Open positions:
Professorship
The University of Helsinki is among the leading research universities in the world and the most versatile institution of scholarship, education and intellectual stimulation in Finland.In addition to its 11 faculties, the University has independent institutes, some of which are jointly operated with other universities. The University has 35,000 degree students and 60,000 participants in adult education every year. Its 8,000 employees include teachers, researchers and other experts in various fields. The academic community works on four campuses in Helsinki as well as in 18 other locations around Finland. The University’s current annual budget is EUR 600 million, but under the new Universities Act, the University of Helsinki and its affiliates will form a corporation that will employ a total of 10,000 persons and have an annual budget of nearly EUR 1 billion.
The Department of Social Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Helsinki invites applications for a
Professorship in the Social Psychology of Information and Communication Technologies for the period of five years.
In addition to conducting research, the duties of the professorship will include supervising doctoral dissertations and Master’s theses, examining theses and providing postgraduate and Master’s-level instruction in the social psychology of information and communication technologies. The duties will include the teaching and development of research methods for mediated interaction. The appointee will also participate in the activities of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) as a senior researcher.
When making the appointment, the primary criteria are the applicant’s qualifications in scientific research and in academic research-based teaching. The appointee’s research profile should reinforce one or several key areas of research already represented at the Department of Social Psychology (http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/sospsyk/english/tutkimus.htm). The research programmes Network Society and Algorithmic Data Analysis play a central role in the research activities of HIIT (http://www.hiit.fi).
The Decree on the Qualification Requirements and Duties of Staff in Institutions of Higher Education (309/1993) provides for the qualification requirements and the Finnish and Swedish language requirement for professorships.
Detailed information on the professorship and on the application and appointment processes can be found in the document entitled Instructions for Appointments, which can be obtained free of charge from the Faculty Office or website or from the University Registry.
The salary for the present post will be based on levels 8-10 of the demands level chart for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee will be paid a salary component based on personal performance. The new Universities Act will enter into force on 1 January 2010. Consequently, permanent and fixed-term public service employment relationships at universities will be abolished on 31 December 2009 and all personnel will be employed on a contractual basis as of 1 January 2010.
The Instructions for Appointments contain a list of the required enclosures to accompany the application as well as instructions for submitting the application itself. The application documents must be submitted in English. Applications addressed to the Faculty of Social Sciences must be delivered to the following address: Registry of the University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 33 (Yliopistonkatu 4), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 14 October 2009 at 15.45 local Helsinki time.
Further information can be obtained from Professor Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman, tel. +358 (0)9 191 24876, email: anna-maija.pirttila-backman@helsinki.fi.
Helsinki, 14 September 2009
University of Helsinki Administration Office