Junior Lecturer / PhD Candidate: Methods & Statistics in Psychology

Are you an aspiring researcher, looking to start your academic career off well-prepared? As a Junior Lecturer/PhD candidate, you will not only strengthen our research into psychology with a strong methodological and statistical component, but you will also teach your knowledge to students at the school of Psychology. This way, you will be able to obtain both your PhD and university teaching qualification in one position.

The School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) at Radboud University are looking for a Junior Lecturer in Methods & Statistics/PhD Candidate. You will have teaching duties (40%) and research duties (60%) for a 6-year period. The position will lead to a PhD degree and University Teaching Qualification.

Your teaching will be in the methods and statistics curriculum of the Bachelor's degree programme in Psychology and will include teaching workgroups and delivering lectures. You will also supervise third-year students in their Bachelor's research project, which will align with your own PhD research. Over the course of your 6-year appointment, you will gain various experiences in teaching, including lecturing for large groups. This will enable you to obtain your University Teaching Qualification (BKO) under the guidance of a mentor.

We aim to link teaching and research as much as possible. We are therefore looking for a candidate who will strengthen our Methods and Statistics teaching team, and conduct substantive PhD research in developmental, clinical, social or work/organisational psychology, including a strong methodological and/or statistical component. Examples are: structural equation modelling; multilevel modelling; longitudinal analyses; dyadic data analyses; mixed models; ecological momentary assessments; item response theory; stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOM); actor-partner interdependence models; and psychometric assessment. You will work together with our methods and statistics teaching team (Jules Ellis, Inge Rabeling). Your research will be embedded in one of the BSI research programmes Social Development; Work, Health and Performance; Behaviour Change and Wellbeing; or Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment. In close collaboration with your supervision team, you will develop a research proposal on a substantive topic of your choice, with a strong methods/statistics component. 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 and knowledge about methods and statistics aim to inspire and trigger the interests of students so that you can supervise Bachelor's theses on topics of your own research.