KMH invites applications for a position as Professor in Music Education

KMH invites applications for a position as Professor in Music Education at the Department of Music Education. Start 1 June 2015 or thereafter.

Application should be submitted to KMH not later than 16 January 2015.

Please note that this is a translation of the Swedish version of this advertisement. Should there be any inconsistencies between the two versions, it is the Swedish version that is the official one.

The Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH)

is Sweden's largest and oldest higher music education institution, and the only one which is a separat government authority. KMH educates more than 900 students per year in study programmes focusing on folk and traditional music, jazz, classical music, conducting, composition, music and media production, as well as music education. KMH also offers teacher education programmes and postgraduate research programmes in music and music education, and participates in extensive artistic and pedagogical research and development projects in Sweden and internationally.

The Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH)

invites applications for a full time and permanent position as

Professor in Music Education

at the Department of Music Education

Start date: 1 June 2015 or thereafter.

Description of the subject area

See the Swedish version.

Duties of the post

• The professor will promote the research of Music Education at KMH and exercise overall responsibility of supervision of doctoral students in Music Education.
• Teaching and tutoring on all academic levels both in English and in Swedish.
• Own research.
• Lead and encourage the research of other colleagues in the field, including active involvement in the application for and the winning of external research awards, and the creation and management of research projects.
• The professor is expected to be able to play a full part in the management and administration of both the Department and the College.
• Active participation in the development of KMH as a working place, including staff meetings. The Professor will serve, when required, as an examiner and/or assessor at undergraduate and graduate level, and will also participate in admission tests.
• It is expected that the successful candidate will foster a positive relationship between KMH, and the public, through engagement in public policy and knowledge exchange and to be responsive to public interest in Music Education.

Qualifications required

The eligibility criteria for employment as professor are research as well as teaching expertise (Higher Education Ordinance Ch 4 Sec 3).

In order to exercise the duties of this post, research expertise within the field of Music Education is required.

According to the regulations, research expertise should be demonstrated through independent research and the research expertise should be demonstrated through research activities of high international and national quality, published in international fora.

The ability to plan, initiate, lead and develop research, and to present proposals for and win external funding.

Teaching expertise must be demonstrated through witnessed qualifications in education and teaching.

A demonstrable record of successful supervision at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.

Necessary linguistic skills: English and Swedish. A candidate, who does not speak and write Swedish at the time of application, is expected to acquire these proficiencies within two years.

Assessment criteria

Assessment for the appointment of the professor shall be based on the degree of the skills required for the appointment. Teaching expertise will be assessed as carefully as research expertise.

According to KMH’s appointment regulations the following assessment criteria are used:

• The degree of scientific expertise, shown by the development, management and achievement of high quality research.
• The degree of teaching expertise, shown by the development, management and achievement of high quality education, and ability through an engaging manner, to foster a high level of achievement in students and doctoral students, and to inspire a wider understanding of the field of study.
• The degree of skill at outreach in communicating research within the field to a wider public.
• The degree of ability to take a lead in encouraging research achievement, and such personal skills that are necessary to perform the duties of the post.
• The degree of administrative and other skills that are of importance to the post.

Great importance will also be paid to personal skills such as the ability to initiate and collaborate within the research team, within KMH, and externally towards the public.

KMH will in this recruitment firstly consider the applicant that in the overall assessment of competence and expertise is judged to have the best potential to carry out and develop the relevant duties within the position and contribute to a positive development of the field of study and KMH.

Other information of importance

KMH is striving to attain a more balanced gender distribution among its teachers. Since most full professors in the Faculty are men, women are especially invited to apply for this position.

Further information:

For additional information about the position, please consult the Head of Department, Per-Henrik Holgersson,
per-henrik.holgersson@kmh.se, phone +46 73 461 86 02

Union representatives: Eva Wedin (SACO-S) phone +46 70 758 82 91, Ing-Marie Lindberg-Thörnberg (Lärarförbundet) phone +46 70 758 82 92.

How to apply

A complete application written in English shall be submitted, together with a description of your current research and teaching, no later than 16 January 2015, to registrator@kmh.se Copies of degrees etc. that you wish to refer to, must be witnessed and scanned.