Researcher (part-time or full-time) – Team Safeguarding Sport and Society

Reference: TMMA-2025-444 Publication date: 30/04/2025

This is where it happens. With more than 2000 employees and more than 22,000 students, Thomas More is the largest university college in Flanders, a warm, international and vibrant community with optimal learning opportunities for every talent. To further realize our vision as a sustainable A-brand, we are looking for people with Guts, Enthusiasm, Focus and Confidence. Inspired by these four values, we offer you a challenging job within a dynamic educational environment in which innovation and cooperation are crucial, and in which you contribute to a pleasant working environment for everyone.

Profile and experience

Do you want to help make a difference in how we organize sports and living environments in a safer, more inclusive and healthier way? Do you have a heart for research and for social impact? Then you might be the colleague we are looking for!

Within Thomas More's People & Well-being expertise centre, we are looking for a passionate researcher to expand our team. You will be part of the applied research into themes such as interpersonal violence, mental well-being, integrity and social safety in sports and society.

• You have a master's degree in psychology, criminology, sociology, law or a similarly relevant field of study.
• You have experience with or a great interest in applied research.
• Experience with quantitative data analysis and statistics is a great added value (e.g., SPSS, Excel, R...).
• You feel at home in themes such as sports, safeguarding, integrity, (gender) safety and psychosocial functioning.
• You are analytical, accurate and can work independently and in a team.
• You communicate fluently in Dutch and/or English, both orally and in writing.
• You are available to work (regularly) at Campus Sanderus (Antwerp).
• You are willing to engage in teaching (in the future).
• You want to get the best out of yourself and help build the expertise of our research team and meet the profile of the Thomas More employee.

Content of the assignment:

As a researcher, you will work on various ongoing and new international projects within the team. Your focus is on supporting substantive and coordinating work, with room to think and develop. You are not alone: you work closely with fellow researchers, partners in the field and other stakeholders.

Some of your tasks:

• Support for literature review data collection within the European project SAFE COMBAT on the prevention of interpersonal violence in martial arts.
• Quantitative data analysis in various prevalence studies on the nature and extent of interpersonal violence in international sport.
• Support with interviews, questionnaires and tools within projects such as Safe Harbour and Coaching with Consensus.
• Contribution to bachelor thesis supervision and evaluation within the Postgraduate Forensic Psychodiagnostics and Counselling
• Communication support for ongoing projects.

What do we offer you?

Recruitment will start as soon as possible until 28/02/2026.

Scale: 502 (master)

Place of employment: Antwerp

More information about the content of the assignment can be obtained from Tim.vanhoomissen@thomasmore.be

You can apply (online with CV and cover letter) until 15.05.2025.