How to write a ” winning ” senior lecturer application

1. How to write a ”winning”senior lecturerapplication Anna Strömberg, docent, lektor Avd för omvårdnad, IMV Anställningsnämnden, HU

3. http://www.hu.liu.se/org/anstallningsnamnd

4. Qualifications - Competence • PhD or equal competence • University pedagogical education or equal competence • LUK -Lärande, undervisning och kunskap • DUO -Design, utvärdering och organisation för lärande • Pedagogical skills

5. Criteria for judgement • Scientific skills: • Independent research • Research planning, administration and leadership • Achievinggoals in research through collaboration with otherresearchers • Ability to inform the public about research ”tredje uppgiften”

6. Criteria for judgement • Pedagogical skills through: • Broad and deep knowledge within the area of the appointment • Ability to spread an active interest and engagement for the subject • Ability to structure and organise a mass of knowledge into courses • Ability to activate students to independent learning • Ability to communicate with students and other teachers • Ability to renewal

7. Criteria for judgement • Administrative skills shown through experience of developing and leading activities and staff

8. CV 1-2 pages • Personal- and contact information • Education and exams • Other background information • Previous and ongoing employment • Parental leaveThink about including references, certificates of education, exams and employment

9. Attested copies • Do not forget that copies need to be attested

10. Scientific production • Publications • Original articles • Review articles, book-chapters • Guidelines • Editorials, invited papers • others • Docent competency • Active participation in scientific congresses: • Abstracts • invited speaker, keynote speaker, (chairperson) • member of scientific committees • 10 most important papers for the experts to evaluate

11. Scientific collaboration • Collaboration preclinical and clinical research • Local - within and between faculties at the university • National - with other universities or partners • International • Guest researchers, post docs (name, affiliation, time)

12. External Grants • Open national or international competition with a high scientific quality peer review • Recommended grants for several years • Grants from different sources • All received grants should be documented with principal investigator (PI), amount and time

13. Research supervision and education • Ongoing supervision of PhD students (and licentiate students) • Graduated PhD students (and licentiate students) • (master students) • Main or co-supervisor • Post doc • Lecturer, tutor, course leader and examiner of research courses

14. Evaluations • Editor, member of editorial board • Expert committees at other universities, national or international or for grants • Opponent, dissertation committees (betygsnämnd)

15. Evaluation of scientific production • Write a short research programme and comment different aspects of your own research • Role • Independence • Productivity • Quantity • Quality • ”impact factor” • Citations • Clinical impact • Scientific impact

16. Content of Application • Academical, pedagogical and administrative portfolio with well documented activities in all areas • Letter of intent • Very important to clearly express what you want to do in this position in research, teaching and administration

17. Letter of intent • Experience of research • Research philosophy and ethics • Principal line and parallel tracks in research • Planned/ongoing research program • Visions and future plans • Research • Teaching • Administration

18. Procedure of the application The application should be labelled with a registration number and sent in time to: Linköpings universitet Registrator 581 83 Linköping

19. Poor quality • Unclear and messy format • Poor layout • different format ”cut and paste” • lack of headlines • Mixture of Swedish and English language • Content unclear or inexact • Missing years in employment • Wrong names on co-authors or journals • Content and layout are not following the given format • To detailed and long • Not important or irrelevant information included • E.g. mixture of peer-review and populistic journalsNot spending enough time to make a relevant CV or trying to impress with non-impressive merits

20. Good quality • Follow given format and content • 1 page = 1 page, 10 publications = 10 publications • Clear, but personal disposition • Attractive layout • Headlines • As short as possible • No repetition • Clarify and simplify with figures and tables if possible • ”less is more” Courage to put forward and document strengths in a relevant way !

21. To think about… • Setting up an academic portfolio • Summarize the merits you have • Decide on the best format and content • Look at the CV of others, ask mentors, discuss with colleagues • Have different version: complete, short, Swedish, English, for specific applications • To maintain a high quality CV takes time, less time if it is done on a “daily” basis • Application time • What merits is asked for? • What is the best way to report these merits? • Do not write your CV in the last minute • My future goals (research, grants, positions) • What merits do I need and how do I get them?

22. Do not forget important things, but do not include everything…

23. Procedure • Complete applications that have been sent to registrator on time are sent out to experts (sakkunniga) • Assessment of experts (sakkunniga) • Telephone conference or meeting with the experts and ”anställningsnämnden” • Most highly ranked applicants (sometimes all applicants) are called for an interview • Interviews (experts and ”anställningsnämnden” present) • Experts independently rank the applicants in a written statement • The appointment to the post is advised by ”anställnings-nämnden”, but the decision is made by the rektor

24. An application is like the top • of the iceberg • Much of the personality and skills are under the surface • Prepare well! • What will be asked? • What is your message? • Bring up other things/extend/clarify • Be positive and honest! Interview

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26. Promotion • The employment as a senior lecturer ”lektor” can be seen as a career employment with the possibility of promotion to professor when the applicant has the qualification asked for • Promotion is a possibility, but not a right!

27. Do not start too late… … the end will be stressful Read the instructions carefully! Ask some colleagues to read and give feed-back!