Junior Lecturer / PhD Candidate on Antisocial and Transgressive Behaviour

Are you an aspiring researcher looking to start off your academic career well-prepared? As a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate, you will not only be contributing to fundamental scientific knowledge in the domain of psychology but also convey this knowledge to students in the Psychology programme. In this way, you will be able to obtain both your PhD and university teaching qualification as part of your position.

The School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) at Radboud University are looking for a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate to fill a position on antisocial and transgressive behaviour shared by the departments of Work and Organisational Psychology and Social and Cultural Psychology. As a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate you will have research duties (60%) and teaching duties (40%) for a 6-year period. The position will lead to a PhD degree and a university teaching qualification (BKO). We have similar openings for a Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate in Methods and Statistics and in Developmental and Clinical Psychology (see the 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 in Psychology, 2) supervision of third-year students during their Bachelor's degree research projects, which will align with your own PhD research, 3) supervision of Master's theses in the Master's degree specialisation in Work, Organisation and Health (WOH) and in the Master's degree specialisation in Behaviour Change (BC). Over the course of six years, you will gain a diverse range of teaching skills, including lecturing courses in both social and organisational psychology. This will enable you to obtain your university teaching qualification under the guidance of a mentor.

Given its shared nature, this Junior Lecturer/PhD Candidate position will be part of two BSI research programmes, namely Work, Health and Performance (WHP) and Behaviour Change and Well-being (BCW). You will be enrolled in the BSI Graduate School, which will support your research and research training. Because of the strong link between research and teaching in this position, your research topic should attract students so that you will be able to supervise Bachelor's and/or Master's thesis projects on your topic. Your research should contribute to the WHP mission to understand and promote healthy and safe work in a changing society and to the BCW mission to examine basic regulation processes underlying sustainable behaviour change and well-being. Your research should specifically focus on antisocial and transgressive behaviour in the workplace. This refers to actions that harm or lack consideration for others' well-being and that endanger psycho-social safety at work (e.g. harassment, bullying, abuse, or inappropriate or deviant behaviour). In your project, you should strive to develop novel conceptualisations, provide fresh empirical perspectives, and advance methodological approaches that can enrich our understanding of antisocial and transgressive behaviour. You will have freedom and independence to steer the project in the direction you find most suitable and interesting, as long as it stays within the topic of antisocial and transgressive behaviour. For instance, you may decide to study this topic through (but not limited to) one or more of the following questions:

• What are the antecedents and consequences of antisocial and transgressive behaviour, at the individual, dyadic, group, and organisational levels?
• How does antisocial and transgressive behaviour manifest itself, can we detect events (triggers) and prevent both its emergence and aggravation over time?
• How does antisocial and transgressive behaviour become routinised in organisational contexts, and which individual, dyadic, group, and organisational factors can facilitate or mitigate that process?
• Which policies and practices can best prevent and reduce the enactment of antisocial and transgressive behaviour at micro, meso and/or macro levels?

Because this is a position shared by the two research programmes, we expect you to integrate perspectives and tools from both social and organisational psychology in order to promote collaborations between the two fields. To this end, you should be able to study short-term and/or long-term changes in antisocial and transgressive behaviour using a combination of state-of-the-art quantitative methods (e.g. surveys, lab-research and ESM) and potentially qualitative methods (e.g. focus groups and interviews), coupled with advanced statistical analyses and open sciences practices, to deliver high-quality scientific output with applied value.