Postdoc Position: Healthy Student Life Project

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Would you like to contribute to a better understanding of student well-being and help shape a healthy student population? Join the longitudinal Healthy Student Life (HSL) project at Radboud University as a Postdoctoral Researcher. This is an exciting opportunity to combine scientific research with project coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration, while contributing to knowledge that can inform policies and initiatives to promote student well-being.

As a Postdoctoral Researcher, you will play a key role in the continuation and further development of the Healthy Student Life (HSL) project at Radboud University. HSL is a longitudinal research project investigating the well-being and health behaviours of university students, including mental health, study-related factors, substance use and lifestyle. The project provides a unique research infrastructure for studying student well-being over time and contributes to the development of evidence-based policies and prevention initiatives.

As the project develops, there may also be opportunities to explore how its research population could be broadened to include students in other types of education.

You will coordinate and conduct the seventh and eighth waves of data collection, from study design and preparation to survey implementation, participant recruitment and data management. In collaboration with the HSL project leaders, team members and researchers across the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI), you will help identify research priorities, coordinate input from collaborating researchers and select appropriate validated measures. Potential topics include mental health, alcohol use, gambling and emerging themes identified through a Delphi study on priorities for youth research.

You will also prepare study documentation, coordinate ethics applications and survey programming, and oversee high standards of data quality, documentation and archiving.

Alongside these coordination responsibilities, you will conduct your own scientific research using HSL data. You will develop research questions, carry out statistical analyses and lead the…