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Are you a committed geographer, with the depth and drive to invest in questions about equalities and injustices in geographies of global sustainability? And do you connect the social to the environment, by building on experience and affinity with interdisciplinary approaches, and engagement with communities and stakeholders worldwide? Then you have a part to play as a Full Professor of Human Geography.
As Full Professor of Human Geography, you will develop an agenda that connects to the work on transformative change towards sustainability, and sustainable and just transitions in the built environment and mobility, for instance from perspectives of post-human city and rural ecologies. As part of the Human Geography group, you will contribute to further development of the critical and relational perspectives. You will be combining geographical expertise with other disciplines, most notably environmental studies, urban planning, economics, sociology, and political science. Your socially and scientifically relevant research should lead to publications in academic and professional outlets, the attraction of external research funds, and also to visible and concrete societal impact in public discourse and media. You will find a detailed job profile (including requirements) below.
As a Full Professor you will play a prominent and exemplary role in advancing education in human geography and, more broadly, socio-spatial sciences. With the use of advanced educational approaches and methods in the field and a broader social theoretical and didactical backdrop, you will be able to develop attractive and high-quality education (at both the Bachelor's and Master's level). You will contribute to the development of joint programmes with partners within and outside the Geography, Planning and Environment (GPM) department, and within and outside the Nijmegen School of Management (NSM), looking for opportunities to further develop multidisciplinary curricula on spatial development and sustainability.
You will initiate and supervise research in geography, resulting in, for example, the publication of academic articles in established international journals. Leading and linking research themes with other research groups within the faculty or Institute for Management Research (IMR), and, more particularly, contributing to multidisciplinary research programmes. You will be expected to realise funding opportunities, write grant proposals and generate the funding needed, partly to finance PhD positions. You will be actively involved in the supervision of PhD candidates.
You will contribute to supervising associate and assistant professors and researchers in their work, and advancing their career. Second, you will contribute to the management of teaching, research and impact in the GPM department, fulfilling managerial duties at the departmental and NSM level. You will have a part to play in the continual improvement, internationalisation and positioning of the faculty in terms of its educational and research programmes. Furthermore, you will represent the group and the field of study in inter-university consultations and in national and international networks in education and research.
Fixed-term contract: It concerns an indefinite contract with an appointment as full professor initially for five years.
The Human Geography group is focusing on research and teaching in Urban and Cultural Geography; Border Studies; Political Geography and Geopolitics; Conflict Studies; Globalisation, Migration and Development; Economic Geography; and the Cultural Geography of Tourism. We feel committed to a critical but constructive approach and want to make a difference in respect to current societal problems. At the same time, we are academically ambitious and inspired by the topical international academic debates and by the newest developments in social theories, which we experience as highly relevant to our research and teaching. We closely collaborate with other disciplines within our university (e.g. the scholars of conflict studies in the Department of Politics within NSM, the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences) and with other universities in the Netherlands (e.g. the Cultural Geography Group of Wageningen University and Research) and abroad such as the University of Zurich, the University of Neuchatel, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, the Open University in Milton Keynes, the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Universitat Pompeu in Barcelona, the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), the Mahanirban Research Group (Calcutta, India), etc. The Department of GPM employs about 50 FTE staff and has three Chair groups.
The department has the primary responsibility for the Bachelor's programme in Geography, Planning and Environment, in which 90-100 students enrol from pre-university education each year. In addition, there are around 60 students who enter through the pre-master programmes each year. Finally, the department offers three Master's programmes: in Human Geography, in Spatial Planning, and in Environment and Society Studies. In recent years, these Master's programmes attracted between 60 and 100 students each.
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