ERC-funded job opportunities

Posted on 29 July 2015

The Psychology in Education Research Centre is advertising two positions ...

We are seeking to appoint a two posts to join a 5-year European Research Council-funded project titled, 'Improving Educational Outcomes by Transforming the Selection of Teachers.' The project is led by Professor Rob Klassen, Chair of the Psychology in Education Research Centre in the Department of Education. The project will build understanding of the psychological characteristics (i.e., non-cognitive attributes such as motivation and personality) of successful teachers and will generate new knowledge about the foundation effective teaching. A key goal of the project will be to develop practice-informed innovative teacher selection procedures, using a situational judgment test (SJT) approach.

The posts are:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Psychology in Education:

Please apply via the University's jobs webpage:
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=225403

and

Research Project Coordinator: Psychology in Education:

Please apply via the University's jobs webpage:
https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=225423