PhD Candidate: Responsible Technology Selection and Usage in Schools

The Behavioural Science Institute (BSI)

is a multidisciplinary research institute and one of the three research institutes in 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. This project will include BSI researchers from the programmes Learning and Plasticity, Communication and Media, and Work, Health and Performance.

iHub brings together a diverse range of academics from across the humanities, social sciences, engineering and natural sciences to tackle urgent questions raised by the increased digitalisation and datafication of science and society. iHub's mission is to better understand the effects of digitalisation on our society and to help steer digital transformations in ways in which public values are central. We seek to do this by:

1. Bringing disciplines from across the humanities, computer and social sciences together to address the challenges raised by digitalisation.

2. Focusing on the core values which are destabilised and need protection in digitalisation processes.

3. Adopting a critical and constructive approach.

You will be employed by the Behavioural Science Institute, within the programme that best fits your background and interests. You will spend two days of your working week at iHub and another two days a week at BSI.