[ecrea] Five associate professor or professor posts in the New Social Research programme - Tampere University

http://www.uta.fi/nsr/professorposts.html

Five associate professor or professor posts in the New Social Research 
programme

The University of Tampere is an internationally renowned research-led 
university and one of the few in the world to specialise in the social 
sciences.  It has a lively, multidisciplinary and international research 
environment with a staff of 2.200 and 15.000 students.

The University places strong emphasis on rigorous scholarship in areas 
of significant social relevance. To help achieve this objective, the 
University has commenced the New Social Research programme. NSR has five 
core themes: governing complexity; transformation of agency and 
empowerment; the changing nature of work; the future of well-being, and; 
new forms of communication, information and interaction. NSR will become 
a truly international programme, working across disciplinary boundaries 
and in partnership with a wide range of external stakeholders nationally 
and internationally. More information on NSR is available at the 
programme website.

At the centre of the programme are eleven fully-funded associate or full 
professor posts. The director, Professor Rebecca Boden, and the first 
six appointments are already in place. The University of Tampere is now 
seeking to complete the team by appointing a further five associate or 
full professors. Appointees will have dual affiliation between NSR and 
an appropriate faculty, ensuring a clear career trajectory, and at the 
end of this period it is anticipated that they will take up permanent 
posts in one of the University’s faculties, as appropriate.

The University of Tampere is seeking highly motivated and accomplished 
academics who will be active and innovative co-builders of the NSR 
programme as research leaders. In addition to developing a strong 
individual research profile within the broad remit of NSR’s activities, 
you would work collaboratively with fellow NSR researchers to achieve 
significant programme synergies. Activities would include: effective 
research leadership (particularly of early career academics); 
facilitating the development of the NSR profile nationally and 
internationally; and seeking, winning and managing major research 
funding. A key role of the NSR programme is to make a major contribution 
to the further development of the University’s research profile more 
generally. As such, you would be expected to work collaboratively and 
constructively with appropriate faculties to embed programme gains 
across the institution.  Whilst the main emphasis of these roles for the 
first five years is on research, you would be expected to make a 
gradually increasing and expertise-appropriate contribution to 
research-led teaching, curriculum development and research student 
supervision in the faculties.

What you can offer

You must have: a doctoral degree in a field relevant to the research 
programme; high-level scientific expertise; an excellent international 
publication record; and teaching/supervision skills and experience 
across the range of levels.

Additionally, successful candidates will have a proven track record of 
international scientific cooperation, and the ability to offer advanced 
research-led teaching and supervision. Your research interests will be 
aligned to one or more themes in the NSR programme, but you will be able 
to demonstrate how you would develop those further. NSR especially 
welcomes applications under the theme the changing nature of work and is 
less likely to make any appointments of candidates whose principal 
contribution would be in the theme governing complexity.

Your proposed work for the duration of the programme will evidence a 
good fit with NSR objectives and how you would work in an inter- and 
multidisciplinary environment. Ideally you will have experience of 
leading or making a major contribution to a research group and a track 
record of successful applications for external research funding.

What we offer

The University of Tampere offers a dynamic and international research 
community with strong national and international collaborative networks. 
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Tampere University of 
Technology (TUT) and the University of Tampere have recently agreed to 
merge and will be working collaboratively together to build a unique 
model of higher education offering an innovative, multidisciplinary and 
internationally attractive research and learning environment built on 
demonstrably excellent foundations.  Appointment to NSR offers an 
opportunity to develop, lead and maintain a dynamic research programme 
leading to national and international recognition within this environment.

Finnish people almost universally speak English to a high level. Finland 
is a well-ordered and culturally sophisticated EU country which enjoys 
world-leading free schooling (including in English), affordable child 
care, excellent public services, moderate taxation and low levels of 
bureaucracy.  The Tampere region is one of the fastest-growing urban 
areas in Finland. Tampere is the largest inland city in the Nordic 
countries and Finland’s second largest city. The city offers an 
extremely pleasant environment in which to live and work. Whilst a 
traditional industrial centre, with an attractive heritage built 
environment, today the city is best known for its high-tech expertise. 
The city has a lively cultural life, with many theatres, galleries and 
museums etc. and is the most popular city to study in amongst Finnish 
students.

We appreciate that relocation can be daunting and the University’s HR 
Services provide intensive support for international recruits, 
especially on matters such as residence permits, registration, taxation, 
retirement pensions, social security issues, finding accommodation, 
daycare for children, schooling, health care and other local services in 
Tampere. You can contact the International HR Team 
((international.hr /at/ uta.fi)) during your application process with any 
specific queries or see our Join us!-pages on our website. The 
University of Tampere received the European Commission’s acknowledgement 
of HR Excellence in Research in March 2015.

The University of Tampere offers a comprehensive package of employee 
benefits. These include occupational health care, flexible working hours 
and high-quality sporting facilities. These posts include membership of 
the generous Finnish statutory earnings-related retirement pension 
scheme, further details of which are available here.

Finnish universities operate a national University Salary System and 
salaries will be determined by reference to that. At commencement, the 
minimum monthly salary of an associate professor will range between 
€5.000 and €5.600 a month and that of a professor between €5.700 and 
€6.400 a month. Higher salaries may be agreed dependent upon experience 
and/or performance.

These post are subject to a four month probationary period. Initial 
appointment as associate professor is for five years and, subject to 
successful performance, post holders will become tenured members of 
faculty staff at the end of the five year period. The evaluation of 
suitability for a tenured position will commence after four years in 
post and appointees will be supported throughout the five year period to 
ease transition to faculty positions.  Full professors will hold a 
permanent appointment from the outset.

The application process

Applications should be written in English and submitted electronically 
via the University of Tampere’s electronic recruitment system by 15:45 
pm. on 2 May 2017.

The following documents should accompany your application:

    A CV (excluding publications).

    A list of publications compiled according to the Academy of Finland 
guidelines. Please indicate your ten most important publications.

    A letter of application in which you set out the reasons why you 
are applying for the post and why you are particularly suited to it.

    A five page research plan, outlining your proposed research within 
the programme.

    The names, positions and contact details of two referees who can 
support your application.

Enquiries

For queries related to the NSR programme please contact the Programme 
Director, Professor Rebecca Boden ((Rebecca.Boden /at/ uta.fi))

For queries related to the application process please contact the 
Faculty Head of Administration Sari Saastamoinen ((sari.saastamoinen /at/ uta.fi))

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