Topics
We welcome application addressing any of our major research themes. We especially invite applications addressing the following topics:
• Critical AI Literacy for Children
• Critical AI Literacy for Families
• Developing youth strategy and leadership skills in the context of technology education
• Using psychophysiological measurements including eye tracking to study user experience and engagement in gamification applications and mediated communication
• Community participation in urban planning, climate action and sustainable city life
• Fostering transformative agency of children through design and digital technology.
List of supervisors: professors Netta Iivari, Marianne Kinnula
Contact info: netta.iivari@oulu.fi
Expected qualifications: The candidates should when possible meet the following criteria:
- A recent and relevant PhD (after 2020)
- Good publication record
- International experience
- Good command of spoken and written English
Expected timeline
- Preproposal and research idea for MSCA grant: DL 31st of May 2025
- DL to submit the MSCA proposal is 10th of Sept 2025
- Decisions on the MSCA grant February 2026
- Start of the funded MSCA project at UOULU Sept 2026
Assessment and selection of candidates
Please submit a cover letter, a CV, including publications list, and a one-page project idea description. In the first step of the process, we will choose the candidates for developing competitive MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships grant applications. Applicants will be shortlisted by an internal panel and informed if they have been selected for the next stage by 15th of June 2025. The selected applicants will develop their MSCA PF proposal in cooperation with their future supervisor at INTERACT Research Unit. In addition, they will be offered individual consultations and review of their MSCA PF proposal.
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