[visionlist] Fw: [baps] 3 full-time Tenure Track position(s) with a focus on scientific research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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 3 full-time Tenure Track position(s) with a focus on scientific research in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences 

Three full-time position(s), with a starting rank of lecturer, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (University of Brussels), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, are vacant as Tenure Track positions, effective as from January 1st 2010. 

During the first five years this temporary appointment will have to focus primarily on research, with a teaching assignment limited to no more than 15 ECTS. However, if after that period, the university board positively evaluates the output and performance of the person involved, the position will lead to a permanent position as senior lecturer, at which point the teaching load may be revised. 

Each of the tenure track positions should make prove of high expertise and focus on one (or more) of the following focal research areas, as mentioned by each of the three departments: 

. Educational Sciences 
o Conditions, processes and effects of educational change and innovation 
Relevant topics in this domain include innovation-processes in learning and instruction, interventions effecting professional learning of educators, organization-initiated change or large-scale reform. 
o Community development: an inclusive, relational sense of citizenship Focusing on the interaction between individual and community from a quality of life perspective. The conditions, meanings, opportunities and constraints of living together in diversity are subjects of inquiry. 
o Culture education: from "interaction manners" (the social of cultural) to "art" (the artistic of cultural) 
Including a wide scope of topics in the field of culture and art education. 

. Experimental and Applied Psychology 
o Cognitive or social neuroscience 
Expertise is preferably build in one of the following areas:executive functioning, implicit processes, selective attention, social cognition or affect regulation 
o Signal processing in clinically significant information transfer in somatic and autonomic nervous system 
Expertise is focusing on either the clinical application of psycho-physiologic methods or in the analysis and processing of biological data 
o (Social) exchange processes during work and careers. 
Interpersonal and organizational interactions (e.g. psychological contract, psychological rewards) related to work behavior (e.g. work effort, work motivation) and careers in traditional as well as non-traditional work settings. 

. Clinical and Life Span Psychology 
o Development of personality traits, personality disorders and psychopathology across the lifespan. 
Investigating developmental pathways - based on biological and psychosocial factors - towards vulnerability or protection for psychopathology and considers the evolution of personality characteristics across the life phases. 
o Infant development and parenting. 
Studying different aspects of infant development and parenting, such as parent-infant interactional synchronasition, intersubjectivity, communication development, attachment processes, parenting behavior, parenting styles, motherhood and infanthood representations. 
o Bio-physiological markers of the clinical manifestations of learning disabilities and the implications for interventions. 
Revealing the underlying bio-physiological correlates of the cognitive and behavioral manifestations of learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia) and its subtypes. 

In order to make applications acceptable it is essential that 
. candidates must satisfy the degree requirements i.e. PhD based on a doctoral thesis or an equivalent diploma; this degree should have been obtained after January 1st 2003; 
. candidates must make prove of outstanding scientific research in one of the research areas through research output in peer-reviewed international publications (journals and/or books); 
. strong communicative organisational and teaching skills; 

Moreover, it is recommended to have . experience in acquiring external financial means, settting up research projects and/or coaching PhD students; . international academic experience; The governing language at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is Dutch. However, persons who do not have Dutch as a native language can certainly apply, since a number of courses may be taught in English. Applications must be sent in duplicate by registered letter to the Rector, Prof. Dr. P. De Knop, of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, using the required application forms (see http://www.vub.ac.be/DP/vacature/kan_AP.pdf) together with an overview of the main research activities planned during the Tenure Track assignment. This "research plan" should comprise at least three and no more than five pages in English, together with an English summary of one page. Proofs of competence (e.g. copies of the applicant's diplomas) should also be sent at this stage. 

The deadline for application is October 14th 2009. The date of posting is accepted as the date of receipt. Further information concerning these vacancies can be requested from the Dean (Prof. Dr. R. Pepermans) of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences.


 
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