What does enable young people to successfully interact with other individuals in our complex societies? How does structural braindevelopment relate to development of antisocial behavior? And how does brainfunctioning in the lab relate to everyday-life self-regulation and institutional trust?
- Hours: 36 uur per week
- Location: Locatie AMC
- Contract type: training
- Salary: € 2.789 - € 3.536
- React until: 22 May 2023
The project
GUTS: Growing Up Together in Society
The Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS) consortium, funded by a Gravitation grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, includes the collaboration of seven Dutch universities that together investigate how young people successfully navigate and grow up in our complex society.
The goal of this project is to understand how young people grow up in increasingly complex societies and make contributions to society: we will study individual neurobiological development in relation to educational processes, social networks, and societal norms, including antisocial behavior. We will study individual neurobiological development in relation to educational processes, social networks, and societal norms, including antisocial behavior. We will use state-of-the-art designs and methodological advances to develop an integrative framework on self-regulation development and contributions to society that will have explanatory as well as predictive power across multiple domains of functioning in adolescence and early adulthood.
The proposal can be downloaded here.
As a PhD you are part of a sub-team of the GUTS project that operates in Amsterdam, which has the unique aim to include 400 young participants (ages 10-12-years) that are at high risk of developing severe behavioral problems.
During your PhD, you will mainly focus on three themes: 1 structural brain development, 2 correlation between brain functioning in the lab and self-regulation in everyday-life, 3 exploring how low trust in institutions, common among youth displaying antisocial behavior, relates to self-regulation when participating in neuroimaging experiments. You will study these in a cohort of children (10-12 years) that are at high risk of developing antisocial and delinquent behavior.
- Setting up and recruit the high risk antisocial cohort of 400 children in the age range between 10-12, together with the PIs, a postdoc and two other PhDs;
- Collect and analyze (f)MRI and ESM data;
- Access and analyse previously acquired large cohorts data to develop brain signature to be used to predict anti-social behavior in the newly acquired cohort;
- Closely collaborate and coordinate with other member of the GUTS consortium at different seniority levels;
- Publish your findings in open access scientific journals;
- Actively participate in the communication with young people about their perspective on the study an relevant assessments, as well as the clinical and societal impact of your research findings.
About you
We are looking for an enthusiastic, societal engaged researcher at the start of their career, with
- Affinity with the forensic youth population;
- A research master in the field of cognitive neuroscience, medicine or behavioural sciences;
- The ability to function well both in a team as well as independently, and possess good communication skills;
- Proven experience with statistics and statistical software, such as JASP and R;
- Fluent in Dutch and English. Because of the target population and your active role in recruitment of the cohort, only Dutch speaking candidates can apply;
- Experience with fMRI scanning is a plus;
- It is important that you are flexibly available, including evenings and weekends, given that we accommodate the needs of our participants. It goes without saying that these working hours are compensated during the week, as we strongly value a healthy work-life balance.
Our offer
- A contract for the duration of the project (4 years).
- Salary scale OIO: € 2.789 to € 3.536 gross with full-time employment (depending on education and experience).
- Besides a good basic salary you will receive 8.3% end of year bonus and 8% vacation allowance. Calculate your net salary here.
- Free and unlimited access to our online learning environment GoodHabitz.
- Pension accrual with the ABP, of which we pay 70% of the premium.
- (Partial) reimbursement of your public transport expenses. Do you prefer to come by bike? Then we have a good bicycle scheme.
- An active staff association and Jong Amsterdam UMC association, both of which organize fun (sports) activities and events.
Salary increase of 4% effective November 2023
- Salary increase of 4% effective November 2023
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About your workplace
You will work at the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Psychosocial Care, Amsterdam UMC, within the Section Youth at Risk. Within the section Youth at Risk, we focus on children and adolescents at risk of displaying antisocial and delinquent behavior. We mainly operate within the field of Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Our main aim is to study why some children and adolescents display antisocial or delinquent behavior, why most desist and some persist in that behavior, and what (preventive) interventions are needed to help youth at risk to develop into adults that function well in our complex modern society .
You will be appointed at Amsterdam UMC - VUmc, and your working location will be at location AMC, psychiatry building.
Amsterdam UMC has an open culture. This means that we hope that everyone feels welcome in our organization and that we strive to offer equal opportunities to everyone. We therefore cordially invite all interested parties to respond to this vacancy. Check out our approach to diversity and inclusion.
Application
You have until May 22 to submit your application. Applications will be considered only after you complete the attached form: forms
For more information about the application procedure, please visit the Amsterdam UMC website.
Evaluation of candidates will begin immediately, and after about 1 week from the deadline candidates will be informed whether they passed the first round or not. Shortlisted candidates may receive, taking into account candidates’ availability, a short assignment and will be later invited to an interview on site. We foresee a final decision to be communicated within 1-2 months after the first submission date. If no excellent candidate can be identified, we might re-advertise the position. The selection committee is composed by the three PIs: V. Gazzola, L.Nauta-Jansen, and A. Popma.
A reference check, screening and hiring test may be part of the procedure. Read here whether that applies to you. If you join us, we ask you for a VOG (Certificate of Good Conduct).
Internal candidates will be given priority over external candidates in case of equal suitability.
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