Postdoctoral researcher Educational Sciences

at  Universit du Luxembourg

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.
The Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) brings together expertise from the humanities, linguistics, cognitive sciences, social and educational sciences. People from across 20 disciplines are working within the Faculty. Along with the disciplinary approach a very ambitious interdisciplinary research culture has been developed.
The faculty’s research and teaching focuses on social, economic, political and educational issues with the common goal of contributing to an inclusive, open and resourceful society. The FHSE offers six Bachelor and twenty Master degrees and a doctoral school providing students with the necessary knowledge and high-qualified skills to succeed in their future career.

The Postdoctoral researcher will be working in the Institute of Teaching and Learning, within the Department of Education and Social Work. He/she will be part of a dynamic organisational context of a growing, globally connected research university. The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate closely with Michelle Proyer on topics related to inclusion, specifically inclusive education. The ideal candidate holds experience in developing and coordinating research projects, both individually and in (multidisciplinary) teams. The potential candidate is interested in promoting research approaches in an inclusive, participatory, creative and potentially digitally-informed way.

• Collaboration and support of research and administrative tasks in the field of inclusive education
• Self-organised and collaborative research
• Application for and coordination of (international) third-party funding
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Innovative teaching
• Independent supervision of students and doctoral researchers
• Transfer of relevant research results to various communities and a wider public
• Academic self-administration (Institute, Department and Faculty

The Postdoctoral researcher will be working in the Institute of Teaching and Learning, within the Department of Education and Social Work. He/she will be part of a dynamic organisational context of a growing, globally connected research university. The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate closely with Michelle Proyer on topics related to inclusion, specifically inclusive education. The ideal candidate holds experience in developing and coordinating research projects, both individually and in (multidisciplinary) teams. The potential candidate is interested in promoting research approaches in an inclusive, participatory, creative and potentially digitally-informed way.

• Collaboration and support of research and administrative tasks in the field of inclusive education
• Self-organised and collaborative research
• Application for and coordination of (international) third-party funding
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals
• Innovative teaching
• Independent supervision of students and doctoral researchers
• Transfer of relevant research results to various communities and a wider public
• Academic self-administration (Institute, Department and Faculty)