21.18, Jobs: English & Functional Approaches: Professor, Ghent U

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Subject: 21.18, Jobs: English & Functional Approaches: Professor, Ghent U

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Date: 30-Dec-2009
From: Stef Slembrouck < stef.slembrouck at ugent.be >
Subject: English & Functional Approaches: Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
 

	
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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:46:05
From: Stef Slembrouck [stef.slembrouck at ugent.be]
Subject: English & Functional Approaches: Professor, Ghent University, Belgium

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University or Organization: Ghent University 
Department: English Department
Job Location: Ghent, Belgium 
Web Address: http://www.english.ugent.be/

Job Rank: Professor  

Specialty Areas: Functional Approaches

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The faculty of Arts and Philosophy at Ghent University has a vacancy for a
professorship, starting October 1, 2010. It concerns a full-time position
of Professor at the rank of Lecturer ('docent', tenure track) in the
English Department. Job description: teaching, scientific research and
other academic/scientific duties in the field of English Linguistics:
Functional Approaches.

- Deadline: 2010-Feb-05 23:55 
- Department: LW11 - English Department
- Contract type: Statutory 
- Occupancy rate: 100%
- Vacancy type: Autonomous Academic Staff ("ZAP")

Profile:
- Candidates hold a PhD or a degree recognized as equivalent, with a
doctoral thesis in the field of English linguistics;
- Candidates are required to have at least two years of postdoctoral
experience on October 1, 2010;
- Candidates are required to have research experience in the field of
study, as testified by recent publications in national and international
peer reviewed journals and/or books;

Assets:
- active participation in national and international conferences;
- demonstrated experience of international mobility, amongst others through
participation in research programmes at research institutions not linked to
the university where the highest degree was obtained;
 Candidates are required to possess the necessary didactic, organizational
and communicative skills for teaching at an academic level. 

The language of administration at Ghent University is Dutch. However,
candidates who do not speak Dutch as a native language are encouraged to apply.

The candidates are requested to submit:
- the necessary attestations of competence (copies of degrees);
- an outline (of max. 1500 words) of their views on academic teaching,
research and service in relation to the vacant position.

Selection procedure:
1. Candidates will be short-listed on the basis of their curriculum vitae,
bibliography and the outline;
2. Short-listed applicants will be invited for an interview, on the basis
of which the final selection will be made.

This full-time position is a tenure-track appointment for a period of five
years, at the end of which, following an evaluation, a tenure decision will
be taken (appointment as Professor in the rank of Senior Lecturer,
'hoofddocent').

Applications must be sent in duplicate by registered mail to the Rector of
Ghent University, using the application form for Autonomous Academic Staff
('ZAP'). The application form can be requested by phone (+32(0)9-2643129 or
+32(0)9-2643130) or downloaded 
(http://www.ugent.be/nl/werken/aanwerving/formulieren/zap).


Application Deadline: 05-Feb-2010 
Mailing Address for Applications:
	The Rector of the University 
	Rectoraat 
	Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 21 
	Ghent 9000 
	Belgium  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.ugent.be/nl/werken/aanwerving/formulieren/zap 
Contact Information:
	Prof Stef Slembrouck 
	Email: stef.slembrouck at ugent.be 
	Phone: 32-9-264-3794 
	Fax: 32-9-264-4179 



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