Recruitment process for teaching positions

To ensure your application is complete, it is important that you follow all the steps in the recruitment system Varbi.

To be eligible for a teaching appointment, an applicant must have a documented ability to teach in either Swedish or English or in both these languages. All qualifications that you refer to in your application must be documented in a manner that makes it possible to assess both their quality and their scope.

All applications should entail the following documents and relevant certificates and/or other documents to confirm your qualifications:

• Application letter including list of attachments
• Curriculum Vitae
• Presentation of research qualifications
• List of publications
• Presentation pf educational qualifications
• Presentation of other qualifications
• Scholarly and any teaching and learning publications cited

Applications for promotion from senior lecturer to professor and promotion to senior lecturer need to have all documents mentioned above and a presentation of collegial responsibility attached.

For more information regarding the application process and what the documents attached in the application should entail, go to the Faulty of Social Sciences Guidelines supplementing the University’s Appointment Regulations. If you want to learn more about the university’s recruitment process, please go to Appointment Regulations for Uppsala University.

After the deadline for applications, all applications are assessed by at least two external experts (referees) from other higher education institutions.

All applicants will receive information via email when the referees have been appointed and who they are.

The referees assess the expertise of the applicants. The assessment of expertise and qualifications is based on the person specification for position, which in turn is based on Uppsala University’s Appointment Regulations, the Faculty of Social Sciences Guidelines supplementing the University’s Appointment Regulations and the qualification requirements stated in the Higher Education Ordinance.

This part of the recruitment process is time-consuming and usually take several months.

After the external experts assessment, the Recruitment Committee assesses, after consulting with the referees and the Head of Department, whether more methods of selection are required. The Recruitment Committee calls the shortlisted candidates for interviews and/or trial lectures. In most cases references are also solicited. The Recruitment Committee then makes a qualitative overall assessment and proposes a candidates for the position.

The duration of the selection period may vary, and can sometimes take a few months.

All applicants will receive information via email when the Recruitment Committee has made their decision on who to propose for the appointment. The referee statements are sent to all applicants together with the minutes from the Recruitment committee.

All applicants are also informed via email when a decision on employment has been made.

If you are the proposed candidate, you receive an offer of employment from the Head of Department/Dean. You discuss the salary and other terms of employment, such as the starting date and introduction, with the Head of Department/the Dean.

As Uppsala University is a public authority, an employment decision can be appealed.

How an appeal is made

Whoever is affected by the employment decision and requests that it be changed, shall make a written appeal. Whoever is making a written appeal shall state which decision is being appealed and what change is requested.

The petition shall be signed, with a signature clarification, and shall contain the postal address of the person making the appeal and that person's telephone number during business hours.

The appeal shall be submitted to the Board of Appeals for Higher Education, but should be sent to: the registry clerk at Uppsala university, Box 256, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden. The appeal must have been received by the University at the latest three weeks from the mentioned date of notice otherwise the appeal cannot be heard.

The appeal shall be sent from the University to the Board of Appeals together with copies of the appealed decision and those documents which have been used in making a decision in the matter, with the exception of possible research or pedagogical publications. In addition, a written opinion from the person who has received the position will be appended, and opinions from the body making the proposal (in the appropriate cases) and from the Vice-Chancellor.

The Faculty of Social Sciences has two recruitment committees. Each recruitment committee consist of four teachers, one doctoral student and one undergraduate student.

The head of the recruiting department decides on the appointment of associate senior lecturers and senior lecturers. The Vice-Chancellor decides on the appointment of professors.

The academic career path at Uppsala University consists of the steps associate senior lecturer (assistant professor), senior lecturer (associate professor) and professor.

Alongside the opportunity of obtaining a new appointment without previously holding a teaching position at Uppsala University, the academic career path offers teachers a possibility of promotion.