[AISWorld] Professor of Information systems, with a special definition: human-centred development and utilization

Wed Feb 26 12:37:34 EST 2014

Dear ISWorld Listserv Members: 
University of Oulu announces two faculty positions:
(1) Professor of Information systems, with a special definition: human-centred development and utilization;(2) Professor in Software Engineering, with a special definition:  empirical software engineering;
In the previous email titled "Professor of Information systems" (which was sent out 40 minutes ago), the content of the email was actually for the second position "Professor in Software Engineering".
Sorry about the confusion.
The current email (see below) is correct.  
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Professor of Information
systems, with a special definition: human-centred development and utilization

Job Title, Field and
Location

The University of Oulu
has openings for one faculty position at the level of Full Professor ofInformation
Systems. The field of the position has been specified as human-centred
development and utilization. The position is located at the Department of
Information Processing Science, Faculty of Information Technology and
Electrical Engineering. Altogether, there are 10 professors at the Department,
in the fields of information systems and software engineering. In addition,
there are 12 lecturer positions, 13 post-doctoral positions, 5 teachers, and 25
doctoral student positions. Other permanent staff consists of 12 researchers
and 2 persons in student counseling activities.

Information systems (IS)
research in the Department of Information Processing Science excels in the
research area of human-centered development and utilization, and the department
has very strong connections to industry. Recently, IS research of
the department has been evaluated as “Excellent” (5/6) in an
external international evaluation of the research at University of Oulu
(RAE 2013). In the Top-100 Rankings of Schools (2009-2011, MISQ and ISR) the
department was ranked as the 41st best IS school. Faculty members of the
department have published their research in leading Information Systems
journals, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the
Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems,
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Behaviour and Information
Technology, Information Technology and People. and others. Faculty members hold
editorial positions in reputable IS journals.

There are two main
research groups working in this area, INTERACT and OASIS. The INTERACT (Human
Interaction with Advanced Mobile Services and Intelligent Environments)
research group focuses on understanding and supporting participatory design and
user-centered design with technology in divergent everyday life contexts (http://www.oulu.fi/tol/node/20094);
the OASIS (Oulu Advanced Research on Software and Information Systems) research
group focuses on understanding technology-mediated human attitude and/or
behavior change, developing methods and strategies for persuasive systems
design, and envisioning for the next generation of the web (http://www.oasis.oulu.fi/).

The Department provides
courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Master of Science,
Licentiate of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy. The annual intake of
students for the Bachelor’s degree is limited to 100 and for the Master’s
degree to 40. Teaching language at the Bachelor level is Finnish and at the
Master level English. The Department also runs international Master’s Degree
Program (GS3D), where the annual intake of students is limited to 50. The three
year’s average number of degrees awarder in years 2011-2013 was 48 Bachelor’s
degrees, 69 Master’s degrees and 7 Doctoral degrees.

Job Responsibilities,
Required Qualifications

The professor is expected
to actively participate in the Department’s quantitative, qualitative, design
science or theory development research in the area of information systems (IS)
and to actively advance all IS research carried out in the department. In
addition to conducting research of high international quality, the professor is
expected to actively participate in the Department’s teaching in the IS
research area.

The professor will be
required to follow progress in the field, pursue and guide scientific research
and carry out and develop teaching in the field, hold examinations, guide
practical exercises, mark written examinations and preliminary essays, and
evaluate research papers and dissertations. In addition to these,
administrative duties, participation in student admission and other tasks are
included in the annual total of 1 600 working hours.

The salary will be based
on levels 8–10 of the demands level chart for teaching and research personnel
in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee will
be paid a salary component based on personal work performance (maximum of 46.3
% of the job-specific component). The base salary is paid for 12 months in a
year being in practice roughly 70 000–97 000 € per year, depending on the
appointee’s qualification and experience. In addition, the employee is entitled
to annual incentive and project bonuses paid on the basis of approved
reward systems and profit center specific awarding criteria in the University
of Oulu. Additionally, the employee is entitled to health care benefits.

Under section 33 of the
Universities Act, a professor shall carry out and supervise scientific or
artistic work, give education based on it and follow developments in science or
art and participate in societal interaction and international cooperation in
his or her field.

The required
qualifications for the professor position include a doctoral degree, high
quality scientific or artistic competence, experience in supervising scientific
research, the ability to give high quality education based on research and to
supervise final theses, as well as evidence of international collaboration in
his or her field of research.

When assessing the
candidate’s merits, issues taken into consideration include scientific
publications and other research results with scientific or artistic value,
teaching experience and pedagogical training, the skill to create teaching
material, other teaching merits, the demonstration lecture, and the doctoral
theses the candidate has supervised. In addition to this, the following merits
will be taken into consideration as well: the candidate’s activity in the
scientific community; when necessary, practical familiarity with the field in
question; success in acquiring supplementary funding, scientific work abroad
and international activities.

