Postdoc Modeling Societal Preparedness for Health
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The postdoc will conduct research in a large multi-disciplinary project (PREP-Shield - Preparedness for society in health crises and disasters) funded by the European Union under the call Horizon-CL3-2023-DRS 01-01 (Improving social and societal preparedness for disaster response and health emergencies) to study preparedness for society in health crises and disasters.
The project's main objective is to foster a more holistic and citizen-centric approach to health crisis preparedness and management, by co-creating policy recommendations, methods, and an AI-powered platform for crisis management to better prepare for and address health crises from a social and societal perspective. To reach this objective, PREPSHIELD will develop recommendations based on stakeholder needs, devise ICT tools to simulate future crises through an iterative process, and involve various pilots for the evaluation of the ICT platform and the policy recommendations.
The postdoc will contribute to achieving the desired outcomes of the project by focusing on two main tasks:
1. a multi-method analysis of vulnerable groups (elderly, women, disabled people) needs in order to deliver recommendations for more inclusive crisis preparedness and management. Desk research, survey data, and qualitative interviews will be conducted to identify the main barriers to compliance with institutional recommendations during health crises, like the Covid-19 pandemic.
2. the development of an agent-based model (ABM) of how human psychological and social features affect, in separation and in combination, agents’ behaviors in a health crisis (e.g., risk perception; norm compliance; risky behaviors). The results from the simulation will be presented and discussed with stakeholders (public health experts, city managers, NGOs) during participatory sessions with the aim of further validating the simulation results. The ABM model, psychologically and behaviorally realistic, will be connected to the pandemic wave model in the PREPSHIELD platform to simulate the potential evolution of the pandemic and individual’s reactions to it, based on the measures implemented and input from the stakeholders provided through the app. We invite strong researchers whose expertise fit the main research line.
Organisation
The University of Groningen is a research university with a global outlook, deeply rooted in Groningen, the City of Talent. Quality has had top priority for four hundred years, and with success: the University is currently in or around the top 100 on several influential ranking lists.
The postdoc will participate in the activities of the ICS and will be hired at the Department of Sociology. The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) is an internationally renowned Research Center and Graduate School in the field of Sociology, located in the Netherlands at the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Nijmegen, and Amsterdam (UvA).
The Department of Sociology is part of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. The department offers a bachelor's and a master's degree in Sociology. The research program is grouped around five themes and is part of two national research centers.
**Qualifications**:
- A PhD degree in sociology, social psychology, complex systems science (or a related discipline).
- Documented experience with quantitative methods (survey) and agent-based modeling and simulation.
- A relevant publication record demonstrating your ability to publish international academic publications, preferably in top-tier peer-reviewed journals.
- A strong affinity with and a record in interdisciplinary work and interdisciplinary collaborations and is interested in working with people from different fields (the project requires collaborating with experts from engineering, computer science, disaster studies, emergency medicine, and communication studies).
- Excellent command of the English language.
- Ability to work independently and manage joint research activities.
- A team player with strong communication skills.
- Demonstrable competencies such as conceptual capacity, environment orientation, presenting, and result orientation.
**Organisation**:
**Conditions of employment**:
We offer you in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities
- Depending on qualifications and work experience, a salary of € 4,020 to a maximum of € 5,278 (salary scale 10) gross per month for a full-time position
- A holiday allowance of 8% of gross annual income an 8.3% end-of-the-year allowance.
- Attractive secondary terms of employment.
- The position is classified in accordance with the University Job Classification (UFO) system; the UFO profile is Researcher 4.
- A temporary contract of 1 fte for a period of 33 months.
Intended starting date: February 1st (or earlier)
**Application**:
- CV including 2 references (contact data).
- Letter of motivation (max. 2 pages).
- Copy of your diploma (including grades), or a
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