Job opportunity: Postdoctoral researcher in youth learning (California-based)

 

Hi all,

 

My collaborators in the USA are currently recruiting a postdoctoral science education researcher to join our international team studying the learning processes and outcomes of participation in citizen science for young people aged 5-19 years. The role will be based at the University of California, Davis.

 

Summary below and full details here https://education.ucdavis.edu/post/post-doctoral-researcher

 

Please share amongst your networks, and direct all enquiries to Heidi Ballard [log in to unmask]

 

Thanks,

 

Lucy

 

Lucy Robinson

Citizen Science Programme Manager

Natural History Museum London

 

The Center for Community and Citizen Science (CCS) is seeking an accomplished science education researcher to be the lead U.S. research coordinator for our LEARN CitSci Project https://education.ucdavis.edu/learn-citizen-science (Learning and Environmental science Agency Research Network for Citizen Science), a large-scale international research collaboration of universities and natural history museums, which is one of five Science Learning + awards funded jointly by the National Science Foundation, Wellcome, and the UK Economic and Social Research Council.

 

The Post-Doctoral Researcher will join a team of museum practitioners and education researchers in California and the United Kingdom, all focused on how youth learn when engaged in citizen science led by natural history museums. The Post-Doctoral Researcher will also be an important member of the growing community of faculty, staff, and students that make up the Center for Community and Citizen Science at UC Davis, and will have the opportunity to play a key role in shaping the education research activities of the Center into the future.

 

The position is renewable annually with funding for approximately 3 years for the Youth-focused NHM-led Citizen Science project, with the possibility of extension pending further funding. The position will open immediately in May 2018, and will be supervised by PI of the LEARN CitSci project, Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for CCS, PI Heidi Ballard.