Application procedure

Applications, including
any attachments, should be submitted using the electronic application form byMarch
24th; 2014 at the following address:

in Finnish:

http://www.saimanet.com/certiahome/open_jobs_view_new.html?did=5600&lang=fi&jc=1&new_ijob_request=true

in English:

http://www.saimanet.com/certiahome/open_jobs_view_new.html?did=5600&lang=en&jc=1&new_ijob_request=true

The following documents
must be attached to the application:

1)     a
brief curriculum vitae in English written in accordance with
the instructions given in this Position Description;

2)     a
list of publications classified as follows: (1) articles in
international peer-reviewed journals,  (2) articles in international
peer-reviewed volumes of scientific significance and articles in peer-reviewed
conference proceedings, (3) articles in domestic peer-reviewed journals, (4)
articles in domestic peer-reviewed volumes of scientific significance and
articles in domestic peer-reviewed conference proceedings, (5) scientific
monographs, (6) other original publications, e.g., articles in scientific
journals and conference proceedings with no peer-review process, and in
university or department publications;

3)     teaching
merits of relevance to the post concerned are requested to be
presented in the form of a teaching portfolio, or a comparable
document; in the portfolio (or other document), table of contents presented on
page 5 should be followed;

4)     a
brief research and action plan with the candidate’s own
research in relation to the department’s existing research (in English);

5)     at
most twenty (20) publications and other works indicated in accordance with the
list of publications, to be taken into consideration upon assessment of
applicant's eligibility and merits.

Before being appointed to
the position, original or certified copies of diplomas and a signed copy of
curriculum vitae are to be submitted to the faculty.

Referee Assessment

A minimum of two referees
will be appointed by the faculty to assist in the filling of the post. When
selecting the reviewers, the specialization of the candidate in his/her field
is taken into consideration, and general fairness is observed otherwise as
well.

The applicants will be
informed about the selection of the reviewers. Finland’s laws for public
administration will be invoked and applied for assessing any potential
disqualification of an expert.  When the reviewers hand in their
statements, these will be sent to the applicants immediately.

Official Employment

The Dean will make his
proposition on the basis of the recruitment committee and will submit this, justifications
and attachments included, to the Rector, who will make the decision concerning
the employment of the successful applicant.

Contact information

In order to be sure of
receiving the information and announcements issued in the course of the
selection process, the candidate must provide the University with the necessary
contact information as follows: address to which the written
communications have to be sent; telephone number at work and at home; email
address and fax number.

For further information
regarding the filling of this post, please contact Faculty of Information
Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu:

Professor Markku Oivo,
Head of the Department

Department of Information
Processing Science

PL 3000, FI-90014 Oulu
University

tel. +358 (0) 29 448
1988, fax +358 (0) 29 448 1890

email:
markku.oivo at oulu.fi

Professor Harri
Oinas-Kukkonen, Chairman of the Search Committee

Department of Information
Processing Science

PL 3000, FI-90014 Oulu
University

tel. +358 40 1934006, fax
+358 (0) 29 448 1890

email:
harri.oinas-kukkonen at oulu.fi

Laila Kuhalampi, Chief
Administrator

Faculty of Information
Technology and Electrical Engineering

PL 3000, FI-90014 Oulu
University

tel.  +358 (0)
29 448 2005

email: laila.kuhalampi at oulu.fi

Relevant Regulations

University Law (558 /
2009) and Statute (770 / 2009); University of Oulu Administration Principles

17.8.2009)

Appendix 1

CURRICULUM VITAE

1.   LASTNAME,
given name

2.   Date and
place of birth

3.  
Citizenship

4.   Address,
telephone, email, fax

5.   Education
and training

6.   Present
position

7.   Fields of
research

8.   Previous
professional appointments*

9.   Report of
teaching merits

10. Research awards,
honours and major grants*

11. Editorial board
membership*

12. Memberships in
scientific societies*

13. Other academic and
professional merits and activities*

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*:

8 and
10-12)            
Total in years (for example 1986 – 1996) or more precisely in years and months
(for example, altogether 14 months during 1996 – 1998)

Appendix 2

TEACHING PORTFOLIO TABLE
OF CONTENTS

In agreement with the
procedures accepted in the University of Oulu, teaching skills mentioned in the
Appointments Statute (770/2009) will be evaluated according to the outline
below:

1      
Teaching philosophy, teaching strategies and methods

-    
teacher’s self-reflection on his/her teaching style, a personal background idea
of teaching; how are these reflected in teaching work? A description of oneself
as a teacher and an implementer of educational work

2.     
Practical experience in teaching and efforts to improve teaching

3.     
Description of educational material (curricula, hand outs, assignments,
workbooks)

4.     
Professional development as a teacher

5.     
Evaluation from teaching (student evaluations, peer evaluations, awards and
assessed test lectures)

6.     
Future teaching goals and plans

-    
teacher’s plans for future directions in his/her teaching development, for
example in relation  to the teaching curriculum of the department

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