Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Human DevelopmentApply now Description The Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Texas-Austin is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Human Development. The person hired for this position will conduct research examining how developmental processes shape learning and well-being across the lifespan, with particular
attention to the cultural, social, and institutional contexts in which development occurs. We are especially interested in scholarship that advances understanding of how cultural values, practices, identities, families, communities, and institutions shape developmental processes. We envision a scholar whose work uses developmental science to address questions of central importance to education broadly defined.
Relevant areas include but are not limited to how cognitive, social, emotional, or neurobiological development shapes educational experiences; how developmental processes vary across cultural and sociocultural contexts; how family, school, community, and broader institutional environments interact with individual development; how developmental transitions shape educational experiences and well-being; or how
educational environments can better support development across groups. We particularly welcome scholars who incorporate a developmental neuroscience perspective, while also encouraging applicants who use other rigorous and innovative theoretical, methodological, or interdisciplinary approaches. Across approaches, we seek a scholar whose research can contribute to developmental and educational research, practice,
programs, or policy by deepening understanding of how people develop within the contexts in which education occurs. UT-Austin's Department of Educational Psychology has robust graduate programs and is currently ranked #6 among the Best Educational Psychology Programs rated by U.S. News & World Report. The department advances knowledge about the human experience at the intersection of education and psychology through
research, teaching, and practice. It provides an interdisciplinary and contemporary approach to learning and development and seeks to enhance the quality of the human experience through rigorous educational and psychological research, and effective translation of findings to policy and practice. The successful candidate will have opportunities to build collaborations across the College of Education and the broader
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