Job Postings

The Centre for the Study of Research Training and Impact (SORTI) at the University of Newcastle, Australia is offering a Ph.D. scholarship to commence in second semester 2008. The successful applicant will work, within the Centre, on an ARC funded project with Chief Investigators Allyson Holbrook and Sid Bourke.

The project concerns assessment criteria and reporting practices for Ph.D. and research masters theses. It offers an exceptional opportunity to investigate relationships between formative and summative assessment at these advanced levels of learning. The successful applicant will gain methodological experience of both qualitative and quantitative approaches within a mixed methods design.

For further information about this opportunity, please contact either of the Chief Investigators.

Professor Allyson Holbrook:
email: Allyson.Holbrook@newcastle.edu.au,
phone 61 (2) 4968 6710,
FAX 61 (2) 4968 6713

Professor Sid Bourke:
email: Sid.Bourke@newcastle.edu.au,
phone 61 (2)4968 6706,
FAX 61 (2) 4968 6713

The K.U.Leuven invites applications for a full-time tenured academic position in the domain of pedagogy of teacher education at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

You can find the announcement here.

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Jan Van Damme (jan.vandamme@ped.kuleuven.be)

Candidates are invited to apply online at http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/vacancies.htm

The K.U.Leuven invites applications for a full-time tenured academic position in the domain of "educational psychology" at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.

You can find the announcement here.

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Lieven Verschaffel
(lieven.verschaffel@ped.kuleuven.be)

or Prof. Dr. Jan Van Damme
(jan.vandamme@ped.kuleuven.be)

Candidates are invited to apply online at http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/vacancies.htm

Vacancy within the Learning Sciences Research Institute for an Associate/Fellow at the University of Nottingham.

Applications are invited for the above post from candidates with a proven record of research in human-centred design of computer-based systems for learning. The successful candidate will form part of an interdisciplinary research team involved in the newly established National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing (NBRUH) funded by the Department of Health National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).

more details can be found here

or on the following link: http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancies.php

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a Research Associate and a Research Associate/Assistant

Find full details here.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Organisational Behaviour
Jacobs University (Bremen, Germany)

Applications are invited for the above post at the Jacobs Centre on Lifelong
Learning at Jacobs University. The successful candidate will collaborate on
a project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation on older workers' cognitive
resources (e.g., routinisation) for innovation behaviour. Within a cognitive
psychological framework, we will use quantitative survey and experimental
methods to study the trainability of cognitive resources.

Candidates must have a PhD in psychology, organisational behaviour, or a
related discipline. Experience of experimental research is essential, as are
solid knowledge of cognitive psychology and data analysis including MANOVA
and regression analysis.

Salary will be approx. 36,600 per annum. This post is available from 1 Oct,
2008 and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a maximum period of
three years. Contract renewal is possible.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Christian Stamov Roßnagel,
c.stamovrossnagel@jacobs-university.de.

The Research Centre in Education of the University of Minho in Braga (Portugal) is announcing 5 job openings for researchers holding a PhD, under the Ciencia 2008 initiative of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

For more details see here.

Foreign Researchers Guide in Portugal