Do you want to find answers to how consumption and lifestyles contribute to the origins as well as solutions for major societal challenges relating to health and sustainability? Are you passionate about building bridges between different academic disciplines and professionals? Will you share your enthusiasm with students and contribute to their development in the field of consumption and healthy lifestyles? Then we invite you to join our team!We seek a junior lecturer who contributes to education tasks of the
Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles group. The education of the chair group is positioned in Bachelor programs Business and Consumer Studies, Master Consumer studies, the bachelor Health and Society, master Communication, Health and Lifesciences, the bachelor and master Nutrition and Health programs, and the new master Data Science for Food and Health. Your primary tasks are to support course coordinators in their courses (e.g.: course organization, communication to students about the course, supervising working groups and feedback on assignments, grading, lecturing etc) and to supervise BSc theses.
This position will be part of the Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles chair group. This is a young and ambitious chair group keen to unravel the origins of healthy and sustainable consumption and lifestyle practices. These behavioural insights are used to design, evaluate and implement strategies to enable healthy and sustainable lifestyles. These strategies include upstream environmental and downstream behavioural interventions acknowledging that individual behaviour is socially embedded and arises in specific times and places. The work of the group is characterized by an inter- and transdisciplinary approach where different academic disciplines (e.g., sociology, psychology, public health, epidemiology and geography) and professional fields (policy, practice) collaborate.