PhD Candidate / Junior Lecturer: Economic Theory and Policy

Are you an aspiring researcher, looking to start your academic career off well-prepared? As a PhD Candidate/Junior Lecturer, you will not only conduct research on social sustainability in the socio-economic environment, but you will also teach your knowledge to students in our economics programmes. This way, you will be able to obtain both your PhD and university teaching qualification in one position.
As a PhD/Junior Lecturer, you will have both research (50%) and teaching (50%) duties for six years. You will conduct research on a PhD project supervised by Dr Jana Vyrastekova and Dr Sascha Füllbrunn. This PhD project focuses on Social Sustainability in the socio-economic environment. It aims to advance our understanding of behavioural mechanisms of intergenerational loyalty and willingness to bear the costs of pro-sustainable actions for the benefit of future generations. Your research will contribute to the understanding of social sustainability, for example by the future-self continuity concept as a mechanism for decisions for oneself and others with socio-economic consequences for today and for the future. This project applies a cross-disciplinary and multi-methodological approach, including economic experiments (in the lab, online, or in the field) and existing data analysis (such as data from the Healthy Brain Study and other sources). From a disciplinary perspective, it is rooted in behavioural and experimental economics, but draws on broader insights from social and cognitive sciences as well. A more detailed project description is available upon request from Dr Jana Vyrastekova. Based on this project description, you will develop a more elaborate research proposal in the first year, which will have to be approved by the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Nijmegen School of Management.

Your teaching responsibilities include giving tutorials/lectures in the Bachelor's programmes offered by the Department of Economics and Business Economics, focusing on economics and economic policy and/or methodological courses (mathematics, statistics). Whilst holding this position, you will have the opportunity to develop your teaching skills and obtain a university teaching qualification .