Junior Lecturer / PhD Candidate in Developmental Psychology

Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus, in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities. You will be appointed at the School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI), both in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The School of Psychology currently offers excellent education programmes to approximately 1,800 students. Each year, our Bachelor's programme welcomes approximately 500 new students. The Master's degree programme in Psychology has three specialisations that prepare students for an academic or professional career: Work, Organisation and Health; Behaviour Change; and Healthcare Psychology. The School of Psychology offers two Research Master’s programmes: Behavioural Science (in collaboration with the Behavioural Science Institute) and Cognitive Neuroscience (in collaboration with the Donders Institute). We approach teaching as a team science endeavour and offer lecturers of the future training with a strong basis in both teaching and research. This Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate position is part of this policy.

You will conduct research within the Social Development programme. We conduct fundamental research on social and emotional development, mostly from early childhood to young adulthood. As we are developmental scientists, much of our research is longitudinal. We focus on the influence of social context on development (parents, peers, schools or social media) in interaction with individual differences in traits and behaviours (e.g. emotional regulation). We also conduct applied research on the causes and treatment of psychopathology in young adults (e.g. trauma, addiction, aggression, anxiety, depression), and on children’s and adolescents’ social functioning at schools. Our mission is to contribute new knowledge to developmental science that will also be relevant to clinical and educational practice and that will benefit positive youth development.

The Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) is a multidisciplinary research institute and one of three research institutes in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Radboud University. Our researchers collaborate across the boundaries of psychology, educational science, and communication science. Our mission is to strengthen people through understanding the foundations of human behaviour, by creating synergy between different paradigms and by facilitating craftsmanship, curiosity and connection in scientific research. BSI has seven research programmes covering three major research themes: 1) development and learning, 2) health and mental health, and 3) social processes and communication. BSI conducts fundamental as well as applied/translational research and has excellent facilities and support for lab and field research.