The Division for Language and Communication (DLC) at Chalmers is in an expansive phase, and as part of this expansion, DLC is recruiting two senior lecturers. At DLC, you will have ample opportunities to grow as a teacher and researcher. You will become part of a highly supportive and quality-conscious team that gives you good opportunities to develop within new areas as well as your areas of expertise. The research environment at the department has grown steadily over the past few years, and you will become part of a dynamic research environment.

Information about the division and the department
The department of Communication and Learning in Science (CLS) specialises in communication, engineering education, information literacy and strategic publishing. The department consists of four divisions: Engineering Education Research, Information Resources and Scientific Publishing, Language and Communication, and Learning and Learning Environments.

The Division for Language and Communication currently consists of 15 full-time employees, including one post-doc and three PhD students. The division does research within fields such as genre pedagogy, English medium-instruction (EMI), integrating content and language (ICL), intercultural communication (ICC) and self-regulated learning. The teaching of communication and group dynamics at undergraduate level is mostly integrated into engineering courses. The teaching therefore often involves being part of teams with colleagues from the division as well as from other disciplines.

The details of the departmental research activities may be found here.

Major responsibilities
The two positions involve teaching on undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels as well as research commitments. In terms of teaching, one of the positions will be focused on the teaching of academic writing for PhD students at the university, and consequently, experience of teaching topics such as writing for publication or academic writing for PhD students is meritorious. 

The second position is focused on teaching at undergraduate and Master's level, with a focus on collaborative writing. Here, experience and knowledge of team teaching, undergraduate teaching as well as group dynamics are meritorious. Both positions also includes taking part in leadership and administration. Another important aspect involves collaboration within academia and with society at large.

Your research should be devoted to fields of research relevant for the division. Applicants are requested to submit a brief proposal of one or several possible research projects or to indicate research fields of interest. These positions also come with expectations on being involved in applications for research funding.

Contract terms
Full-time permanent employment.

Qualifications
You should have a PhD degree of language and communication or a related area, for instance English linguistics, English literature or Technical communication, preferably with a focus on academic writing or composition studies. You should also have pedagogical qualification, for instance a Diploma of teaching and learning in higher education or the equivalent (in accordance with recommendations of The Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF)). Last but not least, it is requested that you have extensive experience of teaching at university level and experience of working and teaching in teams. For this reason, we place a great deal of emphasis on your pedagogical portfolio. Experience from performing academic research or qualified research in industry/the public sector is meritorious.

It is meritorious if you have sound verbal and written communication skills in Swedish and English. If Swedish is not your native language, we would like you to be able to teach in Swedish on undergraduate level after two years. Chalmers offers Swedish courses.

For a complete description of the qualifications for a senior lecturer, please read Chalmers Rules of Procedure, paragraph 7.2. 

We offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20220228 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically and be attached as pdf-files, as below:

Personal letter: (Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, Ref. number)
One page where you:
•  Introduce yourself
•  Describe your motivation for applying to this position and what attracts you about Chalmers
•  Describe how you support your colleagues and bring about a good working environment.
•  Include names and full contact information of two references that we can contact.

CV: (Please name the document as: CV, Family name, Ref. number)
• Your CV (guidelines that include Chalmers expectations of the content of your CV are found here).
• Include a list of publications (please also see the CV guidelines).

Research statement: (Please name the document as: Research statement, Family name, Ref. number)
One to three pages where you:
• Describe your previous research areas and main research results
• State your future research goals and focus.

Pedagogical qualifications: (Please name the document as: Pedagogical portfolio, Family name, Ref number)
• Please compile a pedagogical portfolio to describe your pedagogical and educational qualifications using the format specified in the Pedagogical Portfolio instructions.
• Teaching faculty at Chalmers are required to have education in higher education pedagogics in accordance with SUHF’s current recommendations. A description of how you meet these requirements needs to be presented in a separate dedicated document, “Pedagogical training qualifications”, or as part of the Pedagogical portfolio. Please follow the instructions in Pedagogical qualifications and SUHF requirements.
• Please append certificates for completed courses in pedagogical training and any other documents described in the portfolio instructions.

External applicants who currently do not meet the SUHF requirements may be employed for a permanent position under the condition that the required education is completed within the first two years of employment.

Other documents:
• Documents verifying awards and recognitions stated in your CV, and other documents relevant to support your application.
• Copies of a maximum of five relevant publications that cannot be accessed via your ORCID, Scopus ID or ResearcherID.

Please use the button at the foot of the page to reach the application form.

Application deadline: 2022-08-14

For questions, please contact:
Associate professor Andreas Eriksson, Head of Division at Language and Communication
andreas.eriksson@chalmers.se 
031-7725851

*** Chalmers declines to consider all offers of further announcement publishing or other types of support for the recruiting process in connection with this position. *** 
   


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