Lunds universitet, Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.

Gender and sexuality are central nodes to explore both the construction of boundaries (ethnic, national, and religious), old and new forms of inequalities and exclusion and emerging forms of political subjectivities, conviviality and solidarity. While the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University gathers scholars from diverse disciplines working within diverse theoretical and methodological traditions, the Department shares a commitment to a critical and emancipatory tradition of understanding social change and promoting equality through knowledge production.

Principal duties

The principal duty is to build and support the research environment, both internally, and through national and international collaboration. The duties consist of research, education and supervision at all levels, research leadership, active responsibility for the continued development of both research and teaching, as well as everyday collegial participation, including leadership and administration.

One particularly important duty is to develop the department’s research profile. This includes applying for larger external research grants, generating and developing networks nationally and internationally. The professor will be a major representative for Gender Studies.

Teaching will be conducted in Swedish and English. If the successful applicant has a first language other than Swedish (Danish or Norwegian), she or he will be expected to have acquired sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language (spoken and written) within two years, to be able to teach in Swedish and actively participate in administrative and other relevant activities conducted in Swedish.


Qualification requirements

A person who has demonstrated both research and teaching expertise shall be qualified for employment as a professor (Higher Education Ordinance chapter 4, section 3).

To be qualified the applicant must have supervised at least one doctoral student up to the completion of his or her PhD.

Research production shall be current and develop the field of Gender Studies. The research production during the last five years will be of particular importance. Scholarly proficiency must be demonstrated through: current original research resulting in publication at a high international level in the field of Gender Studies, international scholarly visibility in the field, the ability to obtain research grants, lead research projects, and supervise post docs and doctoral students.

While gender scholarship is well established in most fields, Gender Studies as an academic discipline embodies a critical tradition with a rich and heterogenous genealogy creating a transdisciplinary space for the exploration of gender and sexuality. A requirement for the position is that the candidates are located within the discipline of Gender Studies and that the candidate’s work further develop this tradition.

Documented ability to develop research fields at the cutting edge of gender scholarship is required. Scholarly proficiency should be demonstrated through the ability to attract external research funding, lead research groups, and supervision of post docs and doctoral students.

The applicant should have documented skills in collaboration with actors outside academia and active participation in networks inside and outside of the academy.

Teaching expertise is demonstrated through the ability to create engagement and interest in the subject area. Teaching staff at Lund University must also comply with the general qualification requirements of being suited to and having the general ability required to complete the duties of the post well.

The applicant is to have completed at least five weeks of training in teaching and learning in higher education or have equivalent knowledge that has been acquired in some other way, unless there are special reasons to the contrary. Applicants who have not studied teaching and learning in higher education are expected to take such a course within one year of taking up the position.

Assessment criteria

It is of the utmost importance that the applicant is established as an independent researcher at a high international level through: publications in prominent international research journals and publishing houses, having been awarded research grants as the principal investigator, documented experience of building and leading creative research environments, documented national and international research collaboration, supervision of post docs and doctoral students.

The applicant shall have a very good ability to lead and develop research environments creatively and innovatively.

The applicant shall demonstrate very good teaching abilities and experience with teaching and supervision at all levels.

The applicant shall also have a good ability to engage with wider society and dissemination.

Application procedure
Guidelines concerning design of application, Academic Qualifications Portfolio

 

Type of employment Permanent position
Contract type Full time
Number of positions 1
Full-time equivalent 100
City Lund
County Skåne län
Country Sweden
Reference number PA2020/1261
Contact
  • Anders Kirchner, +46 46 222 7206
Union representative
  • OFR/ST:Fackförbundet ST:s kansli, 046-222 93 62
  • SACO:Saco-s-rådet vid Lunds universitet, 046-222 93 64
  • SEKO: Seko Civil, 046-222 93 66
Published 20.May.2020
Last application date 23.Jun.2020 11:59 PM CEST

Return to job vacancies