FPCEUP|BI PROJETO "Climatic"|REFª 2022/42

Updated: over 1 year ago
Deadline: 25 Dec 2022

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ONE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE PROJECT “CIDADANIAPELOCLIMA: CRIANDO PONTES ENTRE CIDADANIA E CIÊNCIA PARA A ADAPTAÇÃO CLIMÁTICA” (CLIMACTIC)” - REF.ª NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000071, AT THE FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTO

The Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP) hereby opens this Call for Applications for one research grant for the project “CidadaniaPeloClima: Criando Pontes entre Cidadania e Ciência para a Adaptação Climática” (ClimActiC) (ref.ª NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000071), financed by NORTE 2020 – Programa Operacional Regional do Norte and developed at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPCEUP) of the University of Porto in the Research Group on Social Psychology.

1. Research field / Scientific area: Psychology

2. Admission requirements:

To apply for the research grant, applicants must comply with the following requirement, for which documentary evidence must be provided:

  • Be a student enrolled in a master program in the area Psychology, or be the holder of a Graduation degree in Psychology enrolled in a non‐academic degree course integrated in the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units, a requirement to be duly proven at the time of signing the contract.
  • b) Research experience in the field of Experimental Psychology.

    If the candidate holds a degree awarded by a foreign higher education institution, it must be recognized by a Portuguese higher education institution, in accordance with the provisions of article 25 of Decree-Law no. 66/2018 of 16 August, which approves the legal regime for the recognition of academic degrees and higher education diplomas awarded by foreign higher education institutions and Article 4 (2) (e) of Decree-Law no. 60/2018 of 3 August, and any formalities established therein be fulfilled up to the date of the contracting act.

    3. Preferred requirements:

  • Master Degree in Psychology, mention Clinical and Helath Psychology, with the dissertation in a topic relevant to the area of Experimental Psychology and/or Ecological or Environmental Psychology;
  • Documented research experience using quantitave methods;
  • Documented experience in the preparation of experimental tasks, including the selection of stimuli, task design, and task programming, preferably in online format;
  • Documented experience in data analysis using software such as R, RStudio, JASP, MATLAB, SPSS, among others.
  • Documented proficiency in English (the submission of samples of original written text in English will be accepted as documentary evidence).
  • 4. Work Plan:

    The candidate will develop several activities within the scope of the project which include:

  • Review of the literature on the topics relevant to the project;
  • Collaboration in the conceptualization of empirical studies;
  • Translation and adaptation of relevant scales to Portuguese;
  • Adaptation of experimental paradigms;
  • Implementation of studies for online or lab-based data collection;
  • Data collection and the update of a permanent record of the methodology used and session logs;
  • Collaboration in the analysis of the data and the preparation of research reports;
  • Contribution to the writing and revision of scientific articles to be submitted to international journals;
  • Participation in the general activities of the research group as deemed appropriate.
  • 5. Applicable Legislation and Regulations:

    The present call is governed by the FCT Regulations for Research Fellowships approved by the Regulation nº n.º 950/2019, the Research Fellowship Holder Statute (approved by Law no. 40/2004, of 18th of August, in its current version), the University of Porto Regulations for Research Fellowships approved by the Regulation n.º 184/2021 (published in the Series II of the DR, of 3rd March), the Decree-Law No. 66/2018 of 16 August (Legal regime for recognition of academic degrees and higher education diplomas awarded by foreign higher education institutions) and the Code of Administrative Procedure (CPA), approved by Decree-Law No. 4/2015, of January 7.

    6. Workplace:

    The workplace will be at Center for Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto, under the scientific supervision of Prof. São Luís Castro and Doctor Alessandra S. Souza.

    7. Duration:

    The scholarship will last for 6 months. The contract, in an exclusive basis, can be renewed for equal or different periods depending on institutional need and the availability of financial resources, until the maximum duration of the project.

    8. Monthly maintenance allowance amount:

    The monthly maintenance allowance is 1.144,64€, according to FCT. Payment will be made by FPCEUP by bank transference. In addition, the grant holder will be covered by personal accident insurance.

    9. Evaluation methods:

    Curriculum Assessment (CA) and, if so intended by the jury, an interview (I) to the three best classified candidates of the CA. The final classification, on a scale of zero to 100, will be obtained using the following formula: 0.8 x CA+ 0.2 x I.

    If no interviews take place, the final classification will correspond to that of the CA.

    The CA will consider the following evaluation points and ratio criteria:

  • Dissertation in the topic of Experimental or Environmental or Ecological Psychology and the classification obtained (25%)
  • Experience in experimental research (25%)
  • Experience in preparing experimental tasks (25%)
  • Experience in data analysis (20%)
  • English proficiency (5%)
  • In the interview, if it takes place, aspects related to the previous research experience and motivation for the scientific work of the candidates (20%) will be evaluated.

    In case of withdrawal of the selected candidate, he/she will be replaced by the next one in the approved final ranking list, which for all purposes constitutes the recruitment reserve list and which will have the duration until February 2023. In the event that none of the candidates demonstrate that they have the profile indicated for carrying out the work plan, the jury reserves the right not to award the scholarship to the competition.

    10. Selection panel:

    Chairperson: Professora Doutora São Luís Castro, Full Professor at FPCEUP.

    Members:

    1st Member: Professora Doutora Isabel Rocha Pinto, Associate Professor at FPCEUP;

    2nd Member: Professora Doutora Maria Adelina Barbosa Ducharne, Assistant Professor at FPCEUP;

    3rd Member: Doutora Alessandra da Silva Souza de Carvalho, Principal Investigator at CPUP/FPCEUP;

    4rd Member: Professora Doutora Isabel Macedo Pinto, Associate Professor at FPCEUP.

    11. Disclosure of the results:

    Final results will be communicated by email to the address provided by the candidates in the application form (CV/Motivation letter).

    In compliance with the provisions of the Article 121 of the Code of Administrative Procedure (“Código do Procedimento Administrativo”), after being notified, candidates have 10 working days to submit a formal rebuttal.

    The final decision must be taken within a maximum period of 60 working days after the conclusion of the preliminary hearing of interested parties or of the public consultation.

    12. Submission of applications:

    The Call for Applications is open until August 2, 2022.

    Applications must be submitted exclusively on the FPCEUP website, at the following address: https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/cnt_cand_geral.concursos_list (Ref.ª 2022/42). The following documents are mandatory, under penalty of exclusion from the Call:

  • Motivation Letter;
  • Curriculum vitae;
  • Copy of the Graduation Certificate or Diploma with indication of the final classification in the course and the classification in the graduation;
  • Documents proving the required experience;
  • Other documents that the candidate may deem relevant to assess their merit (maximum of 4 documents).
  • Declaration of eligibility
  • Documents must be attached directly to the application message, without links to external platforms/drives.

    In order to guarantee the reading of all documents, the preferred recording format is the Portable Document Format (.pdf). Files must be named with the candidate's first and last name and must not exceed 5 MB, as a whole. These can be compressed in .zip format.

    13. The University of Porto actively promotes a policy of non-discrimination and equal access so that no applicant may be privileged, benefited, damaged, or deprived of any right or exempted from any duty due to ancestry, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, family situation, economic situation, education, origin or social condition, genetic heritage, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic disease, nationality, ethnic origin, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions, and trade union membership.



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