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Assistant Professor Health Behaviors Research for Cancer Prevention Job no: 526978 Work type: Teaching & Research Faculty Senior management: Vice President for Research Department: Fralin Biomedical Res. Institute Location: Roanoke, Virginia Categories: Research / Scientific Job Description Virginia Tech seeks to recruit a health behaviors researcher whose work focuses on the initial prevention of cancer and/or its relapse for a tenure track faculty position at the assistant professor level. The successful candidate should utilize contemporary approaches including behavioral analysis, behavioral economics, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, genetics, computation and/or imaging to study important issues of decision-making and/or interventions to modify behaviors that may contribute to the initial development of cancer and/or its relapse. The study of interventions that address the contributions of diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking, and/or exposure to other...

The Department of Psychology at Northern Illinois University (NIU) seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track assistant professor in neuroscience and behavior. Applications are invited from individuals that use modern neuroscience or physiological techniques to investigate the basis of developmental, cognitive, or social phenomena. Successful candidates are expected to demonstrate the potential to establish an independent research program that will provide translational learning experiences for students and will attract extramural funding. In addition, the candidate is expected to contribute to teaching undergraduate and graduate classes within their area of expertise. Finally, the candidate will be involved in mentoring students through capstone, MA, and PhD projects. Experience working with diverse populations of students as well as evidence of inclusive and engaging teaching practices are highly desirable. Additional responsibilities include service to the...

The   Equity in Early Education Postdoctoral (E3) Fellowship Program   trains the next generation of scholars to conduct research toward equitable, impactful, and sustainable early childhood care and education systems. Application open : October 2, 2023 Application deadline : November 17, 2023 Start date : Flexible, summer-fall 2024 Duration : 2 years Eligibility : U.S. citizen or permanent resident; Must have doctoral degree prior to start date Why the E3 fellowship program? To reduce racial and economic inequalities in early childhood, the next generation of scholars will need to collaborate with communities and educational partners to co-produce a base of interdisciplinary scientific evidence.  This program, funded by the   Institute of Education Sciences (IES)   and housed at the   Stanford Center on Early Childhood , is designed to train fellows to conduct work that is  equity-focused —centering systemic equity as an outcome...

Virginia Tech Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research Opportunity for Postdoctoral and Research Faculty Positions   The Virginia Tech Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research (VTAC/CAR) ( https://www.vtcar.science.vt.edu/ ), within the Clinical Science program in the Department of Psychology, in partnership with Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) ( https://www.ext.vt.edu ) and Commonwealth Autism ( https://www.commonwealthautism.org/ ), is seeking candidates for two positions as postdoctoral associate, senior research associate, or research scientist, depending upon level of experience. The positions will involve work in the catchment areas of Dickenson and Wise Counties to provide diagnostic autism assessments, offer trainings/consultations to area educators, and to conduct effectiveness research on rural capacity building of autism services. Mentorship will be provided by the director of the VT Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research in...

Position Overview The Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University invites applications for an early-career scholar with a focus on Psychological Science and Racial and Health Disparities. This position is part of The Ohio State University’s Provost’s Tenure-Track Fellow to Faculty Program. The Provost’s Tenure-Track Fellow to Faculty Program assists early career scholars to transition to the tenure track. Provost Fellows receive research funding and participate in career development programs to support their transition to assistant professor and their long-term career success. Provost Fellows focus time on research for up to two years allowing for an in-depth start on scholarship with limited teaching requirements (Fellows have the option to teach one course per year if they choose), participate in the activities within the Department of Psychology, and have a designated faculty mentor. Following the two-year fellowship period, which is an instructor rank...

Assistant Professor - Computational Basis of Behavior (Department of Psychology)   University of California San Diego   Position overview Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: A reasonable salary range estimate for this position is $99,100-$121,700. ​​ The posted UC Academic salary scales https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/compensation/2023-24-academic-salary-scales.html set the minimum pay as determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See the following table for the salary scale for this position https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acad-salary-scales/t1.pdf. The base salary range, from the salary table, for this position is $74,600-$97,200. ​ “Off-scale salaries” and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive conditions,...

