Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor* in One Health and One Welfare with focus on resilient food production

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science

Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare

This recruitment is part of an excellence initiative – SLU Futures – which aims to attract and support promising young researchers within the strategic themes of Future Sustainable Plant Production Systems, Resilient Ecosystems, and One Health. The objective of the initiative is to create conditions for successful research in future-oriented, strong academic environments through long-term employment. Read more here www.slu.se/slu-futures.

This position as an associate senior lecturer will be located at the Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare. At the department, our goal is to promote good animal husbandry and animal welfare, as well as sustainable food production with high product quality through research and education about animals, focusing on feed and nutrition, care and environment, ethology and animal ethics, animal welfare, and animal protection.

Read more about the department here www.slu.se/en/about-slu/organisation/departments/department-of-applied-animal-science-and-welfare/

Read more about our benefits and what it's like to work at SLU here www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/.

Subject description

This position is based in animal science and veterinary medicine, but is multidisciplinary, being directed towards One Health and One Welfare in the context of resilient food production. The aim is to investigate how animal welfare interacts with animal housing, crop production and overall economic resilience - at the system level.

Duties 

This is a fixed-term appointment (4 years) as regulated in the Higher Education Ordinance. The role of associate senior lecturer is a career-development position that is the first step on the academic career path at SLU. 

The associate senior lecturer must develop an individual research profile within their subject. Research is expected to take place in collaboration with researchers both at the department and throughout the university. National and international collaborations are also expected. During their employment, an associate senior lecturer is entitled to apply for an evaluation review for promotion to senior lecturer. They will be assessed based on the criteria that are established when advertising the position of associate senior lecturer.

In addition, the successful applicant will be expected to

• compete for external research funding and publish scientific articles;
• act as an assistant supervisor for doctoral students;
• plan, develop, teach and examine theoretical and practical components at first, second and third cycle levels;
• participate in the required training in teaching and learning in higher education;
• collaborate and communicate with relevant players in the community;

The department uses Swedish and English in parallel. The associate senior lecturer should be able to perform the majority of their tasks in English. As a public authority, the university has Swedish as its main language according to the requirements of the Language Act and the associate senior lecturer must be able to use Swedish as their working language within four years of beginning the position. The department will provide support with language learning.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the position as associate senior lecturer, the applicant must have completed a doctoral degree or hold the equivalent academic expertise. Primary consideration should be given to someone who has been awarded a doctoral degree, or fulfils the eligibility requirement within seven years of the deadline for application for employment as an associate senior lecturer.

The applicant must

• demonstrate scientific competence in the subject for the appointment;
• have good knowledge of English;

Grounds of assessment

The assessment criteria for appointment as associate senior lecturer must be the degree of expertise required as qualification for employment.

Additionally, the following are to be assessed:

• The ability to develop an independent research profile within the subject for the appointment.
• The applicant has what is needed to meet the requirements for promotion to senior lecturer as part of the career-development position.

The appointment will be offered to the applicant who, following a qualitative comprehensive assessment, is in the best position to conduct and develop the duties in question, and contribute to the positive development of the organisation.

Application deadline:

2025-09-15

Place of work:

Uppsala

Scope:

100 %

Form of Employment:

This is a fixed-term appointment (4 years) as regulated in the Higher Education Ordinance. The role of associate senior lecturer is a career-development position that is the first step on the academic career path at SLU. During their employment, an associate senior lecturer is entitled to apply for an evaluation review for promotion to senior lecturer. They will be assessed based on the criteria that are established when advertising the position of associate senior lecturer.

* Swedish “biträdande universitetslektor”, a tenured position approximately equivalent to Associate senior lecturer (UK) or Assistant professor (US). The applicant who is offered this employment at SLU will be employed as Associate senior lecturer.

Starting date:

By agreement.

Application:

It is desirable that the application is written in English, because the applications will be evaluated by expert advisers both in Sweden and abroad.

For the guidance of your application, there is SLU's appointment procedure for teachers at SLU and General assessment criteria for the appointment of teachers, which you can read here.

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Academic union representatives:

https://internt.slu.se/en/my-employment/employee-associations/kontaktpersoner-vid-rekrytering/

 

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) has a key role in the development for sustainable life, based on science and education. Through our focus on the interaction between humans, animals and ecosystems and the responsible use of natural resources, we contribute to sustainable societal development and good living conditions on our planet. Our main campuses are located in Alnarp, Umeå and Uppsala, however, the university also operates at research stations, experimental forests and teaching sites throughout Sweden. SLU has around 3,000 employees, 5,000 students and doctoral students and a turnover of over SEK 3 billion. We are investing in attractive environments on all of our campuses. We strive to provide a work environment characterised by inclusivity and gender equality, where different experiences generate conversations between people and pave the way for science, creativity and development. Therefore, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.