The University of Helsinki – among the best in the world
Founded in 1640, the University of Helsinki is one of the best multidisciplinary research universities in the world. The University of Helsinki is an international academic community of 40,000 students and staff members. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and at 15 other locations. The high-quality research carried out by the university creates new knowledge for educating diverse specialists in various fields, and for utilisation in social decision-making and the business sector.
The Faculty of Social Sciences is Finland’s leading research and education institute in the social sciences, and the country’s most diverse social sciences faculty in terms of the selection of its disciplines and fields of science. The Faculty includes two departments, the Department of Social Research and the Department of Political and Economic Studies, together featuring 13 disciplines, as well as several multidisciplinary research networks. The Faculty has more than 4,000 degree students, of whom close to 700 are pursuing a postgraduate degree. Each year, the Faculty awards some 400 Bachelor’s degrees, 350 Master’s degrees and more than 40 doctoral degrees. For more information, please see the Faculty website at http://www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/.
The Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the tenure track position of
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
in social and cultural anthropology.
The position is in the discipline of social and cultural anthropology, which has two professorships and two university lectureships in addition to the current assistant professorship. The University of Helsinki’s discipline of social and cultural anthropology concentrates on the comparative, ethnographic examination of cultural diversity and social formations. The research analyses the historical, spatial and material conditions of human life as well as aesthetic, communicative, political, cognitive, technological and religious phenomena. The discipline has a total of some 50 researchers and doctoral students and annually awards one or two doctorates and 13–17 Master’s degrees. Despite its small size, the discipline is Finland’s largest anthropological research unit and an active research community that attracts highly talented students and that hosts several extensive research projects.
The University has established the tenure track system of teaching and research staff to employ talented and motivated individuals as assistant professors for a fixed term of three to five years. The assistant professor’s performance during the contract period will be monitored and evaluated against criteria determined when the contract was signed. Success in the evaluation will lead to new fixed-term employment as associate professor, the ultimate goal being permanent employment as a professor.
The assistant/associate professor is expected to conduct top-level international research, provide teaching based on such research, participate in doctoral education and the development of teaching, and acquire research funding.
An appointee to an assistant/associate professorship shall hold a doctoral degree, have the ability to conduct independent scholarly work and have the teaching skills necessary for the position. Other requirements include the ability and motivation to pursue a scientific career, as demonstrated through publications or otherwise. Applicants familiar with a wide range of anthropological research and scholarly discussion in the field as well as research experience in ethnography will be highly appreciated. In addition, scholarly work outside Finland and other international experience, high-quality international publications, active international collaboration networks and teaching merits as well as success in the acquisition of external research funding will be given particular consideration. Additional merit may be granted for regional specialisation that supplements the expertise of the discipline’s staff, which currently focuses on East Africa, Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America. The appointee will primarily teach within the Bachelor’s and Master’s Programmes in Society and Change as well as the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences.
According to the Government Decree on Universities, assistant/associate professors must be proficient in Finnish. They must also have at least satisfactory spoken and written skills in Swedish. Foreign citizens, non-native Finnish citizens or citizens who have not been educated in Finnish or Swedish may be exempted from this requirement without a separate application. To successfully attend to the duties of the position, the appointee must have good English skills. Foreign citizens or Finnish citizens who have not been educated in Finnish or Swedish are expected to be willing to acquire sufficient proficiency in Finnish. The employer will support the appointee’s language learning.
The salary will be based on level 7 of the requirement scheme for teaching and research positions in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee will receive a salary component based on personal work performance. The assistant/associate professor’s gross starting salary will be approximately €4,400–5,100 euros per month, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and merits.
The following English-language documents must be enclosed with applications:
• A curriculum vitae
• A list of publications, www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/administration/positions/open
• An informal report (max. 5 pages) on the applicant’s scholarly activities (activities in the scientific community, success in obtaining research funding and international research experience)
• A report on teaching experience and merits (max. 3 pages, e.g., an academic portfolio:www.helsinki.fi/socialsciences/administration/positions/open
• A brief report (1–2 pages) on how the applicant intends to develop his or her research and focus his or her scholarly activities, if appointed
Shortlisted candidates may be asked by the Faculty to submit 10 publications for assessment after the application period, and applicants are kindly asked to be prepared for this request. Applicants must save these publications in the University’s electronic recruitment system as attachments to their application and they should indicate these documents on their list of publications.
Applications must be submitted through the University’s electronic recruitment system by clicking on the link below. Internal applicants (i.e., current employees of the University of Helsinki) must submit their applications through the SAP HR portal.
Further information about the position may be obtained from Professor Keijo Rahkonen, Head of the Department of Social Research, phone +358 50 416 0618, keijo.rahkonen(at)helsinki.fi.
Apply at latest 30.10.2016
Read more: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/assistantassociate-professor-in-social-and-cultural-anthropology-the-faculty-of-social-sciences
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