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A professorship in medical anthropology is open for application at the Linköping University, Sweden. The final date of application is April 28 this year. The department is a graduate department called Department of Health and Society which includes units from both the philosophical and the medical faculty. Details of the post below.
 

 
LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY
Professor of Health and Society 
at the Department of Health and Society, with specialization in anthropology and foreign cultures
Duties
The position of Professor involves teaching, research and administrative duties, which includes teaching undergraduate courses for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as well as acting as research advisor, undertaking research management and performing research.Qualifications
A Doctorate degree or a corresponding foreign degree is required. The successful candidate should have scientific merits of relevance to research in the area of social and cultural dimensions of health and disease. Demonstrated pedagogic skill, the ability to collaborate, and the ability to participate in projects of interdisciplinary character are required. Grounds for assessment
The grounds for preference when offering a position as a teaching member of staff involve such scientific, pedagogical, administrative and other skills, which are deemed important with respect to the subject content of the area and the nature of the position in general. Importance is also given to the ability to communicate on research and development. For the appointment to the position of Professor special emphasis is paid on scientific and pedagogical ability. 

The successful candidate must have documented scientific ability in his or her own research field and also have demonstrated ability in achieving research results in cooperation with other researchers as well as the ability to inform others about research results. 

Pedagogical ability can be demonstrated in one or more of the following ways: by subject-related and pedagogical development of graduate and undergraduate courses, by teaching, by tutoring, by conducting examinations for such courses and by the development of teaching materials. Pedagogic ability can also be demonstrated by student counselling. Administrative ability can be shown in one or more of the following ways: by the planning and management of research, graduate and undergraduate education, by overall planning of operations and also by staff planning and management. 

The University needs the skills and experience of both women and men in its various activities. The University therefore welcomes applications from both women and men to all types of positions. In the case of applicants being regarded as having the same merits in general, precedence will be given to the female applicant. Appointment Programme
The Department of Health and Society conducts research, education and commissioned activities concerning conditions related to the health of individuals, groups and populations. These activities are based on and are aimed at the further development of knowledge in the areas of medicine, the humanities, the social sciences and technology. The Department spans the three large faculties comprising Linköping University: the Institute of Technology, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The divisions included in the Department are Primary Care, the Center for Medical Technology Assessment, the National Centre for Work and Rehabilitation, the Division of Physiotherapy, Social Medicine and Public Health Science, and Tema Health and Society. The divisions carry out their own teaching and research activities but also collaborate with one another in a collective research school. An interdisciplinary approach is aimed at in the research school with the goal of integrating knowledge, theories and methods from separate scientific fields in research on health and care. Research activities are currently organised within the following three areas: Social change, everyday life and health Environments of health Processes of renewal, change, decisions and health
These areas are under development and should be viewed as an introduction to formation of joint research activities in health sciences at the Department as well as between the Department and other units within and outside of Linköping University. Each area of research can in turn comprise a number of research programmes. Broad-based collaboration between researchers with different theoretical, methodological and disciplinary backgrounds is an important cornerstone for these activities.Included in this position are research and postgraduate research training, supervision, teaching, developmental and administrative work in the postgraduate research programme at the Department of Health and Society, and participation in the Department's undergraduate education. The position also encompasses responsibility for contacts with other departments within and outside Linköping University. These duties are carried out in cooperation with other co-workers at the Department of Health and Society. The position is a professorship with specialisation in medical anthropology from a humanistic or social science perspective. The successful candidate should have the ability to identify and solve research problems concerning issues of importance to society, and to communicate information about research and research results. This individual should contribute to knowledge development and theory formation regarding the changing cultural systems surrounding health, disease and death, ranging from people's everyday ideas and different systemised frameworks of knowledge to more comprehensive societal ideologies. This research can also focus on how people from different cultures live with and deal with illness and different threats toward a healthy condition. Included here are both everyday experiences and strategies of action, as well as opinions about and experiences of different health care providers. Studies of the meeting between immigrants and Swedish health care are of particular interest. The successful candidate must have documented research experience in medical anthropology and culture theory, and scientific merits of relevance to research in the area of social and cultural dimensions of health and disease. Knowledge and research concerning foreign cultural systems and groups, as well as experience from national and international comparative studies, are of merit. Great significance will be attributed to research that fulfils the requirements of being both theoretically and methodologically open/creative, as well as to efforts in new fields of knowledge. Research concerning the encounter of immigrants with Swedish health care is also of merit. The appointee should be very familiar with qualitative methods and methodology discussion and have documented experience in supervising doctoral students. The person appointed to this position should have the ability to deal with research problems requiring insight into and knowledge about theories and methods that go beyond the boundaries of his or her own discipline. For this appointment the ability to collaborate, experience in leading and participating in interdisciplinary research projects, and administrative and leadership experience are of merit. Application procedure
The appointment will be made by the Chancellor of the University on the advice of the Appointment Advisory Board. A letter of intent may be required of the applicants who will be considered further for the position. Starting date
By agreement. Salary
The University applies individual salary scales adapted to the experience of the employee and to the labour market. Please specify salary level in your application. Information
Professor Lennart Nordenfelt, phone: +46-13-28 2213, e-mail: [log in to unmask] The union representatives are Per Larsson (SACO), phone: +46-13-28 1102, e-mail: [log in to unmask] and Agneta Andersson-Berg (OFR/S), phone: +46-11-36 3512, e-mail: [log in to unmask] The Secretary of the Appointment Advisory Board, Maria Herrmann, phone: +46-13-28 1079, e-mail: [log in to unmask], can provide information on the formal procedure. Application procedure
Your application marked with the corresponding Registration number LiU 82/04-32, accompanied by a list of your personal qualifications and other documents you may wish to refer to, must reach the University Registrar no later than 2004-04-28 at the following address:

Linköpings Universitet 
Registrator 
SE-581 83 Linköping 
SWEDEN 

A later submission of complementing documents will be accepted if notice is given via e-mail [log in to unmask] prior to the above deadline.The application should be written in Swedish or English. Both scientific and pedagogical merits and activities are to be documented in the application. 

Applications are to include the following: 

1. Brief written documentation of scientific and pedagogical merits. The documentation should clearly specify which studies and results as well as other merits the applicant wishes to be taken into consideration for the application (1 copy). 

2. A certified list of qualifications including attested copies of certificates and other documents the applicant wishes to be considered (1 copy). 

3. A list of scientific work to be taken into consideration (1 copy). 

4. The scientific work to be taken into consideration (4 copies). If the Chancellor does not specify otherwise on receipt of the application, in four separate parcels so that they can be forwarded to the specialist group in the Appointment Advisory Board. 

By the expiration date of expiry for applications the applicant must deliver in those documents in accordance with point 4 that he/she wishes to be considered, or state which documents he/she wishes to be taken into consideration. In the latter case, the documents must be delivered within three weeks after the application deadline. The documents in accordance with points 1, 2 and 3 must be included with the application. 

Applications, which arrive too late, will not be considered.  


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