Are you a passionate quantitative researcher eager to tackle societal challenges related to labour migrants’ work and living conditions in the Netherlands and beyond? Do you have the organisational and entrepreneurial skills to help expand RUNOMI’s research partnerships and inspire students through teaching? Join the RUNOMI Labour Migration Research Programme as postdoctoral researcher.
An overview about the job position
Your role will entail:
- Collaborating on scientific publications on the basis of data collected between 2021 and 2024 in seven surveys among labour migrants in the Netherlands that are part of the Kenniscentrum Arbeidsmigranten (KCA) panel on labour migrants. This data provides unique insights into the perspective of labour migrants on themes that are relevant to their lives in the Netherlands, including housing, work, living environment, health, access to facilities, schooling and future prospects, and their language skills.
- Initiating and co-organising thematic knowledge exchange activities connecting academia and practice.
- Playing a central role in the development of competitive funding proposals (national/international) for research partnerships to further develop the RUNOMI track record on labour migration in the Netherlands and beyond.
- Contributing to the departmental education programme by teaching the Dutch-taught Statistics & Methods course in semester 3 (end of January to mid-March).
Who can apply?
- You should have a PhD degree in a relevant social science area or provide proof that your manuscript has been accepted by the manuscript committee.
- You have a pipeline of thematically relevant publications in high-impact international journals.
- You have experience working with relevant software for quantitative data analysis (R, SPSS and/or Stata).
- You have experience with interdisciplinary collaboration activities related to the theme of migrant inclusion, more in particular, to labour migration issues.
- You have experience organising professional networking events with various audiences (scholars, practitioners).
- You have experience writing research grant proposals and/or are motivated to develop these skills further.
- You are comfortable with teaching Dutch- and English-taught courses, and you have effective communication and scientific writing skills in both languages.
- You have proven managerial, leadership and team-working skills.
- You have a flexible, creative mindset and entrepreneurial spirit.
Application deadline :
For further information about the vacancy and how to apply, please visit the following link: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/postdoc-position-runomi-research-programme-on-labour-migration