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At the Department of Conservation, professionally oriented education and research are conducted with a focus on cultural heritage, landscapes and cultural environments, buildings, gardens, and objects. The Department has operations in two locations: Gothenburg and Mariestad. Object conservators and building antiquarians are educated in Gothenburg. In Mariestad, programmes are offered with a focus on building crafts, garden crafts, and landscape management.
Collaboration between the Department’s different knowledge areas, as well as with the wider national and international community, is an important part of its activities. Conservation is a subject area that brings together expertise from a broad field of knowledge spanning the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. Research in conservation has developed across a range of areas and themes. For more information, please visit www.conservation.gu.se
Duties
Teaching duties include planning, developing and delivering teaching at first- and second-cycle levels within objects conservation, with a particular focus on organic materials and/or preventive conservation in the bachelor's and master’s programmes in Conservation. Teaching at doctoral level and within commissioned education may also be included, as may teaching in other programmes and courses at the Department. Teaching takes place in both Swedish and English.
As a researcher, you are expected to participate actively in the Department’s research environments and seminar activities and, both independently and in collaboration with others, initiate and conduct research projects. As external research funding is an important prerequisite for the research activities of both the Department and individual staff members, the duties include actively contributing to the Department’s work to secure external funding. You are also expected to contribute to collaboration with the wider national and international community and to the development of the Department’s environment.
The position also includes carrying out the administrative duties associated with a teaching post and, in the longer term, taking part in and performing various leadership assignments. You are also expected to participate in work relating to university-wide assignments.
Qualifications
Eligibility for appointment as Senior Lecturer is laid down in Chapter 4, Section 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance and in the Appointments Procedure for Teachers at the University of Gothenburg.
To be eligible for appointment, the applicant must hold a doctoral degree in Conservation, or another PhD considered relevant in relation to the subject content of the position and the duties included in the appointment and must have demonstrated teaching expertise.
Experience of practical conservation work involving objects in several different organic material categories and/or preventive conservation is considered a merit.
Applicants must also have completed higher education teaching training corresponding to 15 credits or have acquired equivalent knowledge by other means. If the applicant has not completed such training at the time of appointment, it is expected to be completed within onw year from the start of employment.
The official language at the University of Gothenburg is Swedish, and teaching is normally conducted in Swedish at first-cycle level and in English at second-cycle level. Good language skills and the ability to teach in English are required. Applicants who do not speak Swedish at the time of appointment will be offered the opportunity, within the framework of their employment, to study Swedish to be able to teach in Swedish within two years.
If the successful applicant is recruited internationally and does not possess Swedish language proficiency at a minimum of level B2 according to the CEFR, Swedish language courses will be mandatory. The University of Gothenburg offers Swedish language courses within the framework of employment.
Assessment criteria
In the assessment of applicants, equal weight will be given to scientific and pedagogical expertise. Weight will also be given to experience of professional conservation practice and experience of collaboration with the wider community, nationally and internationally.
In the assessment of scientific expertise, publications of high scientific quality will be considered in the first instance. In addition, documented ability to initiate, plan and conduct research, experience of international work, and the ability to obtain research funding in competition will be taken into account.
Pedagogical expertise must be well documented so that both scope and quality can be assessed. Particular weight will be given to experience of planning and delivering teaching. Supervision at first-, second- and third-cycle levels is considered a merit.
Professional practice and experience of collaboration must be well documented.
In this recruitment, we will primarily consider the applicant who, following an overall assessment of scientific and pedagogical expertise, administrative experience, conservation practice and collaboration, is judged to have the best qualifications to carry out the duties of the position and to contribute to the positive development of the Department’s activities.
Employment
Type of employment: Permanent position
Extent: 100%
Location: Department of Conservation, Gothenburg
First day of employment: As agreed
For questions about the position
If you have any questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact:
Administrative Manager Lars Runnquist, telephone 031-786 93 60, email [email protected]
Union representatives
Information about union representatives at the University of Gothenburg is available here: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss/hjalpfor-sokande
Application
To apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you must register an account in our recruitment system. You apply for the position via the University of Gothenburg recruitment portal by clicking the “Apply” button. It is your responsibility to ensure that your application is complete in accordance with the advertisement and that it is submitted no later than the application deadline.
The following documents must be attached to your application:
- A personal letter explaining why you are interested in the position and describing your plans and intentions in research and other activities relevant to the appointment (maximum of two pages).
- CV, including a complete publication list.
- Copies of relevant degree certificates and other documents you wish to refer to.
- An account of your scientific merits and the reasons for the selection of the scientific publications (maximum 5) referred to in the application. Please state your role and contribution to the selected publications.
- Documentation of pedagogical merits, including information on the scope and type of teaching and an account of its quality. The report must also include pedagogical reflection and a teaching philosophy (maximum of two pages).
- Documentation (maximum 5 items) of professional practice.
- Documentation (maximum 5 items) of merits in leadership, administration and collaboration.
- Complete electronic copies of your most important publications (maximum 10).
- Two references, whom we may contact.
Documents that are not available in electronic format must be submitted in two copies.
The application must be received no later than: 18 August 2026
The University works actively to achieve a working environment with equal conditions, and values the qualities that diversity brings to its operations. Salaries are set individually at the University. In accordance with the National Archives of Sweden’s regulations, the University must archive application documents for two years after the appointment is filled. If you request that your documents are returned, they will be returned to you once the two years have passed. Otherwise, they will be destroyed. In connection to this recruitment, we have already decided which recruitment channels we should use. We therefore decline further contact with vendors, recruitment and staffing companies.
