Full Professor in Education - language and litterature - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Are you interested in contributing with your experience and expertise to our department and its research into the teaching and learning of language and literature? If so, you may well be the professor in education who we seek!

The Department of Language and Communication at the School of Education and Communication administrates all teacher training programmes oriented toward literature and languages as well as the media and communication science programmes. Research in the department is organised into two groups: Communication, Culture and Diversity (CCD) and Sustainable Journalism. The sought professor of education will be a member of the CCD-group.

The CCD Group is an international and network-based research group with an inter-disciplinary ambition where scholars in language sciences (various language disciplines including multi-lingualism and literacy), special education, communication science and education pursue their research. Scholars co-operate between disciplines, with international colleagues and with different societal stakeholders. Members of the group have one common research theme: Inclusive communicative practices in and outside of school as well as in a global society where media are ubiquitous. The current investment project LedDMe (Learning, Digitalisation and Media) further strengthens our education and research efforts in focusing on communication in a global society and its relationship to literature and languages.

Work specifications
As professor in education with an orientation toward language and literature you will pursue your own research, initiate research and lead research in areas combining literature, language, diversity, digitalisation, education and communication.

You are expected to lead and develop the CCD thematic research group in co-operation with its members resulting in both new projects and course development together with stakeholders both in the academic world and in society as a whole. You will also be in charge of our strategic Learning, Digitalisation and Media (LedDMe) Project.

As professor you will supervise doctoral students in addition to support your colleagues in their professional development. With the professorship also comes teaching, examinations and quality assessment of courses on both advanced and research levels. Occasionally you will also take part in first-degree basic-level courses.

Note that we consider it important that you also lead and initiate research and development work in co-operation with external stakeholders. You will also participate in the development of the university as a whole as well as actively seek external research funding.

Qualifications
As professor you are expected to develop and apply the knowledge of your field and to demonstrate originality and creativity in your scientific endeavours. You are expected to possess competence contributing to the unique academic ethos of Jönköping University based on co-operation, entrepreneurship, innovation and internationalisation.

To be formally qualified to apply for a professorship you must have gained a bona fide doctoral degree in education or in a relevant academic field. You will need to present documentation demonstrating your experience of academic leadership as well as an ability to plan, organise and manage a team, its members and their pursued research. You must also present documentation that you have successfully supervised at least two doctoral students and that you have obtained specific training in research supervision or, alternatively, have gained equivalent experience and knowledge. We expect you to be a skilled teacher as documented by demonstrating examples of course development and quality assessments of which you have been in charge.

Together with your application you will also need to add evidence of having successfully attracted external and competitive research funding and being able to demonstrate a willingness, and a flair for, co-operating with others both on and off campus. We would prefer that you will be a professor who makes a particular effort in popularising and communicating knowledge to the surrounding society in the areas of relevance for this professorship.

As an individual you have an ability to establish and maintain regional, national and international networks for research and co-operation beneficial for the department and its research and teaching. You are also skilled in initiating, organising and leading research groups and projects in inter-disciplinary settings with an ambition to be inclusive and support less experienced scholars in their work.

Since Jönköping University and its School of Education and communication attract colleagues and students from all corners of the World it is essential that you are proficient in communicating effectively both in English and in Swedish. It is a merit if you also are able to be scholarly active in a third or more languages.

Employment conditions
The professorship is a permanent full-time position. All academic positions, however, have an initial six-month probationary period before a position becomes legally permanent as per contract.

Working conditions for all employees are decided jointly between Unions and University management.

You begin your work at Jönköping University as agreed.

How to apply
Your application should be made via our online recruitment system no later that 15 April 2019. It must include all of the following—files in PDF-format are preferred:

1. A cover letter in which you explain why you have applied for this particular position
2. A full Curriculum Vitae
3. A certified diploma of your doctoral degree
4. Certified evidence of completed training on how to teach and supervise research in higher education (or its equivalent)
5. A formal and complete list of your merits
6. Your most important studies, published in peer-reviewed journals and relevant to the applied-for position, should be submitted in full text. Note that no more than 10 texts may be submitted
7. A complete list of publications
8. A brief outline of potential research projects relevant to the research team with which you intend to work
9. Also, provide the names and contact details of three independent referees whom the university may contact and who have also agreed to act as your referees
10. In addition, propose the level of salary which you intend to negotiate for