Senior lecturer in Peace and Conflict Research, Specialisation in Nuclear Disarmament

The position as a university lecturer in peace and conflict research with a specialisation in nuclear disarmament will be at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. The primary duties will be at the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC), but the duties may also include research, teaching, and administration at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. AMC is an interdisciplinary centre established in 2021 and is organizationally placed within the Faculty of Social Sciences/Department of Peace and Conflict Research. AMC conducts research, teaching, and public outreach on the topic of nuclear disarmament in a broad sense, including arms control and non-proliferation. For more information, please visit https://www3.uu.se/alvamyrdalcentre. The field of peace and conflict research at Uppsala University involves the study of the origins, dynamics, and resolution of violent conflicts. Education and research at the department are problem-driven, with a focus on explaining empirical phenomena and their patterns by integrating theory, methods, and empirical research. For more information, please visit www.pcr.uu.se.

Description of the subject area of the employment
The subject area is nuclear disarmament in a broad sense, including arms control and non-proliferation.

Duties
The position involves teaching, assessment, research and administration. Teaching includes responsibility for courses, course administration and supervision of students. The duties of the position also include actively seeking external research funding and keeping abreast of developments within your own subject area and developments in the wider community that are relevant for your teaching role at the University. Senior lecturers are expected to contribute to the research and teaching environment, periodically take on more extensive administrative responsibilities, and collaborate with the surrounding society for mutual exchange. A vital part of the role involves interacting with the surrounding society to ensure that the knowledge and expertise at the centre benefit society. The position also includes conducting research on nuclear disarmament in a broad sense within the framework of AMC. The research should fully or partially use the new data sets on disarmament agreements and negotiations developed by AMC. Additionally, the position involves contributing to the development of these data sets. The ambition is to allocate at least half of the working time to research at AMC.

Required qualifications
To qualify for appointment as a senior lecturer, you must have been awarded a PhD or have equivalent research competence, have demonstrated teaching expertise, be able to work with other people and otherwise meet the suitability requirements needed to perform your duties well.

Your teaching expertise, research expertise and professional skill must be relevant to the subject matter and the duties that the position involves. For this position, documented experience in developing and analysing one or more social science datasets with a large number of observations is required.

For now, all teaching and most seminars and meetings are held in English. To meet the qualification requirements, documented ability to write and teach in English is a requirement. Since Uppsala University is a state agency with Swedish as the main language, administrative meetings and documents are often in Swedish and cannot always be translated. It is therefore desirable that an employee learns Swedish as soon as possible in order to fully contribute to the collegiate activities at Uppsala University.

Assessment criteria: research and teaching expertise
When selecting among qualified applicants, equal weight will be given to research and teaching expertise. 

Applicants must have demonstrated research expertise by independent, high-quality research contributions. The applicant’s contributions to the international and national scholarly community will be assessed on the basis of the quality and scope of scholarly publications, among other criteria. The nature and specific circumstances of the subject will be taken into account when assessing the required international track record.

When assessing research expertise, research quality will be the principal consideration. The scope of the research, meaning primarily its depth and breadth, will also be taken into account. Furthermore, consideration will be given to the ability to plan, initiate, lead and develop research and third cycle (doctoral) education, the ability to obtain research funding in competition, and the ability to collaborate and engage with the wider community through research. In assessing research expertise, particular weight will be given to publications in highly ranked academic journals and with leading academic publishers, demonstrating experience in developing and analysing one or more social science datasets with a large number of observations.

Teaching expertise will be evaluated as carefully as research expertise. Teaching expertise must be well documented to make it possible to assess quality. When assessing teaching expertise, the quality of teaching will be the principal consideration. The scope of teaching experience, in terms of both breadth and depth, will also be taken into account, as will the ability to plan, initiate, lead and develop education, and the ability to base teaching on research. Teaching expertise should also include the ability to collaborate and engage with the wider community through education. In assessing teaching expertise, particular weight will be given to the ability to collaborate and engage with the wider community.

Application process: Please submit your complete application via Uppsala University’s recruitment system, including:

• Letter of application
• List of attachments
• Curriculum vitae
• Presentation of research qualifications
• List of publications
• Presentation of educational qualifications
• Presentation of other qualifications
• A clear account of the scope of your teaching experience, expressed in number of hours
• Scholarly (maximum 10) and (if any) educational publications cited
• List of reference persons (name, contact details, previous working relationship)

Instructions for drawing up the application
are available in Faculty of Social Sciences Supplementary Guidelines (section 7a).

Please note: Your application, including attachments, must be submitted electronically in the recruitment system Varbi. Any publications cited that are not available in electronic format should be sent in triplicate to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala. Mark the package with the reference UFV-PA 2024/2323.

For further information, see Uppsala University’s Appointment Regulations and section 2d in Faculty of Social Sciences Supplementary Guidelines.

About the position: This is a permanent, full-time position. The salary will be set individually.
Starting date: January 2025, or by agreement. Place of work: Uppsala.

Further information about the position is available from: Professor Erik Melander, Director of the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, phone +46 70 425 04 62, e-mail erik.melander@pcr.uu.se, and Professor Ashok Swain, Head of Department of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, phone +46 18 – 471 76 53, e-mail ashok.swain@pcr.uu.se.

Questions about the recruitment procedure can be directed to: e-mail samfak@samfak.uu.se

We look forward to receiving your application by 23 August, UFV-PA 2024/2323.