2 PhD & 1 Postdoctoral Positions, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (2017)

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), University of Twente (UT) and University of Amsterdam (UvA) invite applications for two PhD positions for four years and one postdoc position for three years. The positions are part of the project 'NEWEL - The New Science of Existential Well-being: Concepts, Ethics and Responsible Algorithms,’ which is jointly funded by Ahold Delhaize and NWO.

The NEWEL research agenda will
- explore the need, relevance and justness of focusing on well-being in organizations and organizational decision-making, also compared to achieving other objectives within organizations;
- explore key drivers of current and future aspects of work-related well-being, including identification of long-term effectiveness of interventions to increase well-being within organizations and core ethical guidelines for sustainable well-being policies, and
- explore the ethics of using technology in gathering, processing and data driven decision making on well-being in organizations.

Envisaged tangible outcomes of the project include guidelines for using big data and well-being data in organizations to inform policy as well as software prototypes for analysing work-related survey and theoretical and empirical contributions on the relationship between employee well-being and organizational performance.

Within the NEWEL project, the work will focus on algorithms and ethics of data-driven well-being interventions. The people on this project will be based at different academic locations and the team as a whole will have regular meetings at Ahold Delhaize’s Zaandam offices.

Further details:
http://www.universitypositions.eu