Reg. No V 2014/885

RULES FOR THE ADMISSION OF HONORARY ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS AT THE FACULTY OF FINE, APPLIED AND PERFORMING ARTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG

Decision-maker: Faculty Board

Administrative Officer: Camilla Ljung

Date of decision: 10-12-2014

Period of validity: Until further notice Invalidates earlier decision V 2011/270

Summary: These regulations constitute the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts’ rules for the admission of Associate Professors

Rules for the Admission of Honorary Associate Professors at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, as well as Application Instructions

General The Swedish term docent is an abbreviation of the earlier title: magister docens, from the Latin word: doceo – to teach, instruct, educate. A Docent/Associate Professor is a learned scholar with a documented scholarly/artistic and pedagogical outlook and approach – as well as the ability to acquire scholarly knowledge autonomously, and convey this knowledge to others.

In the Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 1993:100), there are no regulations regarding the admission of Honorary Associate Professors. It is therefore up to each higher education institution to decide on procedures for the admission of Associate Professors. The Faculty Board at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts regards an Associate Professorship as a very important and valuable part of the university organisation and has therefore decided that the opportunity should exist to admit teachers and researchers as Honorary Associate Professors.

One can apply to be qualified as an Associate Professor in the subjects at the Faculty within which doctoral studies are conducted. In order to be considered for an Associate Professorship, applicants must have a connection with the Faculty, and the appointment should be of benefit to research or to scholarly/artistic teaching at the University. Admission as an Honorary Associate Professor does not mean being employed at the University but signifies having a natural link to the Faculty. An Associate Professor is expected to be prepared to take on assignments such as: external examiner, member of an examining committee, research supervisor, lecturer in undergraduate or doctoral programmes, or other scholarly activity or activities of benefit to research and education at the University. Associate Professorships at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts are lifelong.

Translation of the Swedish term: docent (Associate Professor) There is no single clear-cut translation of the Swedish word docent; nevertheless, it is not common to use the English word docent, since this can be understood as meaning a curator at a museum, especially in the US. The translation Senior Lecturer is also used, but if Senior Lecturer is to be deemed as being the equivalent level of a docent depends on the status of the university and the internal specific requirements for the appointment. Britain uses the following titles for docent level: First Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Associate Professor. Associate Professor and Reader can also be used synonymously with Assistant Professor, i.e., the stage between an Associate Professor and a Professor. The closest equivalent to docent in the American higher education system is Associate Professor1. The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts uses the American translation Associate Professor.

Eligibility A person is qualified to be admitted as an Honorary Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts if he or she, within the subject/discipline of the honorary professorial position in question, fulfils established requirements, with regard to:

1) scholarly expertise and autonomous ability, 2) pedagogical expertise and autonomous ability,

1 Wikipedia (version 24 October 2014. 21.21)

3) artistic expertsie (in the case of applications in an artistic subject), 4) connection with a Department at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts

1. Scholarly expertise and autonomous ability It is an applicant’s scholarly expertise in its entirety that is evaluated. In addition to what is required for a doctoral degree, an applicant is also to submit an account of his or her scholarly expertise and autonomous ability in research – within the entirety of his or her production. Normally, research production that is in addition to a doctorate, is, in quantity, to be the equivalent of one more doctoral dissertation. Projects carried out before one’s dissertation may, in exceptional cases, be counted as part of one’s production in its entirety. The volume of one’s production is to be considered in respect of: research value, the number of authors, the author's role in the research accounted for, as well as the publishing tradition in the research field in question.

An applicant’s autonomous ability must be explicitly described in the application. Autonomous ability to formulate and solve scholarly issues, together with a necessary overall view of the subject field in order to be able to lead research work – as well as the ability to collaborate with the wider community – are the qualifications required for an Associate Professor.

Important qualifications comprise: an applicant’s own research funding (where the applicant is the authority responsible), as well as scholarly assignments. Supervision of projects, or final degree projects, at undergraduate level, as well as supervision related to licentiate theses, and supervision related to doctoral degrees, are considered additional, advantageous qualifications.

Scholarly expertise can, for example, be: • autonomous ability in research, which can for example be documented through a consistent line of research that an applicant has pursued in addition to his or her doctoral work. • ability to identify relevant researchable problems • ability to formulate ideas and research projects in a stringent way, • ability to plan and conduct research, • ability to present one’s own research results/outcomes in a convincing way, • knowledge of research in one’s own field, its theories, methods, important research specialisations and results/outcomes, • ability to critically reflect on one’s own research, and on the research of others.