The Yale Psychology Department is pleased to announce this postdoctoral associate position in honor of Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema that has been endowed by her husband, Richard Nolen-Hoeksema. Each Susan Nolen-Hoeksema Postdoctoral Associate in Integrative Psychology is for a two-year period, with appointments staggered such that only one position turns over in a given year.  Eligible applicants must have a Ph.D. in Psychology or a related field by June 30 of the year in which the appointment begins.  Applications in any area of psychology are encouraged, especially from candidates with research interests that are integrative across areas and levels of analysis and applicable to one or more domains of psychopathology or its treatment (i.e., areas in which Professor Nolen-Hoeksema took special interest).  Applicants for the initial position, to begin July 1, 2024, should identify one or more Yale faculty members with whom they desire to work during...

Position Description The Department of Psychology at Yale University invites applications for a tenure-track, open-rank faculty appointment in the area of quantitative methods beginning July 1, 2024. We are interested in scholars who can help advance social science research in any subfield of psychology (social, cognitive, developmental, clinical, neuroscience) by developing and employing novel analytical techniques and methods and teaching classes in quantitative methods in psychology. The ideal candidate would be instrumental in building bridges between Psychology, the Department of Statistics and Data Science, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences data-intense social science initiative. We are open to any area of quantitative methods relevant to psychology, for example, modeling of longitudinal and multilevel data structures, dynamic systems modeling, computational and predictive modeling, and other analytic approaches that can advance our understanding of psychological...

Associate/Assistant Professor in Psychology (Ref. No FSS/DPSY/AAP/07/2022)   The University of Macau (UM) is an internationalized public comprehensive university in the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) located at the west bank of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). The GBA is rapidly developing into one of the leading technology and innovation hubs of the world. UM is placed in 201-250 bracket in the THE World University Rankings and placed No. 254 in the QS World University Rankings. With a scenic campus of approximately 1 km2 on Hengqin island, UM has achieved significant progress in the past decade as evidenced by its rising international repute, state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities, and the establishment of three State Key Laboratories in microelectronics, Chinese medical sciences, and internet of things for smart city. To support economic diversification of MSAR and deepen collaboration between MSAR and Guangdong...

The University of Oregon’s Department of Psychology invites applications for a tenure-track position in Diversity Science at the rank of Associate or Full Professor to begin in fall 2024. Successful candidates will contribute to research, teaching and mentorship, and leadership within the Diversity Science cluster area. The Diversity Science cluster cuts across traditional areas in our department, with current faculty representing clinical, social, and developmental psychology. Researchers from all areas of psychology and those who conduct psychology research within related disciplines (e.g., public health) are encouraged to apply. Excellent candidates will contribute to theoretically grounded, foundational research on topics such as (but not limited to) disparities in health and mental health, individual and community-based sources of resilience, development and socialization of identity and understandings of prejudice and discrimination, intergroup relations and conflict, or...

The  Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Studies  (HESS) at Denison University invites applications for a  tenure-track  position in  Sport Studies  at the level of  Assistant Professor beginning in August of 2024. Our successful candidate will have earned a doctorate degree in Sport Studies, Sport Psychology, Sport Sociology, Sport Economics, Kinesiology, or a related discipline that provides a social science or humanities perspective on sport. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. no later than August 15, 2024. We are seeking candidates who are enthusiastic about teaching at the undergraduate level and committed to continually refining and growing their pedagogy. A commitment to teaching undergraduates or evidence of successful undergraduate teaching should be clearly articulated in the teaching statement. The successful candidate will be expected to teach undergraduate courses in the History and Organization of Sport in the United States, Sport Psychology, a...

The Program in Cognitive Science, in collaboration with the University Center for Human Values, invites applications for postdoctoral or more senior positions in the Cognitive Science of Values. The successful candidate will be based in the laboratory of Dr. Tania Lombrozo in the Department of Psychology. We aim to support a highly promising scholar with a background in cognitive science or a related discipline, such as psychology, empirically informed/experimental philosophy, or formal epistemology. The scholar's research agenda should address a topic that engages with both cognitive science and values, such as the role of moral values in decision making, the role of epistemic values in belief revision, or the role of values in the cognitive science of religion. The proposed research is expected to yield both theoretical and empirical publications. Candidates will be expected to contribute the equivalent of one course each year to the University Center and/or the Department. This...

