Lecturer in Applied Economics and Education (1.0 FTE)

Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) has a vacancy for a departmental Lecturer with expertise in Applied Economics and Education. The departmental Lecturer spends 70% of the appointment to teaching, and 30% to projects related to educational research, innovation and experimentation.

The Lecturer partly takes a classical role as a Teacher and Course Coordinator (70%). You will coordinate and teach courses at Bachelor's and Master's level, covered by U.S.E.'s Applied Economics section. We are open to candidates who can teach courses in the domain of Economics of the Public Sector, as well as candidates who can teach quantitative courses in Statistics, Econometrics, and Applied Data Science. You will take care of qualitatively good teaching in accordance with the academic and departmental guidelines. Teaching is in English. Furthermore, the Lecturer supervises Bachelor's and Master's theses and other research projects by students.

The Lecturer spends 30% of his/her work hours on educational innovation. In collaboration with the Director of Studies and your Head of Section, you develop a plan to research and/or intervene on (parts of) our teaching portfolio. Possible activities include:
researching the effectiveness of new teaching formats; developing case studies or teaching materials which are directly tested in practice; experimenting with small student group formats; bringing practitioners to the classroom in unprecedented ways, and much more.
The 30% is not free research time, however, it can be shaped so that academic publications are possible. You will also be closely collaborating with other departmental Lecturers at U.S.E.