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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 11:16:30 +0200<br />From: Dave Sayers <<a href="mailto:dave.sayers@CANTAB.NET">dave.sayers@CANTAB.NET</a>><br />Subject: Be my colleague! Associate Prof (Tenure Track), English, University of Jyväskylä<br /><br />My employer is recruiting!<br /><a href="https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/associate-professor-tenure-track-english/Zx35XY?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/associate-professor-tenure-track-english/Zx35XY?lang=en</a><br /><br />I can *genuinely* recommend working here! I mean we have our grumbles, but compared <br />to other places I've worked, phew! Finland is great too, and Jyväskylä is a lovely <br />place to live and work.<br /><br />Interestingly the job ad doesn't seem to mention the usual requirement to acquire <br />some level of Finnish proficiency within a certain period. Pretty sure that would be <br />a thing, although to an extent it's more about the effort than the actual result! In <br />any case, certainly worth expressing a willingness to try.<br /><br />Aside from that it's all the usual TT job application stuff. They unsurprisingly <br />stipulate that getting external funding is among the "main duties", and last time we <br />had a TT post it went to someone with a big ongoing multi-year funded project. I <br />don't say that to discourage! Just to clarify the requirements for this level.<br /><br />Here's the (not very easy to find) page explaining the dept's 'five focus areas' <br />mentioned in the ad: <a href="https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/kivi/research-at-kivi" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/kivi/research-at-kivi</a>. Your 'fit' <br />with those will certainly be a factor, not least because JYU -- like other Finnish <br />universities -- is strongly encouraged to build coherent research profiles: <br /><a href="https://www.aka.fi/en/research-funding/programmes-and-other-funding-schemes/university-profiling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.aka.fi/en/research-funding/programmes-and-other-funding-schemes/university-profiling/</a>. <br />This has its good points and bad points, but anyway, a very important thing to consider.<br /><br />For talking about research funding generally, it's important to know the priorities <br />of the Research Council of Finland (until last year known as the Academy of Finland); <br />also common European funding sources, especially Horizon.<br /><br />To help with your 'teaching portfolio', here are the pages for our two main degree <br />programmes: <a href="https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2023/en/degreeprogram/mokka2020sisu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2023/en/degreeprogram/mokka2020sisu/</a>, <br /><a href="https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2023/en/education/kopkandimaisterikou/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2023/en/education/kopkandimaisterikou/</a> (for those in the UK <br />& Ireland, Finland 'course' = UK/IE 'module'). We do a good amount of team-teaching, <br />and often take on each other's courses in different years. It's a healthy way to <br />blend expertise, and safeguard courses in case of research leave etc. With all that <br />in mind it's certainly worth clearly listing of all the courses on those pages which <br />you could teach, and/or adapt to teaching. Obviously, bonus points for bringing new <br />courses that complement the existing curriculum. :)<br /><br />I'm afraid the online application form has some slightly esoteric things for anyone <br />outside Finland so I'll explain those:<br />- 'Referees' doesn't specifically ask for your chair, head of dept or line manager, <br />because in theory this could be anyone really, whoever could vouch for your <br />experience and expertise. Back when I applied for my job here, I was working in the <br />UK, and I gave the details of the head of department at a previous university I'd <br />worked at (in Finland), plus a current senior colleague, but not my line manager. <br />That was useful because frankly my line manager at the time didn't really know much <br />about my teaching or research beyond the standard internal paperwork about it.<br />- It might seem weird to be asked to upload a picture. It's just a customary Finnish <br />thing, and yes there is a live debate across Finland about how this custom has <br />consequences (gasp!) for issues like racialised hiring practices. It doesn't look <br />like it's mandatory though, and the university itself is accredited for equality in <br />hiring: <br /><a href="https://www.jyu.fi/en/research/developing-researcher-career-with-hrs4r-hr-excellence-in-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.jyu.fi/en/research/developing-researcher-career-with-hrs4r-hr-excellence-in-research</a><br />- The 'Gender' question is disappointingly constrained, I'm sorry to say. I'll ask <br />about that.<br />- I don't know why it asks 'Which job (mentioned in the application notice) are you <br />applying for?'; it's only Associate Prof so just pick that.<br />- Under 'The date, place and grade of your latest trial lecture', if this doesn't <br />exist where you are (I'd never heard about it before coming to Finland), it seems as <br />though it doesn't have to be formatted as a date, so you could explain that it <br />doesn't exist where you are but you'd be happy to deliver one if needed.<br />- Under 'Pedagogical studies (number of study points or study weeks) / Pedagogiset <br />opinnot (OP)', if your pedagogical training is from outside Finland, I would suggest <br />reading a little on Finnish pedagogical studies, <br /><a href="https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2023/en/module/yppper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://studyguide.jyu.fi/2023/en/module/yppper/</a>, then basically just comparing this <br />to your own training level, giving a number based on that comparison, and then <br />explaining that number in your 'Teaching portfolio' document.<br />- 'Evidence of societal interaction' always makes me laugh. I kinda want to list all <br />the conversations I've had with other humans. But basically it means 'impact', how <br />you've pursued social outcomes or done non-academic things either directly connected <br />to your research or more broadly.<br />- A 'docentship' is a Finnish post-PhD qualification demonstrating a certain level of <br />experience. Similarly you could just say it doesn't exist where you are but you have <br />whatever other post-PhD recognition of experience (when I did this I think I <br />mentioned my Higher Education Academy accreditation in the UK).<br /><br />Good luck to all those who apply!<br /><br />All the best,<br />Dave<br /><br />__________________<br />Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132<br />Senior Lecturer & Docent, Dept Language & Communication Studies, U. 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