We are hiring! NRIN is looking for a new postdoc to work at Amsterdam UMC (location VUmc), with a focus on mapping and developing educational materials developed in as part of the transition to a sustainable economy and society, as envisioned by the European Green Deal.

View the LinkedIn posting here.

As project leader of the NRIN you are the first contact for people interested in activities of the NRIN and you help organize the events that NRIN network currently covers. On a daily basis, you help sustain the network community of the NRIN by helping to facilitate events (for specific groups like integrity officers) or the general research public in the Netherlands), you maintain and build stakeholder contacts with people active in the fields of research integrity, open science and reproducibility networks both within the universities in the Netherlands as well as in the universities of applied sciences. Additionally, you maintain a website and social media (newsletters, Twitter), keep the administration of members and finances (overview) and you help develop a view on the network for the future. The role of a project leader requires that you take initiative, are a good communicator and that you can set priorities if necessary.

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The Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities (Faculty of Medicine) at the AmsterdamUMC is looking for a PhD student who will work on two large European Commission funded projects related to preparedness for research ethics and research integrity challenges posed by public health crises and emerging technologies. Both projects involve extensive stakeholder consultation activities and the development of innovative training materials for diverse stakeholders, including students, researchers, and members of research ethics committees.

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Beginning in September 2022, the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy (Aarhus University) will start a new project on research integrity. To complete the research team of this new project called ETHOS, the project currently has open positions for both a PhD student and two postdocs, all supposed to start on September 1st (the deadline for the PhD-application is May 31th. The dealine for the postdoc-applications is May 23rd).

Find more information about the positions here:

PhD for research project on research integrity and resposible conduct of research

2 Postdoc position at the Danisch centre for studies in research and research policy

The Department of Methodology and Statistics of Tilburg University is looking for a PhD candidate for the project ‘Research on qualitative research’. This project focuses on investigating the rigor and verifiability of qualitative research in the social sciences. Furthermore, the project fits within the research program of Department of Methods and Statistics at Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB) which is dedicated to researching the quality of research practices (meta-research).

Read more about the requirements for this position and additional on the project here.

The application deadline is on August 15.

The online platform www.preclinicaltrials.eu is the first platform for (pre)registration of animal research, and is currently looking for a daily director (16-24h week).

The daily director will be the central hub in the governance structure of PCT, will be the point of contact for various stakeholders, and will translate the discussed topics during steering committee meetings into concrete actions.
If you are interested, you can find the full job description and additional background information about the organization here.

The Abraham Kuyper Center has a vacancy for an enthusiastic PhD candidate who is both passionate about academic research, and aspires to improve the quality of academic research and education. The center is looking for a PhD candidate who is interested in answering the following questions; what and how can a taxonomy help universities to take their responsibilities to foster epistemic progress? How can epistemic progress be measured? And what procedures help research institutions to help prevent research misconduct and questionable research practices?

The vacancy can be found here

The deadline for applications is the 18th of November.

BMJ and Maastricht University have launched a new joint PhD program on the responsible conduct of publishing scientific research. This new PhD opportunity is for a self-funded or scholarship-based program with distance-learning, and the position is embedded within the Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI) of Maastricht University.

For information about the procedure and requirements, visit BMJ.