Post Doctoral Research Associate, Household Finance and Consumer Financial Decision Making Post

Organization

University of Colorado Boulder - Boulder, CO

Boulder, CO

12 Mar 2025

Job Summary:

The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder is hiring two Post Doctoral Research Associate positions for Fall 2025. Both positions are part of the Leeds School Research Initiative for Global Business and Citizen Well-Being. One position is in Household Finance in the interdisciplinary Center for Research in Consumer Financial Decision Making. The second is in Business and Sustainability in the interdisciplinary Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility.

Each position is a 2-year appointment.

The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities. We welcome international applicants.

What We Require: To be eligible, candidates must complete their PhD by July prior to starting the fellowship and must be able to be in residence at the University of Colorado by August of 2025.

The strongest candidates will be those whose research interests align closely with Leeds faculty and where the postdoc and faculty member can foresee developing joint research relating to themes of the Leeds School Initiative for Global Business and Citizen Well-Being. For the Household Finance position, we encourage applicants to look at the Affiliated Faculty webpage for the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making.

For the Business and Sustainability position, we encourage applicants to look at the Affiliate Faculty webpage for the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility.

Application Instructions: To apply for this position, please submit the following materials to this portal:
1) Cover Letter explaining qualifications and interests related to the Initiative
2) Two-page research proposal
3) Curriculum Vitae/Resume
4) Two published or working papers
5) Two letters of recommendation. During the application process you will need to enter contact information for two references who will be contacted to provide a letter of recommendation immediately as part of the application process.

All applications must be submitted electronically to the job portal. Full consideration will be given to applications submitted by April 15. This position will remain open until filled. Apply through this link for the Household Finance position: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Detail/?=62544. Apply through this link for the Business and Sustainability position:  Detail/?=62547.

Who We Are:

The University of Colorado at Boulder, and the city of Boulder, offers a rich intellectual, cultural, recreational, and family-friendly environment. Boulder is widely recognized as an entrepreneurial hub, with active venture capital, technology, natural foods, and renewable energy sectors; it is consistently recognized as one of the best places to live in the United States. The University of Colorado and the Leeds School of Business are nationally recognized for the excellence of our faculty, programs, and students.

Our faculty engage in interdisciplinary research spanning all areas of business scholarship.

The Household Finance scholar will join the interdisciplinary Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making. The Center conducts basic and applied research about how consumer welfare is affected by financial decisions that take place in systems created by business and government policies. People make decisions about housing and mortgages; save for college education or retirement; invest in their own human capital development to provide a stream of financial benefits over time;

borrow to fund current consumption; decide which debts to pay first and how much to pay on each. They make risky investments to achieve higher wealth; pay for insurance to reduce risk; pay for health care; and cope with shocks. Center research advances understanding of how consumers make such decisions and how they can be helped to make better decisions through innovations in public policy, business, and consumer education.

The Business and Sustainability scholar will join the interdisciplinary Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, which brings together scholars researching how business can contribute to human and environmental sustainability through initiatives in:
Clean energy transition, Climate change mitigation, Disaster relief and recovery, Environmental protection, Healthcare access, Poverty alleviation, Sustainable finance and reporting, Employer contributions to employee well-being, Social or environmental entrepreneurship.

In both positions, the scholar…