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Are you an enthusiastic researcher and lecturer with an empirically oriented background related to digitalisation in work environments? If so, then our vacancy for an assistant professor may be for you! As part of an interdisciplinary team conducting research on the human factor in new technologies, you will focus on how technologies in work environments rearrange existing responsibilities, how employees make decisions in relation to those responsibilities, and how this may lead to both opportunities and challenges.
We are looking for an assistant professor in the Work and Organisational Psychology department with a focus on the relations between work, digitalisation and responsibility. Digitalisation has a profound impact on work tasks and work experience, including for example administrative systems, cybersecurity and privacy, hybrid working, and artificial intelligence. Digitalisation may change perceptions and practices around accountability and responsibility, for example when employees become responsible for managing data, are evaluated based on data, have to decide whether to report a privacy problem, or receive advice from decision support systems based on artificial intelligence. Problematic use of digital technologies, including for example bureaucratisation, the use of 'shadow IT', or biased algorithms, may impact values such as mental health, safety/security, and fairness. To understand the impact of digitalisation and improve the design and implementation of systems, it is crucial to increase our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that determine which digital technologies are used and how. In addition, the focus may be on the felt responsibility for acting upon problems created by digitalisation in work environments, such as phishing e-mails and biased algorithms.
We offer a combined (50%) teaching and (50%) research position. You will contribute to the Work, Health and Performance (WHP) research programme, the Bachelor's degree programme in Psychology (domain: Behaviour and Environment), the Master's degree programme in Work, Organization and Health (WOH), and/or the Research Master's programme in Behavioural Science. You will supervise students in thesis projects at the Bachelor's and Master's levels. Teaching will be in both English and Dutch (if necessary after taking applicable language courses) .
You will be expected to regularly apply for external grant-based funding. You will also be expected to participate in management tasks, including committee memberships, selection committees and recruitment activities. In particular, you are expected to take part in activities related to the theme 'The human factor in new technologies' of the sector plans in the social sciences and Radboud University's interdisciplinary research hub on digitalisation and society (iHub).
Fixed-term contract: 1.5 years, with the possibility of permanency following a positive evaluation.
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