The fast-paced developments in and the societal impact of AI reveal a greater need for researchers and professionals with more expertise and specific tools to tackle issues related to gender, diversity and intersectionality. This concerns, for example, awareness of cultural-organisational changes necessary to make AI  a more diverse and inclusive science and industry.

It also concerns critical reflection on how AI concepts and techniques shape our scientific and everyday views of ourselves and others, and how these views can become distorted by biases in the algorithms that we use for analyses and applications. It has become evident that AI technologies are prone to having discriminatory and exclusionary effects unless researchers and professionals actively work to counteract these problems. For instance, an AI technology that is beneficial for one group of people (usually a majority group) may be harmful to another group of people; and this harm is more likely to fall on minorities because they are underrepresented in the training data and not involved in critical design phases and choices. It is vital that AI students, researchers, and professionals develop critical epistemologies and learn about these issues and develop ways to promote more equitable and inclusive uses and design of AI. To do justice to the complexity of these issues, it is important to approach the different categories of difference such as gender, race / ethnicity, sexuality, class, religion, age and ability/disability in an interdisciplinary manner and from an intersectional perspective.

We seek a candidate who can strengthen the links between AI, psychology and gender and diversity, and is able to achieve a high standard in teaching and research in this area. You will be expected to teach a course on 'Bias in AI' in the Master’s degree programme in Artificial Intelligence and an introduction course on 'Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality in Psychology' in the Bachelor’s degree programme in Psychology.

You will also be involved in the educational programme of the Gender and Diversity Studies group, who offer several minors and are developing an interfaculty Master’s degree programme on Gender and Intersectionality. Furthermore, you will initiate, conduct and supervise interdisciplinary research at the interface of gender, diversity and intersectionality and AI or cognitive science. You will be expected to regularly apply for, and obtain, external grant-based funding.

• Thorough knowledge of gender, diversity and intersectionality.
• Proven research competence and key publications in the area of gender, diversity and intersectionality.
• Expertise in and/or affinity with artificial intelligence, psychology and cognitive science.
• Ability and willingness to develop an independent research line at the interface of gender, diversity and intersectionality and AI or cognitive science.
• A university teaching qualification or equivalent experience with teaching, course coordination and student supervision.
• Ability to teach an introduction level course on gender, diversity and intersectionality to psychology students and a specialized course on Bias in AI to artificial intelligence students.
• Ability to think and work beyond disciplinary boundaries.
• The potential to generate research funding from national and international funding agencies.
• An excellent command of written and spoken English.
• A very good command of Dutch or the willingness to learn Dutch in two years.

Fixed-term contract: Tenure track (4 years).

• Employment: 0.8 - 1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €3,807 and a maximum of €5,211 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 11).
• In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• Duration of the contract: you will be appointed for a four-year period; after positive evaluation, you may be offered a permanent contract.
• The intended start date is between 1 October 2021 and 1 January 2022.
• 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.

Additional employment conditions
Work 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.

You will be part of the chair group of Gender and Diversity, headed by Prof. Marieke van den Brink. The chair group is part of the Radboud Social and Cultural Research institute in which the disciplines of sociology, anthropology and development studies have joined forces.

You will closely collaborate with the schools of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, and particularly with the chair group of Computational Cognitive Science (chair holder: Iris van Rooij), focusing on the reflection on AI in empirical and interdisciplinary research and its societal impact.

The research in this position will align with the research programme of the Gender & Diversity group embedded in the Radboud Social Cultural Research institute (RCSR). Scholars from the RSCR focus on multidisciplinary and comparative research questions to describe and explain developments in inequality, cohesion and modernization in both Western and non-Western societies. RSCR also houses research groups from Sociology and Cultural anthropology and development studies.