Lecturer in Global Health - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

The Department of Women's and Children's Health conducts research, postgraduate education and training in gynecology, obstetrics, perinatal medicine, paediatrics, international health, women's medicine and clinical psychology in health care. Global Health and Migration is a profile area for the department. The activity is integrated with the Women and Children division at University Hospital and National Centre for women's safety. Research is conducted within thirteen research groups. More information is available on the website http://kbh.uu.se/?languageId=1.

International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH) is a leading research and education centre at Uppsala University that works for improved global health with special emphasis on women's and children's health and nutrition. The education and research programmes address the health challenges in low- and middle- income countries and in humanitarian crises. By developing and evaluating interventions and new strategies for tackling priority health problems, IMCH makes important contributions towards equitable global health.

Description of Subject Area:

Global Health is the health as well as health problems and diseases of populations in a global context and transcends the perspectives and concerns of individual nations, or has global political and economic importance. It deals with needs of global improvement of health, reduction of gaps in health conditions, and protection against global threats against health with special emphasis on vulnerable groups.

The subject area Global Health is very dynamic and today, the subject area even include sustainability, implementation, health systems, migration, non-infectious diseases and nutrition. The international literature often emphasize the rights- and equality perspective, that is equal access health care as a human right, health and sickness in relation to development as well as covariance between health and socioeconomic/sociocultural factors.

Duties:

The position includes teaching with a focus on qualitative research methods. Teaching duties include being responsible for entire courses and course administration, lectures, seminars and other pedagogical methods like case methodology, "flipped class rooms" or e-based learning, supervision of students’ individual projects and examinations.

The holder shall also keep abreast of developments within the subject area of Global Health and the developments in wider community that are significant for the work at the university. In addition, it is expected that the holder develops networks with other actors within the field, develop and teaching methods. The work also entails research within the area of Global Health (up to 10%) and competence development. 

Eligibility requirements:

According to the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance those qualified for appointment as lecturer must have a higher education degree and have demonstrated teaching expertise. A prerequisite for having demonstrated teaching expertise is that applicants must have completed teacher training for higher education of relevance to operations at the University, comprising ten weeks, or have acquired the equivalent knowledge. A general eligibility requirement is that the applicant must possess the personal capabilities necessary to carry out fully the duties of the appointment.

Assessment criteria:

Teaching expertise must have been demonstrated by educational and teaching qualifications in accordance with § 23 in the Appointment Regulations for Uppsala University.

Experience in teaching qualitative research methods in a global health context at advanced level is a requirement. The applicant should have documented experience in teaching in English. Desirable in general is experience of multidisciplinary research and collaboration with other institutions and universities in education and research, as well as documented supervision skills. To promote interdisciplinarity we favour applicants with a background in the field of humanities.

Guidelines and assessment criteria

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Appointment Regulations for Uppsala University

Uppsala University strives to be an inclusive workplace that promotes equal opportunities and attracts qualified candidates who can contribute to the University’s excellence and diversity. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people of all backgrounds.

Salary: Individually negotiated salary.

Starting date: 1 February 2019 or as otherwise agreed.

Type of position: Temporary part-time position (70%) ending 30 September 2019 with a possibility of extension.

For further information about the position please contact Program Coordinator Professor Mats Målqvist, email mats.malqvist@kbh.uu.se,  tel 0702-673545.

Please submit your application by 29 november 2018, UFV-PA 2018/3935.

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In the event of any disagreement between the English and the Swedish versions of this announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.