Postdoc In Socio-Emotional Processes in Team Learning within Challenge-Based Engineering Education at TU/e
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Are you excited about advancing the next generation of engineering education? Do you want to investigate how student teams navigate the socio-emotional aspects of learning while solving complex, real-world challenges? Then this 2-year postdoc position at the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education may be the perfect next step in your academic career.
Eindhoven University of Technology’s Strategy 2030 highlights a university-wide transition toward challenge-based learning (CBL) as a central educational model. At the heart of CBL are multidisciplinary student teams working on authentic, open-ended problems, requiring the ability to regulate motivation, emotions, and social interactions effectively.
Building on previous work on Socially Shared Regulation of Learning (SSRL), this postdoctoral project will focus more explicitly on socio-emotional processes in team learning, investigating how emotions, motivation, group climate, and interpersonal regulation shape learning and performance in engineering multidisciplinary student teams. The project offers opportunities for collaboration with other ongoing research projects on team learning in CBL, while allowing the postdoc to develop their own research line within this broader theme.
Job Requirements
- A PhD degree in educational sciences, psychology, learning sciences, engineering education, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated expertise in researching team learning, socio-emotional processes, regulation of learning, or related areas, evidenced by publications, dissertation work, or conference presentations.
- Strong methodological skills, such as experience with process-oriented or multimodal analyses, qualitative coding of interactions, mixed-methods research.
- Affinity with or interest in higher education innovation and/or engineering education.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team while contributing to a collaborative research environment.
- Strong academic writing and communication skills.
- Proactive, creative, and analytically strong mindset.
- Fluent in spoken and written English (C1 level).