Junior Lecturer / PhD Candidate in Developmental Psychology

The School of Psychology and Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) at Radboud University are looking for a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate in Developmental Psychology. You will have teaching duties (40%) and research duties (60%) for a 6-year period. The position will ultimately lead to a PhD degree and university teaching qualification (BKO). We have similar openings in Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Work and Organisational Psychology (see the relevant job advertisements on our website).

Your teaching will involve various activities in the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Psychology, mostly related to 1) tutoring research-related work groups in the first year of the Bachelor’s programme, 2) supervising third-year students during their Bachelor’s degree research projects, which will align with your own PhD research, 3) supervising Master’s theses in the Master’s programme in Healthcare Psychology. Over the course of six years, you will gain diverse teaching skills, including lecturing. This will enable you to obtain your university teaching qualification under the guidance of a mentor.

You will be part of BSI’s Social Development research programme. You will be enrolled as a PhD candidate in the BSI Graduate School, which will support your research and training. Because of the strong link between research and teaching in this position, your research topic should aim to inspire and trigger the interests of students so that you will be able to supervise their Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on your topic.

You will develop your own research topic working closely together with other participants in the Social Development programme. Your research should fit in well with our current research lines and ongoing projects. One excellent option is to link your research to our ongoing longitudinal studies (Nijmegen Longitudinal Study, Kandinsky Longitudinal Study). We are very interested in PhD candidates who will be able to collaborate on these projects. Another possibility is to link up with any of our other projects. Other current projects and priorities are: development of emotion regulation in social context (parents, peers); childhood trauma in family context and social cognitive functioning; effectiveness of personalised behavioural or addiction treatments for young adults; reducing aggression and promoting prosocial behaviour using the Alles Kidzzz intervention; social safety at schools (VOS project, including implicit processes in children and teachers and physical proximity in the classroom); peer influence and adaptive/maladaptive behaviours in various contexts (including social media); development of computerised or non-computerised sociometric methods for the 21st century. We are open to other ideas that align with our current projects and expertise.