Assistant Professor of Social Psychology with a specific focus on self-regulation (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)

The Department of Social, Health and Organizational Psychology has a job opening for an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology with a specific focus on self-regulation. The position is embedded within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and contains a combination of teaching (60%) and research (40%).

The Assistant Professor will teach in domains relevant to the section, and conducts research in the programme of the Self-Regulation Lab. The teaching is implemented in the Bachelor's Psychology, the one-year Master's Social, Health and Organizational Psychology, and the Research Master's Social and Health Psychology. The section also teaches courses at University College Utrecht. The teaching includes (large-scale) lectures, (small-scale) instruction meetings, and (individual) internships and thesis supervision, along with more general activities like coordination and administration.

You will be working in the Self-Regulation Lab , which is one of the three research groups at the department of Social, Health and Organizational Psychology . This lab studies when and how people are able to regulate their own thoughts, actions, and emotions in view of what they are aiming to achieve and specializes in examining how the personal capacity for self-regulation interacts with situational constraints and opportunities. The lab has a central role in the multidisciplinary hub Behaviour and Institutions which is part of Utrecht University’s strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies. Within this collaborative network, we investigate the psychological underpinnings of policy arrangements that aim to support people in making their intended choices relating to health and sustainability. These themes are reflected in the Bachelor's and (Research) Master's teaching the lab coordinates, including the multidisciplinary minor Wellbeing by Design and courses on self-regulation, happiness, health promotion, and nudging.