Dear all, Please forward this to anyone who might be interested. Kind regards, Katrien Van Cleemput 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.