Additional, advantageous qualifications related to research can, for example, be: • project funding received, or research positions, which have been applied for in competition with national or international applicants, • completion of one’s own post-doctoral research projects, • participation as a post-doctoral researcher in major research projects, • academic assignments as assessor/reviewer, evaluator, and external examiner at public defences.of doctoral dissertations, • presentations at international conferences, • publication, particularly international publication, of research results/outcomes, • the arranging of conferences, • editorship of relevant publications.

Qualifications required to be an Associate Professor cannot be based on projects that have not as yet been accepted for publication or the equivalent. If a manuscript or a work has been accepted, a signed certificate verifying this is to be attached to the application.

2. Pedagogical expertise and autonomous ability Applicants are to have a well-developed ability to reflect autonomously on questions related to teaching and learning, and subject-based teaching and learning.

Pedagogical expertise is required in order to be admitted as an Associate Professor, and this is to be acquired through: a) teaching within higher education, b) supervision at doctoral or master’s level, c) completion of University of Gothenburg courses in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (HPE 101, 102 och 103), or other qualifications that are assessed as being of equal value, in accordance with the following document (in translation): Assessment and Recognition of Qualifications in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Handläggningsordning för prövning och erkännande av högskolepedagogiska meriter” (G 8 2638/09), as well as d) completion of the following University of Gothenburg course: Supervision in Postgraduate Programmes (HPE 201), or other programmes for postgraduate/doctoral supervisors.

Qualifications are to be well-documented, and demonstrated, for example through:: • certification of pedagogical expertise from a Head of Department, or the equivalent, • certification of supervision, from postgraduate/doctoral students, • one’s own production of teaching material, • course leadership, • development of new courses, • a written reflection on one’s own teaching • course evaluations, • publication of one’s own teaching material, • supervision of final degree projects, licentiate theses, and doctoral dissertations that have been awarded pass marks, • certification of completed courses in: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and Supervision in Postgraduate Programmes.

3. Artistic expertise (in the case of an application in an artistic subject) An applicant’s artistic expertise is to be at a high professional level. Applicants are required to have their own artistic practice after having completed a doctorate.

Artistic expertise is, for example, documented through: • one’s own artistic productions and works, • authorship in subjects relevant to the arts, • commercial recordings, • documented recordings of concerts and performances, • photo documentation of works, productions and exhibitions, • programmes from concerts, catalogues from exhibitions, etc. • critical reviews, • engagements and assignments at arts institutions, festivals, biennials, etc.

4. Connection with the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts An applicant’s connection with the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts can be in the form of employment at the Faculty, but can also take another form, and is, together with how the applicant is of benefit to the Faculty, then assessed by the Head of the Department concerned. Applicants who are not employed at the Faculty are to submit an account of their connection with activities pursued at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, and of their plans for future activities within the Faculty, or in connection with the Faculty. A letter of recommendation from the Head of Department concerned is to be attached to the application, stating that the applicant may be assessed, and that this is also of benefit to the Department – based on a statement of reasons related to the organisation and its activities.

Other qualifications Additional, advantageous qualifications in order to receive an honorary professorial position can also be: • activities within the University’s outreach (third-stream) activities (e.g. activities related to popular science, and cooperation with institutions and organisations outside academia). • academic leadership/management assignments.

Transfer of Associate Professorhip An applicant who is already an Associate Professor in the same subject at another higher education institution can have their Associate Professorship transferred. A new assessment by an external expert is not normally carried out in such cases. An applicant is also required to terminate the Associate Professorship held at their previous higher education institution. When transferring to another subject, a new external expert assessment is required.

Application An application to be admitted as an Honorary Associate Professor is to be made to the Dean at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, and is to be submitted to the Faculty Office. The application may preferably be sent by email to: [email protected]. Other qualifications that cannot be sent electronically can be handed in to the Faculty Office. Enclosures to be attached to the application: • CV/list of qualifications including a list of publications (articles that are a part of a dissertation should be marked out in accordance with the publication tradition of the research field in question). • List of research projects. • A critically reflective account of one’s own research and its disciplinary context, including ideas and plans regarding one’s own future research. • In the event of co-authorship, the distribution of responsibility should be verified, as far as this is possible, by way of certificates/testimonials from supervisors or co-authors. • A reflective account of one’s own pedagogical activities within higher education as well as a list of teaching qualifications. • Documentation of one’s own research, as well as the pedagogical, and where relevant, the artistic activities an applicant wishes to refer to; however, a maximum of ten research projects may be attached to the application, including one’s doctoral dissertation, and where relevant, a maximum of five artistic productions, or documentations of these. • Certificates certifying completed courses in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education as well as courses in Supervision in Postgraduate Programmes, or alternatively, equivalent knowledge

acquired, or decisions verifying validation. • Written recommendation from the Head of Department concerned that the applicant may be assessed, and that this is also of benefit to the Department – based on a statement of reasons related to the organisation and its activities.

