PhD Candidate / Junior Lecturer: International Economics and Development

Are you an aspiring researcher, looking to start your academic career off well-prepared? As a PhD candidate / junior lecturer, you will not only analyse datasets from developing countries to inform the achievement of SDGs, 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 Prof. Natascha Wagner. This PhD project focuses on the analysis of large household datasets from developing countries to inform the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to provide evidence-based policy analyses. You will be expected to work with the primary data compiled by the Nijmegen-based Global Data Lab . The Global Data Lab develops databases and instruments for monitoring and analysing the status and progress of societies across the globe, but with a special focus on developing countries (Area Database ). In its current version the database contains 133 indicators for 131 countries and 1,483 sub-national regions. The aim of the PhD project is to work with the data collected by the Global Data Lab, to further develop and enrich the database, and to contribute to research about economic wellbeing, development, population transitions and public health in relation to environmental and planet wellbeing. Your research will contribute to the understanding of sustainable development in the Global South and the Global North. You will work with existing secondary data and also have the opportunity to collect primary data. While the research is mainly quantitative in nature, you will be expected to apply a cross-disciplinary and multi-methodological approach, including economic experiments (in the lab, online, or in the field), impact studies and/or qualitative assessments. A more detailed project description is available upon request from Prof. Natascha Wagner. 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 .