Onderzoeksmedewerker Lerarentekort

Een interdisciplinair team onderzoekt hoe universitair docenten een rol kunnen spelen in de keuze van studenten voor het docentschap in het vo en hoe studenten naar dit docentschap als beroepsperspectief kijken op basis van de volgende onderzoeksvragen:

1. Hoe kijken universitair docenten naar het docentschap in het voortgezet onderwijs als beroepsperspectief voor hun studenten? (interviews met focusgroepen)
2. Welke overwegingen noemen studenten bij het docentschap als beroepsspectief? Zijn er verschillen per schoolvak? (interviews met focusgroepen)
3. Helpt een schoolbezoek voor een tweedejaars Bachelor-student als stimulans voor het docentschap te kiezen? (vragenlijst die motivatie meet: kwantitatieve analyse / open vragen: kwalitatieve analyse met open coding)

Jouw takenpakket:

• Je organiseert en leidt focusgroep-interviews met respectievelijk docenten en studenten van bacheloropleidingen die aansluiten op schoolvakken.
• Je analyseert, samen met de rest van het onderzoeksteam, welke beelden over het beroep van de leerkracht in de data naar voren komen. Hiervoor volg je een vastgelegd wetenschappelijk stappenplan dat we je geven.
• Eventueel: je schrijft mee aan (wetenschappelijke) artikelen over het lerarentekort.
• Eventueel: je presenteert, samen met andere leden uit het onderzoeksteam, resultaten binnen professionaliseringsnetwerken van de Universiteit Utrecht.

Het onderzoeksteam bestaat uit dr. Marije van Braak (Taal en Educatie), dr. Ralph Meulenbroek (Natuurkunde), dr. Jimmy van Rijt (Taal en Educatie), dr. Monique Verhoeven (Onderwijswetenschappen), dr. Marijke de Belder (vakdidactiek Nederlands) en dr. Kila van der Starre (Nederlands). Dit onderzoek wordt gefinancierd door de Graduate School of Teaching van de Universiteit Utrecht.

PhD Position in Virus-Glycan Interactions

Your tools:

• Cutting-edge Techniques: You’ll be at the forefront of viral research, utilising advanced methods such as glycan- and tissue-arrays, and microscopy to unravel virus-host interactions.
• Collaborative Network: You work closely with multidisciplinary teams, blending insights from chemical biology, virology, and national collaborators at the Department of ViroScience, Erasmus MC, to drive innovative research.

Your impact:

• Knowledge: You lead research that explores how different viruses evolve to bind species-specific glycans, contributing to the global understanding of tissues and species specificity.
• Preparedness: You play a pivotal role in developing advanced in vitro models, helping to prepare for emerging viral threats.

If you're ready to solve virus-glycan interaction puzzles and shape the future of novel in vitro models, we invite you to join our team and take on this exciting opportunity to make groundbreaking discoveries.

Assistant Professor in Paleomagnetism & Rock Magnetism

As our new assistant professor, you are expected to develop your own rigorous and novel research line that will be complementary to the ongoing work of your UU colleagues in general, and in the Paleomagnetic laboratory Fort Hoofddijk in particular.

In the last decades, the paleomagnetic laboratory Fort Hoofddijk has evolved into a world-class facility, famous for its fundamental contributions to paleomagnetic methodology and its applications to studies of the Earth's magnetic field, stratigraphy, and tectonics. Ongoing research focuses on magnetostratigraphy and geomagnetic polarity time scales, global (plate) tectonic reconstructions, short-term behaviour of the Earth’s magnetic field, and advancing magnetic microscopy. We are especially looking for candidates with complementary expertise and a proven track record in e.g. fundamental paleomagnetism, rock magnetism, or environmental magnetism. Your expertise serves as a corner stone for (improving) laboratory instrumentation and developing new technologies, as you will have a role in keeping Fort Hoofddijk at the forefront of paleomagnetic laboratories worldwide.

