Postdoc 'Mental Health'

The Sector plans are designed to infuse structural finances into the Universities with a focus on the prioritization of certain research and teaching themes. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) of the UvA will use the Sectorplan-funds to make additional investments in the interdisciplinary theme 'mental health'. Therefore, we are looking for a Postdoc.

Within the theme 'Mental health', the focus chosen by the FMG is on 'prevention', 'early interventions in children and adolescents to reduce the likelihood of developing psychopathology' and 'preventing relapse after initially successful treatment'. Please note that we expect candidates for the Communication Science Postdoc position to use a communication-scientific perspective in their plan.

Do you have interest in the area of 'mental health'? Are you a passionate researcher and do you like to initiate relevant new research? Can you strengthen communication science research on this theme?

The Department of Communication Scienc e studies communication from a social and behavioral perspective. Research and teaching focuses broadly in 4 thematic areas: political communication and journalism; entertainment communication; persuasive communication; and corporate communication.

With more than 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students, Communication Scienc e is among the largest departments at the University of Amsterdam with an outstanding international reputation. The research in the department is embedded in the Amsterdam School of Communication Research/ASCo R . Our research progra m is interdisciplinary and internationally oriented. While qualitative methods are featured in our research, quantitative methodologies are particularly pronounced. In terms of teaching, the College of Communication and the Graduate School of Communication offer a Bachelor program, including a minor track Communication in the Digital Society, a Master program, a European joint degree program in Journalism and a Research Master, the only of its kind in the Netherlands.

What are you going to do

• You will build or expand your own line of research within the above-mentioned interdisciplinary theme of 'mental health', with a central focus on communication science and communication-scientific theories in line with the ASCoR Research program;
• You will present and publish your research to an international scientific audience;
• You are active in the acquisition of research grants;
• You seek (knowledge) exchange and (research) cooperation with professionals on your research area;
• You contribute to the teaching (25% of your time) in the standing program of the Bachelor and Master of Communication Science in Dutch and/or English. The Master program is taught in English only. The Bachelor program has both a Dutch and an English track;
• You make a positive contribution to the organization and cooperation within the program group and the department.