The Department of Psychology has a vacancy for a for a tenure-track position as part of the Onsager Fellowship Programme as Associate Professor in Experimental Environmental Psychology, NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, 2022
Qualification Details
The Onsager Fellows programme is designed to attract talented early-career scholars, with documented excellent supervised work, with ambitious research plans to work independently and with the potential for scientific breakthrough.
- You must have the qualifications required for the position of associate professor in the field of psychology, as outlined in the regulations concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research posts
- Your Ph.D., or comparable academic work, must be within the field of environmental psychology (or a comparable relevant field) The PhD should normally have been awarded no more than 5 years prior to the application deadline, excluding law entitled leave.
- (Relevant academic fields include social psychology or economic psychology.)
- You must document relevant basic competence in teaching and supervision at a university/higher education level, as referenced in the Norwegian national Regulations. If this cannot be documented, you will be required to complete an approved course in university pedagogy within two years of commencement. NTNU offers qualifying courses.
- New employees who do not speak a Scandinavian language by appointment is required, within three years, to demonstrate skills in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language equivalent to level three of the course for Norwegian for speakers of other languages at the Department of Language and Literature at NTNU.
- Documented experience in experimental work both from laboratory experiments and field experiments with an environmental psychological focus
- Documented ability to publish in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals
Preferred qualifications
- Documented ability to initiate ground-breaking research
- Documented experience as research coordinator (e.g., as coordinator, work package leader, or principal investigator) in research projects
- Documented experience in supervision of students on different academic levels
- Documented experience from collaboration in interdisciplinary, international research networks will be regarded an advantage (work in international projects)
Personal qualities
- High academic aspirations
- Ability to work in the research group as a constructive team member
- Interest in developing and profiling the research group internationally
- Ability to structure and coordinate research work as an independent researcher
Responsibilities/Job Description
- Initiating, planning, coordinating, conducting, analysing, and publishing experimental studies in the environmental psychological domain, for example about energy choices, food choices, donations to environmental actions, or mobility choices.
- Profiling the research group further in experimental environmental psychological research
- Acquisition of external research funding (especially with a focus on prestigious funding schemes as ERC grants or very competitive national grants)
- Initiation of international collaborations with other experimental environmental psychologists
- Contributing to teaching on the bachelor, master, and PhD level to the courses the group has responsibility for within the conditions of the Onsager fellowship
- Supervision of bachelor, master, and PhD candidates that write their theses within the group’s topics
How to Apply?
Application Method: online_applicationRef. No. -Application Procedure
Your application and supporting documentation must be in English. Publications and other scientific work must follow the application. Please note that your application will be considered based solely on the information submitted by the application deadline. You must therefore ensure that your application clearly demonstrates how your skills and experience fulfill the criteria specified above. If for any reason, you have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in your application, the selection committee will take this into account, recognizing that the quantity of your research may be reduced as a result. Leave to which the candidate is entitled by law or collective agreement shall be excluded when calculating the time since finishing the PhD. Your application must include:
- CV, diplomas, and certificates
- Academic works – published or unpublished – that you wish to be considered during assessment of your application (up to 5 items)
- A description of the scientific works you consider most relevant, which you particularly wish to be factored into the assessment
- A list of your previous works, with details on where they have been published
- A research plan, especially with a focus on developing a profile as an internationally recognized researcher (max 3 pages)
- Details of projects for which you have served as coordinator, work package leader or principal investigator, including information on financing, duration, and scope
- A teaching portfolio, in which your teaching and supervision experience is compiled and presented systematically (See guidelines for applicants: Documentation of teaching qualifications in applications and appointments to academic positions at NTNU)
- Names and contact information for three relevant referees, at least one of whom should be your present or previous leader.
About the Department/Section/Group
Our research and teaching are based on five perspectives: biological, cognitive, social, personality and developmental psychology. We offer a clinical programme in psychology as well as study programmes in the psychology of learning and in work and organizational psychology. We have also three outpatient clinics in which we treat patients as part of the clinical programme. The Department of Psychology is one of seven departments in the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences.Note or Other details
If you think this looks interesting and in line with your qualifications, please submit your application electronically via jobbnorge.no with your CV, diplomas and certificates attached. Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered. Upon request, you must be able to obtain certified copies of your documentation. You can find more information about working at NTNU and the application process here.Contact Details
If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Prof. Christian A. Klöckner, tel. +47 735 91977, e-mail Christian.klockner@ntnu.no. If you have questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Kirsten Sjolte, e-mail kirsten.sjolte@ntnu.no or Kristin Skogen, e-mail kristin.skogen@ntnu.no.