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

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.

Profile

• You hold a Master’s/Research Master’s degree in Psychology, Behavioural Science or equivalent.
• You have experience in teaching and research, and a strong motivation to excel in both.
• You have very good academic performance, as demonstrated by your grade transcripts and CV.
• You have very good methodological and statistical skills.
• You are willing to conduct, teach and promote open science.
• You have very good writing skills, as evidenced by a writing sample, such as a chapter from your Master’s thesis, a forthcoming or published article, or a presented conference paper.
• You have good English teaching skills. As part of the selection process, you may be invited to a job interview in English. An ability to teach in Dutch would be an advantage.
• You are a proactive and enthusiastic team player.
• You are a competent project manager, flexible and proactive, so that you will be able to finish your PhD thesis before the assigned deadline.

We are

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.

Radboud University
We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This is what unites the more than 24,000 students and 5,600 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!

We offer

• Employment for 1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €2,846 and a maximum of €4,490 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 10). The starting salary will be scale 10, grade 0 (€2,846) or scale 10, grade 1 (€2,979), based on qualifications and relevant experience.
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• It concerns a temporary employment for 6 years.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment  and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 29 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Additional employment conditionsWork and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University’s primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

Would you like more information?

For questions about the position, please contact Yannick Griep, Assistant Professor at yannick.griep@ru.nl. Alternatively, you can contact Ruddy Faure, Assistant Professor at ruddy.faure@ru.nl.

Practical information and applications

You can apply until 30 April 2022, exclusively using the button below. Kindly address your application to Yannick Griep. Please fill in the application form and attach the following documents:

• A letter of motivation.
• Your CV.
• A writing sample in English (e.g. a chapter from your Master’s thesis or a forthcoming paper).

The first round of interviews will take place in week 20. The second round of interviews will take place on Tuesday 7 and Thursday 9 June. You would preferably begin employment on 1 September 2022.
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