Netherlands : PhD student for-ICT reading intervention

Job description
As a PhD student you will work on the project ‘ICT reading intervention’, a project that is part of the FES Programme Brain and Cognition (see www.hersenenencognitie.nl). The focus of this project will be on the optimal benefits of training in a computer-supported intervention programme for poor readers in primary school in the Netherlands. Guidelines for optimizing an existing adaptive computer-supported intervention programme will be derived from a series of formative training experiments with children with reading problems at various grade levels.
In these experiments, the focus will be on the benefits of speed training of sublexical units (phonemes, syllables, morphemes), words, sentences and text. In subsequent summative studies, an adapted version of the programme will be tested in an early intervention of reading problems in grade 1 and in remediation of poor readers in subsequent grades.

Requirements
You should have:
- a Master’s degree in Research Master Cognitive (Neuro)science or Behavioural Science, Education, or another relevant study;
- broad experience with quantitative research, outstanding methodological and analytical qualities, and experience with collecting and analysing data;
- excellent writing skills in Dutch and English;
- an organizational talent, accompanied by independence and perseverance.

Organization
With its six Bachelor’s and seven Master's programmes, three Research Master’s programmes, three educational institutes with a total of 4,500 students, three research institutes and the Academic Centre for Social Sciences, the Faculty of Social Sciences is one of the largest faculties at Radboud University Nijmegen. The faculty currently employs about 650 people. The faculty’s ambition is to become one of the top social science institutes in Europe, providing high-quality research programmes and study programmes that rank among the best in the Netherlands.

The project will be embedded in the priority programme ‘Learning and plasticity’ of the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI, http://www.ru.nl/socialewetenschappen/bsi/ ). This programme deals with the micro-analysis of learning processes. The BSI is a KNAW-acknowledged research school that provides excellent research facilities and high-quality training to PhD students.
Website: http://www.ru.nl/fsw

Conditions of employment
Employment: 1,0 fte
Maximum salary per month, based on a fulltime employment: € 2612 gross/month
The starting salary is €2,042 per month on a full-time base; the salary will increase to €2,612 per month on a full-time base in the fourth year.
Duration of the contract: 4 years.

Other Information
Job interviews are scheduled for September 2010; starting date of the project is October 15th, 2010.

Additional Information
prof. dr. L. Verhoeven
Telephone: +31 24 3612822
E-mail: L.Verhoeven@pwo.ru.nl

dr. E. Segers
Telephone: +31 24 3612822
E-mail: E.Segers@pwo.ru.nl

Application
You can apply for the job (mention the vacancy number 24.15.10) before 1 September 2010 by sending your application -preferably by email- to:

Faculty of Social Sciences/P&O
Postbus 9104
6500 HE NIJMEGEN
E-mail: vacancies@socsci.ru.nl

Faculty of Social Sciences
Maximum Salary: € 2612 gross/month
Vacancy number: 24.15.10

No commercial propositions please. 

Further Information

Application Deadline : 1 September 2010

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