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Tenure track professorship in Work and Organisational Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Please find attached a job offer for a tenure track professorship in Work and Organisational Psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). The candidate must be able to work in French, achieving level C1 for the tenure application. Candidates should have practical experience in the work and organisational context and be able to supervise internships in that domain in addition to a solid publication record.

For more details about the position, please see: https://www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichageProfs/21808200.pdf

Deadline for applications is: 6 March 2026.

PhD Position at the Geneva Motivation Lab, University of Geneva

The Geneva Motivation Lab is looking for a PhD student for a research project on “Feedback, Effort, and Performance: A psychophysiological approach”. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a period of four years.

For more details about the project and the position, please see here.

Deadline for applications is: 21 November 2025.

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Motivation Science - Call for Editor Nominations

The Publications and Communications Board of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Science of Motivation has opened nominations for the editorship of Motivation Science. Guido Gendolla, PhD and Rex Wright, PhD are the incumbent editors.

Motivation Science is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes significant contributions to the study of motivation, broadly conceived.

The journal publishes papers on diverse aspects of, and approaches to, the science of motivation, including work carried out in all subfields of psychology, cognitive science, economics, sociology, management science, organizational science, neuroscience and political science.

Primarily, Motivation Science features empirical papers on motivational topics, although theoretical papers and reviews of literature will also be considered.

Candidates should be members of APA and should be available to start receiving manuscripts in early 2027 to prepare for issues published in 2028. The APA Journals program values equity, diversity, and inclusion and encourages the application of members of all groups, including women, people of color, LGBTQ psychologists, and those with disabilities, as well as candidates across all stages of their careers. Self-nominations are also encouraged.

The search is co-chaired by Heejung Kim, PhD, and Philip Gable, PhD.

Nominate candidates through APA’s Editor Search website. Prepared statements of one page or less in support of a nominee can also be submitted by email to Rashika Venkataraman, Associate Publisher.

The deadline for accepting nominations is Monday, January 12, 2026, after which phase one vetting will begin.

More information about Motivation Science.