Job Faculty of Arts - Lecturer positions Communication and Information Sciences (3,0 fte)

The new lecturers teach within the Communication and Information Sciences programme (60%) and do research within the Discourse & Communication group (40%). Supervision of students and course development are also important tasks. Administrative and management tasks may be part of the function.

Our new colleagues have research and teaching expertise in one (or several) of the following areas: document design, applied conversation analysis, media and computer communication. Apart from excellent communicative and didactic qualifications, we are looking for candidates who:
- have a PhD in a research area that contributes to the discourse-theoretical approach of communication processes
- have experience with teaching and research in one of the following areas: document design, applied conversation analysis, media and computer communication
- are able to develop courses and teaching formats that give shape to the profile of the CIW programme
- are professionally involved and engaged, documented by publications and other research activities
- have an excellent command of Dutch and English, or are prepared to learn Dutch within reasonable time.

The University of Groningen offers a salary dependent on qualifications and work experience with a minimum of € 3,195 (salary scale 11) till a maximum of € 4,970 (salary scale 12) per month for a full-time position. Two full-time appointments will be for a period of two years. One full-time appointment will be for a period of two years, with the prospect of appointment for an indefinite period (tenure track), based on an appraisal in the second year.

Date of entry into employment commences: 1 August 2010.

A short lecture may be part of the selection procedure.

The University of Groningen was founded in 1614 and has a very good reputation. It has an international orientation and it houses a wide variety of disciplines. It is rooted in the North of the Netherlands. Our researchers and lecturers are inspired academics, our students are high level. We respect the differences in talent, ambitions and performance of the 25.000 students and members of staff. The university provides a career advisory service for partners of new staff who move to Groningen.
The university is an equal opportunities employer. Because women are still underrepresented in a number of fields, they are particularly encouraged to apply.

The Faculty of Arts is a large dynamic faculty in the heart of the city of Groningen. Over 5000 students and 700 members of staff are working at the frontiers of knowledge every day. With 19 Bachelor's degree programmes and more than 35 Master's degree programmes, the faculty focuses on the study of the languages, cultures and history of Europe, the Mediterranean area and the North American continent. Special attention is paid to the language, culture and history of the Netherlands and particularly the Northern Netherlands region. The faculty organizes a large number of interdisciplinary programmes. Research at the Faculty of Arts is highly regarded in the various academic fields. The faculty has one local research school, the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities. In addition, there are three research institutes within the Faculty of Arts.

The Communication and Information Sciences programme (CIW) is an interdisciplinary programme in the Faculty of Arts. CIW is one of the larger programmes in the Faculty of Arts. Every year around 120 students enter the Bachelor programme and around 60 the Master programme. The programme has an outspoken discourse-analytic orientation and covers the following areas: Organizational communication, Media communication and Computer communication. The core staff is assigned to the chair for Communication Studies. Faculty from other departments -- especially Speech Communication and Discourse Analysis and Information sciences / Humanities computing -- also teach in the programme. We collaborate with departments that offer minors in the programme (Foreign languages, Information sciences, Journalism, Linguistics). The research group Discourse & Communication is part of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG).

The department of Communication and Information Sciences offers Lecturer positions Communication and Information Sciences.

Prof. C.M. de Glopper
c.m.de.glopper@rug.nl
Drs. J. Oosterheert, Coordinator of Studies
+31 50 3635931,
j.oosterheert@rug.nl