Job opportunity: Professor in Design Management

Type of employment: Permanent post 
Extent: 100 % 
Location: School of Design and Crafts, Göteborg 
First day of employment:
20140901 or according to agreement
Reference number:   PER 2013/391
Last day of application: march 31st 2014

 
Thanks to a generous donation from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation, the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, in collaboration with the School of Business, Economics and Law, is delighted to be able to announce a vacancy for a position with the title: the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Chair in Design Management.
 
Högskolan för design och konsthantverk, HDK, School of Design and Crafts, which acts as the host department for the Business & Design Lab, has a long tradition of education in the fields of design and crafts. The school was founded in1848 and became a part of the University of Gothenburg in 1977. The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts was founded in 2000, and is now made up of the following three departments: HDK School of Design and Crafts, Valand Academy and the Academy of Music and Drama.
 
The Business and Design Lab (BDL), which gained official status as a Centre of Expertise and Research in 2010, is an interdisciplinary research collaboration involving a number of senior researchers and doctoral students from HDK, School of Design and Crafts and the School of Business, Economics and Law. The overall purpose of BDL is to explore and develop new knowledge that may emerge from combining artistic design practice with theory from the social sciences and the humanities, in order to try this knowledge out in the real world. We work in close collaboration with the Business & Design Master’s Programme at ‘HDK’, which acts as an experimentation platform and a source of new research projects and collaborations.
 
We are seeking candidates with documented academic skills, and with the ability and interest in contributing to, and being a part of, building a creative and complete environment where education, research and cooperation/outreach activities interact and support each other both artistically and scientifically.
 
Subject area
Design Management
 
Specific subject description
As we seek to continuously reformulate what “design” and “management” are, as well as what the combination of design and management could become, the Business and Design Lab aspires to gain a critical, scholarly and artistically inspired edge within the international design management discourse. Our approach combines methods and attitudes from design practice with management research. Through interaction and dialogue with professionals in various organisations, creative industries and communities, we orchestrate, participate in, and study processes that challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and procedures. In this endeavour, we view design primarily as an artistic practice, and use management primarily as an umbrella term for the various activities that involve the coordination and organisation of people, activities and artefacts, as well as it being a rich source of theoretical perspectives and practical experiments.
 
We do, however, wish to emphasise that the Business and Design Lab is not constrained by disciplinary boundaries but is essentially cooperative and interdisciplinary in nature, striving to find inspiration in a number of different fields, such as philosophy, for example. The development of an understanding of knowledge that can acknowledge and account for the aesthetic, embodied and process-based aspects of practice and research as well as other forms of inquiry, which are addressed in research texts and commonly understood in organisations, makes up the core of our research activities.
 
Job assignments
- playing a prominent role in internal and external academic activities, both in terms of academic leadership and representation
- besides being an active part of research activities, you will also be required to lead research projects and be responsible for the publication and communication of research results
- strengthening education and research connectivity.
Other important tasks include:
- applying for research funding in collaboration with others
- participating in the development of the Business & Design master’s programme and the development of doctoral courses
- supervising master’s and doctoral students who have a background either in the field of design or in the management field 
- supervising and examining degree projects at master’s level 
- promoting collaboration with diverse actors in varying contexts within and outside of the University of Gothenburg. An important element in this work is to play an active role in developing the collaboration between the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, ´HDK´ and the School of Business, Economics and Law, within the design management research field, as well as strengthening the academic profile of ‘HDK’.
 
Eligibility
The qualifications for academic positions are given in Chapter 4, Section 3 - 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance.
 
Assessment
- research skills, demonstrated through international publication and other academic communication contexts 
- documented successful supervision of master’s and doctoral students
- demonstrated ability to be granted external research funding from national and/or international grantors of funds
- documented skills in teaching at undergraduate, master’s and doctoral level within the field, as well as development of new courses and programmes, supervision and examination of degree projects, and organisation of, and participation in, doctoral courses
- documented ability to build up, develop, and lead a complete, academic research environment 
- documented ability to collaborate with other people
- documented ability to lead and administer teaching
- documented ability to research and cooperation with the surrounding society
- documented ability to disseminate information on research and development work
Specific Qualifications:
- specific, and equal, weight will be attached to scholarly proficiency and experience of artistic practice
- documentation of active participation in art and design communities within research and practice that focus the role and participation of art and design in contexts of change and innovation – in business and society
- a critically informed understanding of the potential contribution of art and design to change and innovation in business and society
- professional experience of art and/or arts-based design practice, or having developed an advanced and expressed understanding of artistic practice, for example through philosophy, practice theory or theory of knowledge
- experience of experimental and artistic research methodologies
- experience of leading interdisciplinary and experimental research organisations
 
Other
Applicants must have received or will be expected to receive training in Higher Education Teaching, or have documented evidence of having acquired equivalent knowledge in another way
Applicants are expected to be able to teach in English. Applicants who cannot teach in Swedish are expected to be able to do so within three years of taking up their position. Non Swedish speaking candidates will be supported to be able to teach in Swedish during these three years.
 
The University will primarily pay regard to the applicant who, in an overall evaluation, is considered to have the best qualifications to carry out and develop the duties and tasks listed above.
 
The selection process will, among other things, include evaluation by international external experts. Interviews, trial lectures and references are other bases for selection that will be used.
 
 
Instructions for applicants
You apply online via University of Gothenburg Job opportunities - The job application portal:

http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/?languageId=100001&disableRedirect=true&returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gu.se%2Fomuniversitetet%2Faktuellt%2Fledigaanstallningar%2F%3Fid%3D19144%26Dnr%3D565232%26Type%3DS&Dnr=565232&Type=S

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For further information about the job please contact senior lecturer in design
Marcus Jahnke, 00 46 31-7864147 
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For further information about the recruitementprocess please contact
Elisabeth Welander, 00 46 31-786 48 85
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