You will play an essential role in education by inspiring students and developing innovative courses. It is expected that you will participate in teaching in both our undergraduate (e.g. elementary Earth Sciences, geological fieldwork, and/or supportive courses like Mathematics, Chemistry, or Physics) and our graduate programmes (e.g. Paleomagnetism and Geomagnetism), as well as in supervising graduation projects. On average, the department of Earth Sciences targets at equal contributions to educational activities and research for all its tenured academic staff, resulting in (up to) 40% BSc/MSc teaching duties, 40% research, and 20% of other activities (management tasks, committee work, etc.).

You will also contribute to the supervision of early career scientists such as PhD candidates and postdocs. Moreover, you will also have a role in mentoring our technicians and visiting researchers.

Medewerker Student Affairs

Vanuit het team Student Affairs beantwoorden we vragen van (internationale) studenten over onder andere cursusinschrijving, roosters, bijvakken, uitwisseling en afstuderen. Daarnaast houden we ons onder andere bezig met het registreren van studieresultaten, de examenadministratie en de registratie van besluitvorming door de examencommissie. Student Affairs is onderdeel van de afdeling Onderwijs- en Studentzaken (OSZ).

Als lid van het team Student Affairs spring je bij op allerlei werkzaamheden en ben je daarin flexibel inzetbaar, maar je hebt ook een aantal eigen verantwoordelijkheden. Zo voer je resultaten in, draag je zorg voor de administratieve afhandeling van examens en ben je medeorganisator van de diploma-uitreikingen.

PhD Position on Visioning a Circular Society

How can societies deal with the impacts of environmental damage? How to access the resources needed for society and economy? And, more urgently, how can societies limit their impact on the wider planet? One widely agreed-upon necessity is the transition to a circular society, a society that is not extractive but that systematically re-uses its resources. In this PhD, you will contribute to visions of a circular future.

Our multi-disciplinary project ‘Accelerating the Circular Transition’ (ACT!) develops a systemic approach to accelerate the fair transition to a circular society in The Netherlands (and beyond). It will co-create an integrated approach to manage this complex transition, building a toolbox of shared visions of a circular society with societal wellbeing at the centre. For this, the consortium exists of a large variety of scientific researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, as well as stakeholders from all parts of Dutch society, including (national, regional and local) government, industry, and local NGO’s.

As a PhD candidate in this project, you will help construct, define, and refine visions of a desirable circular futures, which are key for any successful transition. After all, without an attractive vision of the future, no large-scale policy will ever be successful. Using a futuring approach, you will start with an exploration of the current existing visions for (a circular society in) the Netherlands: how do people imagine the circular future? How are material flows organised? But also, how do people live in these futures? How do their inhabitants imagine the ‘good life’: what do they strive for, how do they become successful, and how is material use embedded in their ideas of a good life?

In your research, you will investigate visions of the circular future from various worldviews, based on both existing images of futures for the Netherlands (and beyond), as well as already existing ‘circular’ communities and lifestyles. Based on this, you will develop research-backed visions to work towards with the societal and scientific partners in ACT!, which can then be refined in conversation with a large variety of stakeholders.

The output of your investigations will feed into a (limited) set of supported visions of a circular society that will need to be described and characterised further by other parts of the project, connecting the visions to analyses of the demand for services in society: how will society will live and work in these future worlds? In parallel, you will study existing Dutch communities that embody an explicit or implicit commitment to a circular society and the visions developed, which can be seen as an examples or living labs for the transformation towards a circular society.

An interdisciplinary team of leading researchers in the circular economy (Ernst Worrell), futuring (Jeroen Oomen), and worldviews (Peter Ben Smit) will guide you in all aspects of the process. This is both in terms of the material constraints of a circular economy and its social realities. The results of the research will lead to the completion of a PhD thesis. Through this research activity you will become embedded in the exciting consortium and project, as well as the broader fields of circular economy/society and futuring research. You can develop yourself through participation in congresses, workshops, trainings for doctoral students, and a vibrant group of PhD candidates in ACT! and at the Copernicus Institute.

We welcome applicants from any background and any academic disciplines who feel they can add an important perspective to this important topic. Command of Dutch is essential to work with the many stakeholders in the project and Dutch circular economy policy environment.