About Junior Faculty

January 2007 the LiU-Junior Faculty started as a university-wide network for young researchers and teachers. LiU-Junior Faculty is an arena for researchers that hold a doctoral degree and aim for docentship or docents without permanent tenure. This network aims at representing and supporting junior postdoctoral researchers in their career, to assist the university in strengthening the competence of junior researchers and to reinforce the expansion of research.The LiU-Junior Faculty Club intends to create an intellectually stimulating arena helping to assist junior researchers in career-development and provide an interdisciplinary and university-wide network contributing to strengthening their independent identity as researchers.

Our most visible activity is the seminar series Junior Faculty Club, which typically takes place one Thursday afternoon per month, with seminars and workshops that are relevant to the skill development and career strategy of junior researchers.

Aims for LiU-Junior Faculty

• to promote the future faculty and research within LiU
• to strengthen the position of research at LiU - both nationally and internationally
• to create a network for interdisciplinary co-operation between researchers
• to observe the position of LiU in national and international co-operation between Junior Faculties at other universities
• to provide a platform for career support and intellectual exchange via workshops, seminars, mentorship
• to promote a transparent tenure track system for researchers at LiU

Our definition of a Junior Faculty member:

- a junior researcher, who holds a PhD degree and carries on active research at LiU, but is not yet established as an independent researcher with their own research group.

We also welcome Ph.D. students, in particular in the last year before the dissertation, as members and to our seminar series, but to get actively involved with the questions that we are working with, personal experience of post-doctoral academic work is valuable.

Junior Faculty Organization

In LiU-Junior Faculty, it is possible to get actively involved in working towards the aims outlined above. There are three instances in which one can get involved:

• Faculty-specific work groups - Here we work with questions and activities that are specific to the junior researchers of the faculties of LiU.
• Reference group - Here we work with university wide questions and interdisciplinary activities.
• Junior Facutly Office - This is where our administrative work is performed.

Junior Faculty Office

Coordination of the network, information and activities
Project officers: Ing-Marie Ahl and Volodymyr Khranovskyy

Contact LiU-JF Office

Junior Faculty Boards

Official board at each faculty

JF Board at the department of Health Sciences

JF Board at the department of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Educational Sciences

JF Board at the Institute of Technology

Plan of operations

Verksamhetsplan LiU-JF 2011.pdf (Plan of operations)