For applicants who are not employed at the Faculty, the following are also to be attached: • An account of one’s connection with the organisation and the activities pursued at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, and one’s plans for future activities within the Faculty, or in connection with the Faculty. One’s connection with the Faculty should be verified by way of a letter of recommendation from the Head of Department.

Handling of application 1. Preliminary assessment When the application has been received and registered, it is first handled by the Academic Appointments Board (lärarförslagsnämnd), who carry out a preliminary assessment. If the Academic Appointments Board find the application to be of such inadequate quality that it should not be passed on to an external expert, the reasons for this standpoint are to be reported on in the minutes. The Academic Appointments Board can either propose that further information be added to the existing application and also provide advice regarding the application, or propose to the Dean to approve or reject the application. Before the Dean rejects the application, the applicant is given the opportunity to withdraw his or her application.

2. Appointment of external experts The Head of Department concerned is to submit proposals of two external experts who are Professors in the relevant subject and who do not have their employment at the University of Gothenburg. Proposals of external experts shall be prepared and drafted by the Academic Appointments Board, who then propose to the Chair that a decision be made. The secretary of the Academic Appointments Board then sends the application, and instructions, to the external experts.

3. Time allowed for external experts’ assessments External experts are to submit a written report to the Academic Appointments Board within two months of having received application documents, or, alternatively, at another time that has been agreed upon together with the Chair of the Academic Appointments Board. External experts, who, during the course of their work, find that they cannot complete the assignment within the time stipulated are to inform the Chair of the Academic Appointments Board about this. In the case of considerable delay, the Chair of the Academic Appointments Board has the right to terminate the external examiner assignment, and, after having obtained proposals from the department concerned, appoint a new external expert.

4. External expert’s report An external expert’s report is to be based on the criteria that are stated in this document. The report is to contain: separate evaluations of the applicant’s research/scholarly expertise, artistic expertise, and pedagogical expertise, as well as other qualifications – with reference to the projects submitted and other qualification documents; it is also to include a final, summarising assessment. The external examiner’s report is to result in a clear-cut recommendation as to whether the applicant should be admitted to an Honorary Associate Professorship, or not.

When necessary, the Academic Appointments Board can request that additional information be added to the external expert’s written report. If the external expert’s written report proves to be inadequate, or in the event of special circumstances, the Chair of the Academic Appointments Board has the right to

appoint one more external expert.

5. Proposal for a decision to be made When all written reports from the external expert have been submitted, the matter is handled in the Academic Appointments Board, who then submit a proposal to the Dean. The proposal is to signify either a recommendation or a rejection of the application.

6. Decision The decision regarding admission as an Honorary Associate Professor is made by the Dean.

7. Associate Professor Certification and Associate Professor Register After admission to an Honorary Associate Professorship, a certificate is issued verifying this; this certificate is then registered in an Associate Professor Register at the Faculty. An Associate Professor whose Associate Professorship is transferred to another higher education institution or Faculty, after their application, is deleted from the register. Should an Associate Professor be assessed as having lost contact with the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg or acted in a way that damages the Faculty’s reputation in a serious way, the Faculty Board can, after a hearing with the board concerned, take a decision that the Associate Professor is withdrawn from the register.

8. Associate Professorship Lectures Applicants who are admitted as Associate Professors are, as soon as possible, to be offered the opportunity to give an Associate Professorship Lecture; this lecture is to be on a subject of their choice and connected to their own research. The lecture should be designed in such a way that it does not require the audience to be familiar with the Associate Professor’s subject and research specialisation. This lecture should be organised and advertised by the department concerned in collaboration with the Faculty Office.

9. Conflict of interest By conflict of interest is meant any circumstance that results in the person who is to handle/administer a matter being considered as lacking in objectivity with regard to his or her standpoint or his or her presentation of the matter. Circumstances of this kind are referred to in Section 11 of the Swedish Public Administration Law (11 § FL (Förvaltningslagen). Any person who is aware of a circumstance that may be considered as being a conflict of interest against him or her shall make this known, This obligation applies to administrative officers, board members and external experts in a matter.

10. Associate Professorship Drafting Group The tasks, which, in accordance with the aforementioned, are the duties of the Academic Appointments Board, may, if the Faculty Board decides to do so, be transferred to another body, called the Associate Professorship Drafting Group. Members of this board are appointed from among the Professors on the doctoral programmes at the Faculty. Both scholarly and artistic competence are to be represented in the Associate Professorship Drafting Group.

11. Remuneration of External Expert An external expert is to be remunerated according to an amount established by the Dean.

In the event of any discrepancy between this translated document and the Swedish original, the original shall prevail. The Faculty assumes no responsibility for this translation or for direct, indirect or any other forms of damages arising from the translation.