Phd Position Consumer Behavior

4 weken geleden

Amsterdam Zuid, Nederland Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Voltijd

**Your function**:
We are all consumers; making use of products, services, ideas, or even people. Consumption is abstract (e.g., processing information, buying, owning, borrowing, sharing, recycling, putting to waste), yet concrete (e.g, shopping online, eating (un)healthy, (not) taking medicine, commenting on social media). Consumer researchers investigate the constant flux of decisions and choices people make, what people think, feel and do, and how consumption is influenced by many factors, such as people’s personalities, social, economic, cultural and technological experiences.

**Research and teaching activities**

You will conduct research under the guidance of dr. Jiska Eelen and Prof. dr. Peeter Verlegh, but also have the opportunity to collaborate with other faculty members. Your advisors work on topics such as online retailing, body size diversity, clothing, ownership and the sharing economy, resistance against persuasion, and branding. Their research draws on theories and concepts in consumer psychology, related to information processing, self and identity, behavioral change, implicit measurement of attitudes and behavior, emotion, persuasion, embodied cognition, using different methodologies, such as causal experimentation, eye tracking, and text analyis.

About 20% of your time will be dedicated to teaching responsabilities such as supervising bachelor’s and master’s thesis students and tutoring groups of students in courses of marketing and consumer behavior. You will take a teaching training.

To stay the vibrant research group we are, you are expected to work on campus most of the time, participate actively in research meetings, seminars, and occasional team activities, ask for and provide constructive feedback to fellow PhD students and faculty members.

**Your profile**:
You recognize yourself in the following skills and traits (at least when the sun shines): ability to learn and process complex information quickly, critical thinking, diverse interests, curious, self-disciplined, organized (planning, timing, tasks, goals), showing initiative, persistent, dedicated, pushing through challenges, bouncing back from failure, collaborative, nuanced, precise, open to new perspectives.

Ideally you have gained experience with conducting and writing academic research. You are familiar with (or eager to learn) creating and programming experimental studies (e.g., using Qualtrics, Psychopy or Eprime) and conducting advanced data analyses (e.g., using R, Spss syntax, Python), data management and open science practices (e.g., using Github, data archiving, preregistration). A high level of spoken and written English proficiency is required.

**What do we offer?**:
A challenging position in a socially engaged organisation. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:

- a salary of € 2.901,00 (PhD) and maximum € 3.707,00 (PhD) gross per month in the fourth year, for a full-time employment
- an employment contract of initially 1 year. If there is sufficient perspective, this will be extended to a total of 4 years. The position starts on September 1, 2025 (earlier or later upon mutual agreement).

We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and arrangements. Some examples:

- A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
- solid pension scheme (ABP)
- contribution to commuting expenses
- optional model for designing a personalized benefits package

**About us**:
**Marketing department**

You will join the Department of Marketing of the School of Business and Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As a department, we are proud of our collegial, dynamic, international culture. We try hard to offer a stimulating, inclusive, open-minded working environment. The department’s language of communication is English, teaching is either in English or in Dutch. The department excels in research and teaching. Our faculty publishes in the major international marketing journals, as well as several other (top level) outlets in economics, psychology, decision making, and interdisciplinary journals, such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Psychological Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. We have a strong international network with many research collaborations and research visits across Europe, Canada, the US, Australia, and were home to the European Association of Consumer Research conference in 2023. The department offers courses at all levels from Bachelor to MSc and MBA. Our MSc in Marketing (in English) has been rated best in the Netherlands. As part of the business school, we have strong connections with profit and non-pro

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