Stillingstittel:
Associate Professor in Organizational Anthropology

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Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology ManagementDepartment of Social Anthropology

Jobbnorge ID: 121302

The Department of Social Anthropology is announcing a permanent position as Associate Professor in Organizational Anthropology. The position is full time.

 

Information about the Department

The Department of Social Anthropology employs 9 associate professors, 2 professors, 4 PhD fellows and 3 administrative staff.  

 

The Department has a Bachelor, a Master and a PhD programme in Social Anthropology. Currently there are 14 PhD students enrolled in the PhD programme. The Department also hosts the interdisciplinary Bachelor programme of African Studies.

 

Ethnographically, the department's research spans parts of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, South-East Asia and Scandinavia. In addition to the classical themes of social anthropology, recent research interests have focused on processes of objectification, measurement and standardization, livelihood, work mobility and migration, and African (especially Ethiopian) peasant adaptations. Recently, the Department has defined three strategic research areas: Global inequality, Culture, innovation and future, and Organizational anthropology. The current position relates to the strategic area Organizational anthropology. In the past decade, organizational anthropology has been an important area of research and teaching at the Department of Social Anthropology. The research has been focused on ethnography in organizations, global production systems and multicultural workforce and work life with a specific regional focus on Norway and Western societies. The Department is  also in the process of building competence on organizational forms in non-Western societies, particularly on labour relations and management in fast growing economies in the regions in which the department possesses general ethnographic competence.

 

Obligations

• teach courses in general anthropological theory and methods in social anthropology, with a specific responsibility for the continued development of teaching in organizational anthropology.
• participate in teaching activities in accordance with the relevant curriculum and to take part in further development of the teaching programme.
• participate in work connected with student exams without special remuneration.
• undertake supervision of Bachelor-, Master- and PhD students in his/her discipline.
• participate in administrative work.
• take an active part in developing the Department's research activities within organizational anthropology. He or she will also have the right and obligation to carry out research within his/her professional field and to be jointly responsible for academic matters together with other academic staff in the Department.

The Associate Professor will be obliged to follow the regulations that concern changes and developments within the discipline and/or the organizational changes concerning activities at NTNU.

 

Qualifications

The successful applicant must have a completed PhD in social anthropology as well as demonstrate research competence within organizational anthropology with a specific focus on ethnography of organizations or global production systems. Evaluation of the applicant will be based on documented scientific material. Applicants with documented ability to publish in recognized international scientific journals will be prioritized. In the evaluation process, scientific work from the past five years will be given particular

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: NTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelig

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 7491 TRONDHEIM

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Sør-Trøndelag

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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Lønn periode: Pr. år