Childhood Studies Professorship

5 days ago

Århus, Århus Kommune, Denmark Aarhus Universitet (AU) Full time

The Danish School of Education at Aarhus University invites applications for a full professorship in childhood studies and educational anthropology. The position is a full-time, permanent opportunity available from 1 March 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

As a professor in this field, you will be part of the Department of Educational Anthropology and Educational Psychology and based at either Emdrup Campus in Copenhagen or Aarhus Campus.

Key responsibilities include taking part in daily activities of the department, including research and teaching, as well as management and organisational boards.

Research Focus

Your primary focus will be on continuing and expanding research and teaching activities at the highest level within social and cultural childhood studies and educational anthropology at DPU.

Children's everyday lives in and across institutional settings are at the centre of the research activities at the department.

Research into various groups of children who differ in terms of age, ethnicity, social situation, or geographical location is pivotal, as is research into children and childhood in the welfare state.

The department's activities also include teaching and supervision in these subjects on the Master's and PhD degree programmes.

Academic Leadership

You will play a leading role in consolidating the fertile and diverse academic environment related to childhood studies at the Department of Educational Anthropology and Educational Psychology and at the Danish School of Education as a whole.

This includes contributing to core activities in the areas of research, education, talent development, and knowledge exchange, and exercising academic leadership relating to research, education, and academic development.

Qualifications and Requirements

  • A strong profile and track record within the field of social and cultural childhood studies combined with an ethnographic empirical research approach.
  • Documented original scientific production at the highest international level and significant scholarly contributions to theoretical, methodological, and thematic developments within the field of childhood studies.
  • Vision for future developments in the field, as well as a solid track record in research leadership, research funding, and international research cooperation.
  • Able to document active participation in international research collaboration and experience in research organisation, including obtaining and administering external funding within the field of childhood studies and educational anthropology.
  • Strong teaching competences and experience in supervising at all levels, as well as commitment to teaching development, supervision of student projects, talent development, research management, and the development of PhD courses.
  • Experience in leading, supporting, and developing fertile academic environments.

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