Aug. 19 last day to apply: Professor/chair in economic history, Dep. of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden
Professor/chair in economic history, Dep. of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Deadline August 19, 2021
Starting date by agreement
For additional information on the appointment, please contact:
Head of Department Fredrik Sandgren, tel +46 (0)18-471 1225, e-mail Fredrik.sandgren@ekhist.uu.se
Professor Anders Ögren, tel. +46 (0)18-471 4276, e-mail anders.ogren@ekhist.uu.se
For questions regarding the application process, please contact:
Karin Andersson Schiebe, +46 (0)18-471 6122, samfak@samfak.uu.se.
The Department of Economic History is a subject within the Social Science Faculty with a relatively large body of research. The department has c. 45 employees. About 15 Doctoral students are active at the department. The doctoral programme is partly done as a collaboration with other departments of economic history in Sweden. The research profile at the department is focused on themes such as financial and business history, industrial relations, the history of modern economic thought, agrarian history, consumption and retail history and science and technology studies. Research is internationalized and largely externally funded.
Principal duties
General responsibility in collaboration with other professors, for research in the discipline, education at the Ph.D. level, as well as further development of research and doctoral studies in the discipline of economic history. Teaching and tutoring at all levels. Own research. Supplying information about research and development in the discipline, as well as planning and leading research projects (including applying for research grants). Administrative assignments, including managerial duties, at the department and other levels within Uppsala University could be called for.
Qualifications required
The eligibility criteria for employment as a professor are expertise in research and teaching within the discipline of economic history (Higher Education Ordinance Ch 4 Sec 3). Research expertise should be demonstrated through independent research and through research activities of high international and national quality. The applicant should demonstrate well-documented skills in planning, initiating and managing research projects, including the ability to secure competitive research grants, and aptitude in the supervision of Ph.D. students.
Teaching skills should be demonstrated through well-documented merits in teaching. In addition, applicants should be able to demonstrate a well-documented ability in supervision at undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. levels, as well as meeting the criteria stated in the Uppsala University's appointment regulations (section 33) and the Faculty of Social Sciences’ complementary guidelines (section 2b).
Skills in research, teaching as well as general professional skills should be relevant for the discipline of economic history and the duties included in the position.
Under Uppsala University’s appointment regulations, it is also a general eligibility requirement that teachers possess the personal qualities necessary to capably perform the duties of the post.
Applicants must have the ability to teach in Swedish and English. Any appointee who is only proficient in one of these languages at the start of employment must be able to also teach in the other language within two years.
Important practical issues
Please note that all merits must be documented in a manner that makes it possible to assess both quality and scope/quantity. A very important criteria for being considered at all is that (unless special circumstances exist) the applicant should have served as the primary supervisor for at least one Ph.D. student and supervised this student through completion and defence of their doctoral thesis. From previous experience we stress the importance of attaching well documented proof of Ph.D. supervision, teaching and pedagogical training or well-argued and well documented special circumstances relating to these criteria.
It is vital that applicants read the more detailed information about the process of application presented as links in the formal announcement. Please note that the formal process is handled by the Faculty of Social Sciences, not the department in itself. You are however welcome to pose any questions to the departmental contacts stated above.
Fredrik Sandgren
Associate professor/Head of department
Dep. of Economic History, Uppsala University
P.O. Box 513
75120 Uppsala, Sweden
+46-18-4711225
fredrik.sandgren@ekhist.uu.se
