Ref. No.: UKFHS/232912/2024-1

INVITING APPLICATIONS FOR A POSITION OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PSYCHOLOGY

The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the Charles University opens a selection procedure for the position of assistant professor in psychology at the Department of Psychology and Life Sciences.

Position description:

- Part-time employment (0.5 full-time equivalent); initially a fixed-term employment contract;

- Active cooperation on developing the curriculum in psychology within the study programme Liberal Arts and Humanities and other fields of study associated with the Department of Psychology and Life Sciences;

- Teaching courses in English up to the extent compatible with a half-time position, supervision and opponency of student qualification theses in the Liberal Arts and Humanities programme and other courses offered by the Department of Psychology and Life Sciences; participation in state examinations, thesis defences, and other activities of the Department of Psychology and Life Sciences;

- Participation in research activities of the Department of Psychology and Life Sciences.

Requirements:

- Completed doctoral studies in psychology or a related field (or shortly before completion);

- Willingness and documented previous experience in creating and teaching courses in various basic disciplines of psychology;

- Ability to teach courses, and to supervise and examine students in English;

- Documented professional specialisation in psychology; we especially welcome focus on research in cognition and neuroscience; health psychology or developmental psychology;

- Publication record in psychology;

- Experience with empirical research in psychology, experience with grant application process;

- Previous experience with teaching and research on a university level; we especially welcome experience with teaching methodological courses or statistical analysis.

Required documents:

- A structured curriculum vitae;

- A list of own publications which appeared in the past 10 years;

- Cover letter outlining the candidate’s professional specialisation and vision of future academic and scientific development;

- One full-text example of own published research (journal article, book chapter, manuscript);

- Annotation and syllabus of one course in some area of psychology which the candidate could offer to teach in the BA programme in Liberal Arts and Humanities;

- A copy of certificate attesting to the highest completed level of education.

Commencement of employment: 1 July 2024

Applications marked Ref: UKFHS/232912/2024-1 and with the above documents should be sent digitally by 26 May 2024 to the following e-mail address: martina.korinkova@fhs.cuni.cz.

For any further questions regarding the application process, contact the head of Department of Psychology and Life Sciences, FHS UK, doc. Jitka Lindová, Ph.D.: jitka.lindova@fhs.cuni.cz.

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Prague, 26 April 2024

doc. Věra Sokolová, M.A., Ph.D.

the Dean of the faculty