Postdoctoral Researcher

We are now looking for a postdoctoral researcher in psychology (social psychology, environmental psychology, political psychology, developmental psychology etc.), education, or a neighboring social science field. The two-year project will be exploring “critical emotional awareness (CEA)” (Ojala, 2023, 2026) as a possible resilience factor against disinformation/propaganda and for civic engagement among young people in a time of polycrisis (climate change, war etc.). The age groups in focus in the project are young people between late childhood and up to young adulthood. The preliminary plan is that the post doc in collaboration with the project leader will: (1) Conduct interviews to explore young people’s emotions, and views about emotions, in relation to different intertwined societal problems (polycrisis), analyze, write, and publish an article on the data. (2) Based on earlier research and the interviews and in collaboration with young people create a survey scale capturing CEA, test how this scale works in groups of young people and publish articles on the data. Besides working in FRONT, you will work together with colleagues in the SERSus (Socio-Ecological Resilience and Sustainability) research group, led by Prof. Maria Ojala (who is also the project leader of this post doc project), at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu. As a postdoctoral researcher you will also Collaborate in service to FRONT programme, faculty, and university Participate in the development and activities of the Resilience Academy of Oulu (RAO) Engage in writing and submitting applications for research funding Take part in teaching activities, subject to faculty and research unit needs and your own teaching/research capabilities and interests