T32 Postdoctoral Fellow   The Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT) program at the Pennsylvania State University is hiring a cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows focused on substance use and addiction. PAMT is an interdisciplinary program at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (https://prevention.psu.edu/) in the College of Health and Human Development. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse through a T32 award, PAMT (https://www.pamt.psu.edu/) cross-trains predoctoral and postdoctoral researchers as substance use prevention scientists and methodologists. Fellows are trained to apply cutting-edge methods to emerging critical research needs in the prevention of substance use and addiction. This two-year training program presents a unique opportunity for postdoctoral researchers who wish to establish a research career focused on substance use prevention to receive two years of training from some of the top substance use prevention scientists...

The Princeton University Center for Human Values invites applications for the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics for a possible available position starting in September 2024. The Shapiro Fellowship supports outstanding scholars studying ethical issues arising from developments in medicine, the biological sciences, or population health. We particularly encourage proposals focusing on problems of practical importance that have broader theoretical interest. The Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate will spend from one to three years at Princeton conducting research and teaching the equivalent of one course each year (subject to sufficient enrollments and approval by the Dean of the Faculty). They will participate in the Ira W. DeCamp Seminar in Bioethics and will be invited to participate in other activities of the University Center for Human Values including a year-long research seminar for visiting fellows and Center faculty. QUALIFICATIONS...

About our program : The goal and focus of the two-year clinical-research fellowship is to train and develop the next generation of leading clinical researchers in schizophrenia and other forms of serious mental illness.  Over the course of the two-year program, fellows are trained in academic, clinical, and health systems research, advanced clinical care service delivery, and program administration in an interdisciplinary setting. The fellowship combines individual mentored research and clinical training with state-of-the-art educational experiences. A special emphasis of the fellowship program is to train fellows to conduct translational research that brings basic science to clinical practice. Trainees will spend 75% of their time on a clinical-research project and research training and 25% in a VA clinical program that supports the Fellow’s training goals.  The MIRECC Psychology track is also part of a larger VASDHS APA-accredited fellowship program, the Clinical Mental Health...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Psychology The Department of Psychology at Lafayette College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning fall 2024. We seek applicants with expertise in Social Psychology; area of specialization is open but we especially welcome applications from those who specialize in race/racism. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field (degree conferred by August 16, 2024), experience teaching undergraduates, and an active research program. Candidates will be expected to regularly teach introductory and advanced laboratory courses in social psychology and should be able to teach one or more of the following: Introductory Psychology, Statistics, and/or Research Design. Depending on the candidate’s area of specialization, there will also be opportunities to teach existing courses and/or develop additional courses that reflect the candidate’s expertise (e.g., first-year seminar or capstone courses). The...

Assistant / Associate / Professor in Counseling Psychology Department of Educational Psychology College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Great Minds Think Education at ILLINOIS The College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a global leader in education and research, attracting outstanding faculty and students from across the U.S. and around the world. As a top-ranked institution, we develop, test, and apply new pedagogies and assessment practices that improve learner performance—supporting traditional, blended, and online learning. Join a premier network of transformational educators. Education at Illinois faculty are experts in a variety of fields, including teaching and learning, diversity and equity, education policy and leadership, special education, and educational psychology.  Our faculty collaborate across disciplines and colleges to address the most critical issues in education,...

The Department of Kinesiology and Health at Rutgers University - New Brunswick invites applicants for a tenure-track position in area of Physical Activity Assessment/Intervention at the level of Assistant Professor to begin in the Fall 2024. Candidates with expertise in physical activity assessments or interventions designed for underrepresented and historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups, gender- and sex-based minority groups, and/or people with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply. Specific relevant research topic areas of interest include (but are not limited to) increasing health equity or reducing health disparities, mechanisms of physical activity and health behavior change, community-based interventions, health-related motivation, and real-time data capture (ecological momentary assessment or intervention).   Our department, as part of the Division of Life Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences...

The UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry is seeking 1-2 postdoctoral fellows to begin in spring/summer 2024. The fellows will conduct research in one or more of the following areas: (1) substance use during adolescence or young adulthood, (2) externalizing problems during childhood and adolescence, or (3) parenting and family processes. The position is ideal for an individual seeking an academic research career at UCSD or elsewhere. More information is available here ( ad ).   To express interest, email CV to Dr. William Pelham ( wpelham@ucsd.edu ) and list contact information for three professional references. No further materials necessary.