Junior Lecturer / PhD Candidate on Antisocial and Transgressive Behaviour

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 embedded in the School of Psychology and the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI), both part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

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

The Behavioural Science Institute  (BSI) is a multidisciplinary research institute and one of the three research institutes of 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.

The mission of BSI's Work, Health, and Performance (WHP) programme is to understand and promote healthy and safe work in a changing society through four interrelated research lines: (1) Psychology of fatigue (i.e. understanding the nature and consequences of mental fatigue, and exploring the role of mental fatigue in the context of work, exercise and social relationships), (2) Hybrid working (i.e. combining on-site and off-site work and sustainable well-being, e.g. in relation to work-life balance, remote leadership, equality/inequality and social inclusion), (3) Safety and moral behaviour (e.g. social responsibility in work environments), and (4) Sedentary work and physical activity (i.e. psychological processes that drive sedentary behaviour and physical activity). For more information, please refer to our WHP website .

The overarching goal of BSI's Behaviour Change and Well-Being (BCW) programme is to promote sustainable behaviour change and well-being through the examination of basic psychological and regulation processes, including inhibition and attention, agency, self-control and mindfulness, implicit and explicit evaluations, psychological defence mechanisms, and the role of sensory input (e.g. smell and touch) in human interaction. These lines of research seek to understand the effect of such fundamental processes on behaviour and well-being in various domains of daily life, including health, sustainability, food choices, prejudice, and social and romantic relationships. For more information, please refer to our BCW website .