For the Law Centre for Health and Life in the Faculty of Law, we are looking for an enthusiastic student assistant for research support.

What are you going to do

Your core tasks in this position are:

• support in the research of the Centre, particularly of dr. De Ruijter;
  
  
• support in setting up the Centre's organization, sort out mailing lists, contacts;
  
  
• help organize events;
  
  
• help manage social media, podcasts, and further communications;
  
  
• support in the coordination of agendas.
  
  

For this position of lecturer we require that you are:

• interested, or a student in Health Law;
  
  
• interested, or a student in European Law or Public International Law;
  
  
• experience using social science research methods is welcome;
  
  
• available for ideally a year, preferably two years;
  
  
• a clear communicator in English, knowledge of Dutch is considered a welcome addition;
  
  
• able to work independently on projects and play a coordinating role in a team.
  
  

We offer you a challenging and diverse position in an ambituous environment. The UFO-profile of student assistent The candidate will be offered a temporary contract for 12 hours for the duration of one year, starting from 15 July 2022.

The salary amounts to a minimum of €2.310 and a maximum of €2.511 gross per month (salary scale SA, CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten) based on full-time employment (38 hours). The UvA also offers extensive secondary employment benefits, including 8% vacation pay and 8.3% year-end bonus. The CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten applies.

Amsterdam Law School

Committed, responsible and open-minded. This is how we at the Amsterdam Law School view the role of law in a constantly changing (international) society. With over 5,000 students and 550 staff, we are one of the larger law faculties in the Netherlands. We educate legal professionals who know how to apply the law effectively with the aim of actually contributing to solutions for society. We respond to social developments through innovative and pioneering research. In this way, we always keep in touch with society.

You will join the Law Centre for Health and Life, which strives to understand how law, regulation, and policy impact health, and how health in turn impacts law and policy.

Mission

The Law Centre for Health and Life strives to understand how law, regulation and policy impact on health and in turn, how health, including environmental health and technological advances in the field of health, impacts law and policy.

Foundation

The Centre works from a strong foundation in bioethical values and fundamental rights. The Centre's work impacts multiple levels of society by supporting innovative legal solutions at local, national, European and international level that protect vulnerable citizens in the face of public, medical, and industrial powers in the field of health and environmental health challenges.

Approach

The Law Centre for Health and Life is founded on curiosity-driven research, autonomy, and academic freedom. The Centre fosters an inclusive academic environment with diverse disciplinary knowledge and skill sets from a range of legal fields. In our work we connect with other disciplines such as (bio)medicine, environmental sciences, public health and epidemiology, policy and governance, political science, anthropology and sociology, economics, and other fields. The Law Centre for Health & Life seeks new knowledge through the use of multi- and interdisciplinary research methods.

The Law Centre for Health and Life achieves its goals through:

• High impact research that the Centre disseminates to audiences within and beyond the legal world with legal findings relevant to their spheres of work.
  
  
• Societal connection by engaging closely with key stakeholders in the field of health and health-related policy.
  
  
• Education excellence by connecting groundbreaking research to teaching in the newly accredited UvA Master Programme on Health Law and through contributions to (interdisciplinary) health and law programs within the UvA.