Academic ConnectDuties
IBF’s senior lecturers are research-focused. The work duties mainly include conducting, planning, and leading research at a high international level with a focus on housing and urban geography. The work includes strategic research initiatives related to the whole institute. Teaching and teaching administration in the form of, for example, lectures, examinations, supervision, and course responsibility at the Department of Human Geography are included in the position at 20 percent of full-time employment.
As a research institute and a “national resource,” IBF has high goals when it comes to collaboration and communication with the surrounding society. The position includes actively participating in such activities. It can also include administrative and leadership duties.
Required qualifications
To qualify for appointment as a senior lecturer, you must have been awarded a PhD in Human Geography or (Urban) Planning, or have equivalent research competence, have demonstrated teaching expertise, be able to work with other people and otherwise meet the suitability requirements needed to competently perform the research-oriented duties.
Your research expertise, teaching expertise and professional skills must be relevant to the position as specified, and to the research-oriented duties that will be included in the position.
To be eligible for the position, you must have a documented ability to teach in Swedish or English.
However, anyone who only speaks English at the start of their employment must be able to teach in Swedish within two years.
Assessment criteria: scientific and pedagogical skills
When selecting among qualified applicants, weight will be given to research and teaching expertise. Since the duties of a senior lecturer at IBF mainly consist of conducting and leading research, research proficiency will be the most important criterion in the appointment to this position.
Applicants must have demonstrated research expertise by independent research contributions of high international standard. The applicant’s contributions to the international and national scholarly community will be assessed on the basis of the quality and scope of scholarly publications, among other criteria.
When assessing research expertise, research quality will be the principal consideration. The scope of the research, meaning primarily its depth and breadth, will also be taken into account. Furthermore, consideration will be given to the ability to plan, initiate, lead and develop research and third-cycle (doctoral) education, the ability to obtain research funding in competition, as well as the ability to collaborate through research with external stakeholders in the surrounding society.
Particular weight will be given to research expertise in housing and urban geography.
Because IBF is a multidisciplinary research institute, experience and qualifications in multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research will be particularly valued in the recruitment process for this position.
Teaching expertise will be evaluated as carefully as research expertise. Teaching expertise must be well documented to make it possible to assess quality. When assessing teaching expertise, the quality of teaching will be the principal consideration. The scope of teaching experience, in terms of both breadth and depth, will also be taken into account, as will the ability to plan, initiate, lead and develop education, and the ability to base teaching on research.
Assessment criteria: other expertise
Administrative and management expertise are important for the position and will be accorded significant weight.
Administrative expertise may be demonstrated by the ability to plan, organise and prioritise work in an efficient and appropriate way, and the ability to specify and keep to timetables. Expertise in this area includes overall operational planning, the ability to manage resources in a way that reflects operational priorities, and the ability to work in a structured manner based on awareness of goals and quality. Management expertise is demonstrated by the ability to lead operations and staff, make decisions, take responsibility and motivate others, providing them with the conditions needed for the efficient achievement of shared goals. Expertise may also be demonstrated by the ability to coordinate a group, to help create a sense of involvement, participation and job satisfaction, and to deal with conflicts.
As IBF is a “national resource” and has high goals in terms of collaboration with the surrounding community, experience and merits in collaboration and communication with external community stakeholders will be particularly valued in the recruitment process for this position.
All qualifications must be documented in a manner that makes it possible to assess both their quality and their scope.
When the University appoints new staff, it will select the applicants who, upon a qualitative overall assessment of their competence and expertise, are judged to have the best potential to perform and develop the duties concerned and to contribute to the positive development of the department/institute.
In this recruitment, the recruitment committee may make use of interviews, trial lectures and references. Applicants should therefore provide a list of reference persons who can shed light on the applicant’s professional proficiency and on personal qualities that are relevant to the position, such as team-working abilities, leadership abilities and working methods.
Personal circumstances (parental leave, part-time employment because of childcare, union responsibilities, military service, etc.) that may be considered to the applicant’s advantage when evaluating qualifications should be indicated in connection with the account of qualifications and experiences.
Application process: A complete application is to be submitted via Uppsala University’s recruitment system and should comprise:
- Letter of application
- List of attachments
- Curriculum vitae
- Presentation of research qualifications
- List of publications
- Presentation of educational qualifications
- Presentation of other qualifications
- A clear account of the scope of your teaching experience, expressed in number of hours
- Scholarly (maximum 10) and (if any) educational publications cited
- List of reference persons (name, contact details, previous working relationship)
Instructions for drawing up the application are available in Faculty of Social Sciences Supplementary Guidelines (section 7a).