2 December: fyi -- social network analysis, Belgium

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The University of Antwerp (Belgium) is seeking to fill the following
full time vacancy (m/f) at the Department of Communication studies
(Faculty of Social and Political Sciences):





Researcher/Phd student(100%)

for a project of the Research Foundation in Flanders:

"The contextual development of cyber bullying behavior in early
adolescence: a longitudinal and social network analysis"



Job description:



* You prepare a doctoral dissertation on cyber bullying among early
adolescents from a longitudinal and social network approach (review of
literature, design of measurement instrument, data collection and
statistical analysis, publication of findings in international, peer
reviewed scientific journal)

* The project is supervised by: H. Vandebosch and M. Walrave (University
of Antwerp) and S. Eggermont (Catholic University of Leuven)





Profile:

* You have a master's degree in communication studies, sociology,
psychology or another relevant master's degree.

* You obtained outstanding academic results

* You have an interest in teens' use of ICT

* You have experience with quantitative research (and social network
analysis or longitudinal analysis in particular), and/or you are
prepared to attend further training

* You have an eloquent writing style in English

* You are a team player, but can also work on assignments independently



We offer

* A two-year contract (renewable with a two-year contract after positive
evaluation) in a young and dynamic research unit.

* The possibility to attend international summer courses (in social
science data analysis)

* Affiliation with an international academic network on cyber bullying

* Starting date is February 1st 2010



Interested? * provide your resume (with scores for all attended courses)
and motivation letter by December 15th 2009, the latest (E-mail:
Heidi.Vandebosch@ua.ac.be, or: Heidi Vandebosch, Dept. Communication
Studies, University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp,
Belgium) * For more information contact Prof. Dr. Heidi Vandebosch,
tel. +3232655682 , heidi.vandebosch@ua.ac.be.






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