Postdoctoral Researcher – TEACUP Lab

Job description

The TEACUP (Teaching Empathy, Agency, and Criticality for Unlearning Power) Lab at the Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Denver seeks a candidate to fill one Post-Doctoral Researcher position. This is a one-year position, with potential for renewal subject to availability of funds. The desired start date is September 1, 2026. Position Summary: The post-doctoral associate will be a full-time, 12-month employee of the University of Denver. The post-doctoral researcher will work closely with and be supervised by Dr. Alannah Oleson in the Department of Computer Science and can expect to collaborate with grant-funded projects with Drs. Benjamin Xie (University of Denver), Matthew Barr, Maria Kallia (University of Glasgow), and Bedour Alshaigy (Uppsala University). Essential Functions: The candidate will primarily work on interdisciplinary projects to examine how computing students develop and enact ethical agency within the context of human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience (UX) design education. The candidate is expected to have a strong background in one or more of the following areas: research methods and design, q...