Recruitment Committee

The Faculty of Science and Technology has a single Recruitment Committee for the whole faculty.

Duties

The University’s Appointment Regulations (UFV 2010/1842) direct disciplinary domain boards to establish one or more recruitment groups to deal with matters concerning professorial appointments and teaching appointments for which a doctoral degree is required. The disciplinary domain has established a Recruitment Committee tasked with managing:

matters concerning professorial appointments and teaching appointments for which a doctoral degree is required;
applications for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor, promotion from lecturer to associate professor, and promotion to professor;
applications to be appointed as associate professor instead of lecturer and to be appointed as professor instead of associate professor.

The chair of the committee is co-opted to the Disciplinary Domain Board for matters concerning teaching appointments or promotions. Delegations in appointment and promotion matters are specified in appendix 1.

Composition

The Recruitment Committee has the following composition:

Chair
First deputy chair (with special responsibility for equal treatment issues)
Second deputy chair (with special responsibility for the assessment of teaching expertise)
Group alternate member
Two student representatives
Subject representative 1 (rapporteur)
Subject representative 2

The committee has a presidium consisting of chair, first deputy chair (with special responsibility for ensuring equal treatment is upheld in matters considered) and second deputy chair (with special responsibility for the assessment of teaching expertise). The presidium is appointed by the Working Committee on the recommendation of the Electoral Assembly.

The Recruitment Committee includes two student representatives (one of whom is preferably a doctoral student), each with an alternate member. The Working Committee may appoint one or more group alternates to the presidium, with the right to attend and speak at meetings.

There must be at least one man and one woman among the members of the presidium. The second deputy chair should be a distinguished university teacher, a specialist in subject teaching or an educationally skilful teacher. The first deputy chair is a member of the Equal Opportunities Committee.

Two subject representatives (one of whom is rapporteur) are appointed by the Working Committee as members for each individual matter, on the recommendation of the relevant section dean. At least one of the subject representatives must be a man and at least one must be a woman, unless there are special reasons for some other arrangement. The section dean must state these special reasons in writing in the decision-making material submitted to the Faculty Board’s Working Committee.

The term of office for the chair is three years starting on 1 January 2021. The term of office for the first and second deputy chairs is three years starting on 1 January 2020. The alternate member(s) of the presidium is/are appointed for one year at a time.

Members

Anders Arweström Jansson, chair
Ingemar Kaj, first deputy chair (with special responsibility for equal treatment issues)
Marika Edoff, second deputy chair (with special responsibility for the assessment of teaching expertise)
Neele Schmidt (doctoral student representative)
Vacant (doctoral student representative, alternate member)
Max Johansson Saarijärvi (student representative)
Vacant (student representative, alternate members

The chair has been appointed for the period 1 July 2020–31 December 2023, the deputy chairs and group alternate member(s) have been appointed for the period 1 January 2023–31 December 2025, and the students and doctoral students for the 2022–2023 academic year.

Contact

Faculty Officer rekrytering@teknat.uu.se