PhD position on Meaning making in the implementation of integral capacity m

at  Universiteit Twente

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  Hours
  38 - 40 hr.
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  Salary indication
  Salary gross/monthly
  based on full-time
  € 2,872 - € 3,670
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  Deadline
  1 Dec 2024
  The Faculty of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences at the University of Twente is currently seeking a motivated and curious PhD student who would like to contribute to understanding organizational change in the context of enabling accessible mental healthcare. The ideal candidate is interested in individual change processes. You study how mental health care employees make meaning about the jobs they do and the inner workings of their organization, and how this meaning making relates to changes they are (un)willing to make in their ways of working.
  Currently, there is a high demand for increased accessibility of mental healthcare. Capacity management, and more personalized diagnosis and treatment, are seen as important solutions. However, the implementation of such organizational changes remains a major challenge.
  In this PhD project, you will study how individual change processes within employees can unlock organizational change (and vice versa). You will determine how mental health care employees interpret information (e.g., about events, actions, contexts) in a personal manner in different developmental stages. The project aims to gain insight into employees’ meaning making strategies, and how they use those strategies to create commitment for change or for maintaining the status quo. You will design interventions and implement those to redesign ways of working. The project will provide you a unique opportunity to advance both your theoretical knowledge of individual change processes and contribute to making mental health care more accessible.

We are looking for a PhD student who is driven by curiosity who would like to:

• Design and conduct qualitative studies on health care employees’ meaning making processes and how this relates to their commitment to change their ways of working
• Design and evaluate intervention studies aimed at improving the efficient organization of mental health care.
• Work in close collaboration with researchers in the project team, managers and employees of mental health care institutes, and other stakeholders.
• Present findings for a scientific and a non-scientific audience.
• Report findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals, research reports, and finalise a dissertation.
• Participate in the doctoral program of the Twente Graduate School (30 EC).

The PhD position is part of the project ‘Responsible scaling of data-driven approaches for enhancing mental healthcare’, funded by NWO. Several partners collaborate in the project, including University of Utrecht, Radboud University Nijmegen, Hogeschool Utrecht and Rathenau Institute. Also, several Dutch Mental Healthcare institutes are partners in the project.

Please refer the Job description for details