Organisatie
Functieomschrijving
Research You will develop acoherent research programme in the domain of Applied Linguistics, and you will strive for research outcomes of an excellent international level. Depending on your research profile, you will join the research unit Linguistics or the research unit Translation Studies, and within this unit the research department that your research domain ties in with best. You will also support and develop interfaculty, national and international relations within your research department. You will take initiatives to acquire competitive funding, and will actively collaborate in the development of future research projects. Teaching You will Ensure high-quality education in the domains of Polish language proficiency and linguistics, and, depending on your profile, in the domains of translation and/or professional communication. Your teaching assignment will be situated in the programmes in the field of Applied Language Studies at KU Leuven's Brussels campus. You are prepared, when this is deemed advisable, to take on a teaching assignment in the field of Slavonic and East European Studies, which also offers Polish, at the Leuven campus aswell. If it carries added value for the courses concerned, you will actively pursue interaction with the relevant professional field. You are expected to develop your didactic approach in accordance with KU Leuven's view on activating and research-based education, and to make use of the opportunities for didactic professionalization offered by the Faculty and the university. You will also contribute to the Faculty's pedagogic project by supervising bachelor and master dissertations in the relevant programmes of the Faculty of Arts. Service You are prepared to take on internal administrative and management duties, and to provide scientific services to third parties.
Profiel
You hold a PhD in Slavonic & East European Studies, or a PhD in Linguistics (or a relevant related diploma), which had Polish as its key object of study. You possess outstanding didactic qualities suited for academic education. Experience in teaching Polish as a foreign language is considered a plus, as is experience in employing digital learning tools in foreign language teaching. You have an excellent track record in research in one or more of the domains relevant to the vacancy.The quality of your research should be demonstrated by high-level international publications. You possess organisational skills and have a cooperative attitude. Your application file should include a fully developed research proposal for the coming years (min.two pages) and a profile statement outlining your view on teaching (max. two pages). The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable you to take part in meetings. Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch resp. English to the required standard.
Aanbod
We are offering full-time employment in an intellectually challenging environment. KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research. It is highly focused on inter- and multidisciplinarity, and strives for international excellence. In this regard, it actively collaborates with research partners in Belgium and abroad. It provides its students with an academic education that is based on high-quality scientific research. You will be working at the Faculty of Arts's Brussels campus in the throbbing heart of Brussels, the dynamic capital of Belgium and Europe. On campus you will not only experience a challenging working environment in the Faculty of Arts, but the presence of the Faculties of Law and Economics will equally offer ample opportunities for collaboration. You will be appointed as an assistant professor for a period of 3 years. In the case of a postdoctoral fellowship, you can be asked to finish your fellowship first. For this period, you will be appointed as a part-time assistant professor.