Full-time academic position in neuropsychology and cognitive (neuro)psychology

Job description

The Faculty of Psychological and educational sciences at the Université libre de Bruxelles, is seeking to fill a full-time vacancy in the areas of teaching-learning and assessment practices in the classroom : school and higher education levels.

The successful candidate has proven experience in one or several of the following domains: analysis of teaching-learning and assessment practices in the classroom, factors of success and failure in higher education, pedagogies of higher education; social or learning inequalities, differentiated/differentiating pedagogy or any other related area.

You will expand and conduct scientific research in the specified domains within the Center for Research in Educational Sciences (ULB).

You will teach various courses in the specified domains at the master level :

"Analysis of classroom practices", "Factors of success and failure in higher education and pedagogies of higher education", "Assessment practices of learning".  This course load will be supplemented and may be increased at a later date to a full load of 120 hours/year.

You supervise master’s theses at the Faculty of Psychological and educational sciences.

Main Research Field : Educational Sciences 

Required educational level: Doctoral degree (PhD) in  Educational Sciences, Psychological and Educational Sciences or related field.

Required Languages :

French : Excellent written and oral mastery

Interested?

For more information, please contact Prof. Christophe Leys (e-mail: christophe.leys@ulb.be  ).

Your application will consist of a Curriculum Vitae(if you wish, a standard CV can be downloaded from the website: https: //www.ulb.be/fr/documents-officiels/emplois-academiques-et-scientifiques-cv-type) and a document completed using the template available at this URL address (https://www.ulb.be/fr/documents-officiels/1e-applic-form-acad-tps-plein89-docx). This template structures your application by including the following elements:

• an application letter 
• a 7,000-character report (4 pages) presenting the applicant’s research activities and a research project, including how these will integrate into ULB’s research teams
• a teaching dossier including a 7,000-character report (4 pages) on the applicant's previous teaching activities and a teaching project for the first five years in this position; these must be relevant to the faculty and to the teaching profiles for the programmes to which the applicant is to contribute
• the names and e-mail addresses of five references (with equal gender representation) who may be contacted by those in charge of evaluating applications.  These references should not have conflicts of interest because of family or emotional ties.
• the successful candidate may be required to present documents attesting to previous work experience to prove 4 years of scientific seniority.

Incomplete applications or applications that do not use the template provided will not be examined by the selection committee.

Equal opportunities policy

ULB's personnel management policy is geared towards diversity and equal opportunities.

We recruit candidates on the basis of their skills, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, origin, nationality, beliefs, disability, etc.

Would you like to be provided with reasonable accommodation in the selection procedure because of a disability, disorder, or illness? Please contact Marie Botty, the person in charge of diversity aspects for the academic and scientific staff (marie.botty@ulb.be). Be assured of the confidentiality of this information.

More details on the ULB gender and diversity policy are available at https://www.ulb.be/en/about-ulb/gender-equality-at-ulb. 

You will find all the regulations relating to academic careers on our site at http://www.ulb.ac.be/emploi/academique.html.

Reference : 2024/A069

Application deadline : 31/10/2024

Start date: January/February 2025