Tilburg University Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences is looking for a PhD Candidate – Personalised digital nudging for healthy food choice across the socioeconomic gradient (0,8 fte – 1,0 fte)
School : Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences Department : Communication and Cognition : Location : Tilburg Full-time equivalent : 0,8 fte – 1,0 fte (32 to 40 hours per week) Monthly full-time gross salary : €2.770 gross per month up to €3.539 in the fourth year. Duration of employment contract : 48 months
Your position
The Department of Communication and Cognition in the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences is looking for an enthusiastic new colleague. The PhD candidate will work within the DIGIQUITY4HEALTH project, work package 3, which focuses on understanding effects and mechanisms of personalised digital interventions for promoting healthy food choice across the socioeconomic gradient. The project is funded by the Digital Sciences for Society programme (https: // www. tilburguniversity.edu/about/digital-sciences- society) and is a collaboration between several public and private partners.
The digital transformation of the food environment (e.g., supermarket websites and apps) presents both opportunities and threats regarding promoting healthy food choices. Digital choice environments have shown potential for promoting healthy food choice, for example with (personalised) digital nudges, but research has mostly focussed on samples higher in socioeconomic position. This project addresses a significant gap in scientific knowledge by investigating the impact of digital choice environments on healthy food choices, and by exploring how personalisation can serve populations lower in socioeconomic position. In this project, the effects of personalised digital nudging techniques are assessed in the context of an innovative digital nudge type, namely the Just-In-Time nudge (Van der Laan & Orcholska, 2022, Food Quality and Preference).
In this PhD project the candidate will contribute to answering the following research questions:
The successful candidate will be responsible for setting up, conducting, analysing, and reporting the experimental studies. The candidate will work on these tasks in a close collaboration with the supervisors (dr. Nynke van der Laan, dr. Tessa van Leeuwen, dr. Sabita Soedamah-Muthu), the project consortium consisting of other researchers, and the company Nakko b.v. which is responsible for designing the mobile application that will be used in the studies.
More information about the DIGIQUITY4HEALTH project can be found here: https: // www. tilburguniversity.edu/about/digital-sciences- society/projects/digiquity4health
Your tasks Job tasks/responsibilities:
Your profile You are self-motivated, conscientious, capable of working well in an interdisciplinary team, and ambitious to complete a PhD.
Information For more information on the position, please contact dr. ir. Nynke van der Laan ([email protected]).
Terms of employment This is a position for 0,8 – 1,0 fte (32 - 40 hours per week) of full working hours. Working hours can be flexible for caring responsibilities. The selected candidate will start with a contract at Tilburg University at the Department of Communication and Cognition for one year, concluded by an evaluation. Upon a positive outcome of the first-year evaluation, the candidate will be offered an employment contract for an additional 3 years.
Tilburg University offers excellent employment conditions with attention to flexibility and (personal) development and attractive fringe benefits. The salary amounts to €2.770 gross per month for full-time employment, increasing up to €3.539 in the fourth year. The salary is based on UFO Promovendus of the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities and includes the 9% salary raise as of August 1st, 2023. Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system for salary scaling that is based on work experience.
You are entitled to a vacation allowance of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual income. If you work 40 hours per week, you will receive 41 paid days of leave per year. Researchers from outside the Netherlands may qualify for a tax-free allowance of 30% of their taxable salary if they meet the relevant conditions. The university applies for this allowance on their behalf. The University will provide assistance in finding suitable accommodation (for foreign employees). All employees of the university are covered by the so-called General Pension Fund for Public Employers (Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP).
We make clear agreements about career paths and offer all kinds of facilities and arrangement to maintain an optimal balance between work and private life. You can also follow numerous training courses, for example, in the areas of leadership skills, personal effectiveness, and career development.
Tilburg University values an open and inclusive culture. We embrace diversity and encourage the mutual integration of groups of employees and students. We focus on creating equal opportunities for all our employees and students so that everyone feels at home in our university community. Tilburg University has a lively campus in beautiful green surroundings that is easily accessible by public transport. We are committed to a sustainable society and challenge you to make an active contribution.
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Who we are The Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) is responsible for the Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), where research is conducted into cognitive and social aspects of human communication through a multidisciplinary approach combining careful experimentation with survey methods, corpus analyses and computational modeling. The research group consists of about 80 researchers covering a broad range of topics relevant for cognition and communication, and this includes approximately 25 PhD students. Core research domains include communication and technology, cross-cultural communication, computational linguistics, information visualisation, marketing and business communication, language production, and non-verbal communication, with a strong emphasis on digital methods.
Applications
Applications should include:
Applications should be sent before the application deadline of September 22th, 2023. Interviews are expected to be held in October. Start date is preferably December 2023. The only way to apply is online by following this link: https:// www. tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/working-at/wp/
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
Research and education at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD) has a unique focus on humans in the context of the globalizing digital society, on the development of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies, on their impact on communication, culture and society, and on moral and existential challenges that arise. The School of Humanities and Digital Sciences consists of four departments: Communication and Cognition, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Culture Studies and Philosophy; several research institutes and a faculty office. Also the University College Tilburg is part of the School. Each year around 275 students commence a Bachelor or (Pre) Master Program. The School has approximately 2000 students and 250 employees.
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences
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