Postdoc Urban Mental Health - City Labs

Postdoc Urban Mental Health - City Labs
Postdoc Urban Mental Health - City Labs

Published	Deadline	Location
yesterday	19 Mar	Amsterdam

Job description
Living city labs are an attractive way to test, create and develop metropolitan solutions that can subsequently be adopted more smoothly and swiftly by all stakeholders involved. And as a result, have a long-lasting impact on solving complex multi-stakeholder societal and metropolitan challenges on a large scale.
About your role
The Centre for Urban Mental Health, together with its partners, want to co-create a project that has different target points, for example, on social cohesion, mental health problems or stress levels. You will play a central role in a variety of collaborative "city lab" projects with stakeholders relating to mental health issues in Amsterdam, including:

• Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) - as part of their Urban Living Lab team: https://www.ams-institute.org/how-we-work/living-labs/ .
• The Municipal health services (GGD) - who have unique data on the effects of changes in public mental health care policies, that are to be analysed.
• and with other stakeholders we are discussing possible collaborative projects.

This position is flexible and open to candidates looking to work part-time (e.g., scientist/practitioners) or who would like to job share. If you think you meet some but not all of the criteria, we still encourage you to apply. You will be expected to set up, run, publish and disseminate the results of these city lab experiments.
Specifications

• max. 8 hours per week
• €3230—€5088 per month
• Amsterdam View on Google Maps

Amsterdam UMC

Requirements
The successful candidate will ideally have:
Skills requirements:

• experience organizing psychological and policy-making interventions;
• affinity with, and interest in, interdisciplinary research;
• a proven capacity to publish in well-respected international scholarly journals;
• experience with advanced statistical techniques like network analyses;
• skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methods;
• the willingness to become an academic mentor to students;
• experience working with non-academic stakeholders and partners.

Education:

• PhD or MD/PhD in a relevant related field, such as Psychology, Psychiatry

Work experience:

• A commitment to teaching and graduate training;
• a strong track record in, and a commitment to, interdisciplinary collaboration;
• Excellent communication skills in English. Dutch is a plus.

Conditions of employment

• We offer a contract for 1 year (12 months).
• We are open to part-time/job share options.
• Salary scale 10: € 3.230 - € 5.088 gross for full-time employment (depending on education and experience).
• In addition, we offer 8.3% end-of-year bonus and 8% holiday allowance.
• Free and unlimited access to our online learning environment GoodHabitz.
• Pension accrual with ABP, of which we pay 70% of the premium.
• Reimbursement of 75% of your public transport costs. Would you rather travel by bike? Then we have a good bicycle scheme.
• An active staff association and the Young Amsterdam UMC association, both of which organize fun (sports) activities and events.

Employer
Amsterdam UMC
The successful candidate will be appointed within the Department of Psychiatry but will become a member of the Centre for Urban Mental Health (UMH) - one of the largest research priority areas of the University of Amsterdam, bringing together unique multidisciplinary research teams. UMH is embedded within three faculties of the University of Amsterdam and is unified by the emerging knowledge and skills available from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Science, together with the Institute for Advanced Study. This collaboration brings together unique multidisciplinary research teams and stakeholders from the Amsterdam region.
UMH aims to find new pathways to improve mental health in the city that take into account the complexities and dynamics of mental health problems and mental health disorders in an urban environment.
UMH is managed by two co-directors, prof. dr. Claudi Bockting and prof. dr. Reinout Wiers, and is supported by a coordinator and an assistant. Most meetings for UMH are held at the Institute of Advanced Study in the centre of Amsterdam.
For ongoing projects at UMH, see our website: www. centreforurbanmentalhealth.com
Additional information
A brief teaching statement and a description of current and future research plans should be submitted together with a curriculum vitae and three confidential letters of reference.
The first round of talks will take place in week 13 (week beginning 27 March 2023). Besides during the publication period, applications will be handled continuously. If the vacancy is filled, it will be closed prematurely.
For more information about this position, you can contact Prof dr. Claudi Bockting, via [email protected] with the subject line "UMH Postdoc City Labs".
If you would like more information about the Centre, please feel free to contact UMH Coordinator, Kimberley Anderson: via [email protected] .
For more information about the application procedure, please contact Tanja Hart, Recruitment Advisor, via [email protected] or via 06-21603178.
A reference check, screening and hiring test may be part of the procedure. Read here whether that applies to you. If you join us, we ask you for a VOG (Certificate of Good Conduct).
Internal candidates will be given priority over external candidates in case of equal suitability.
Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated.

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