Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship

Kerstin Hesselgren visiting professorship

The purpose of the Swedish Research Council’s grant for visiting professors is to give higher education institutions the opportunity to develop a subject area by recruiting an internationally prominent professor during a limited period.

Support form: Research environment and collaboration support

Subject area: Humanities and Social Sciences

Focus: The researcher nominated for the visiting professorship shall be an internationally prominent researcher within the areas of social sciences or humanities. The person nominated shall be a woman.

Applicant: Organisation. Swedish higher education institutions (HEI) with departments within social sciences, humanities, theology or law). A representative of the host department shall be invited to be the project leader for the application

Grant period: 6-12 months

Grant amount: Maximum 145 000 SEK per month for the stay, total maximum 1 740 000 SEK

Start of grant period: No earlier than January 2023

Application period: 13 January 2021 (14.00/2 pm) – 16 February 2021 (14.00/2 pm)

Publication of grant award: No later than November 2021

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Anders Sundin

In addition to reading the call text, you also need to consult our Guide for applicants.

Focus and nominated candidate

The holder of the Kerstin Hesselgren professorship shall be an internationally prominent researcher within the areas of social sciences or humanities. The person nominated shall be a woman.

The researcher proposed for the visiting professorship must not already be active in Sweden. The researcher must also be aware of the nomination and what acceptance of the professorship entails. If the nominated candidate declines to accept the professorship, the HEI cannot propose a replacement.

The visiting professor is expected to participate in the department’s research, and also to visit other departments across Sweden within their research area.

The visiting professor awarded the professorship shall be employed by the administrating organisation throughout the visit.

Applicant

The applicant for the grant must be a Swedish higher education institution (HEI) that has been approved as an administrating organisation for grants from the Swedish Research Council.

The application with a nominated candidate for the visiting professorship shall include a named researcher (project leader), who represents the department wishing to act as host for the visiting professorship. The project leader shall be employed by the administrating organisation at the start of and throughout the grant period and any further additional availability period, unless the Swedish Research Council approves an exception.

When the application is registered and signed in Prisma (see below), the HEI and the nominated department undertake to be responsible for the local hosting and all practical arrangements associated with the visiting professor’s visit to Sweden, if the visiting professorship is awarded.

Number of applications and previous grants

There is no limit to the number of applications a single HEI may submit, but a single candidate may only be nominated in one application.

Participating researchers

Costs and grant amounts

For the stay in Sweden, the maximum grant is 145 000 SEK per month for 6 to 12 months, and the total maximum is 1 740 000 SEK, including indirect costs.

Funding may be applied for to fund salary costs including social security contributions and insurance, rent of housing and travel between Sweden and the home country. The funding may also include travel costs for accompanying family members. The Swedish Research Council assumes that the administrating organisation will cover any costs in excess of the amount received.

Grant period

The visit to Sweden shall last no less than 6 months, and no longer than 1 year. The visit may be divided up into more than one period. If so, this shall be clearly stated and also justified in the application. The visit may however not be divided up in such a way that it cannot be completed within the availability period of the grant.

The professorship shall start during 2023. The entire grant amount will be paid during 2023, irrespective of when during the year the start occurs. The first payment will be made during January 2023 at the earliest.

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Language

Foreign experts may be involved in the scientific assessment of the applications. To ensure fair and equitable assessment and efficient processing, please therefore complete your application in English.

Sections of the application

• Descriptive information

The information we request under each tab is described below.

Descriptive information

Under this tab, please state the name of the nominated researcher, their current HEI and country as project title (such as “Anna Smith, University of xx, USA”), and project period (the length of the visiting professorship in number of months).

Abstract

• name, university and country of the nominated researcher
• time (dates) for the visit
• brief justification for the visit
• planned programme

The description may cover a maximum of 1 500 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one third of an A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.

Research descriptionEthical considerations

Describe the ethical issues raised by the research. Also describe the plan on how to address ethical dilemmas that may arise. Please justify why the research should be carried out against the background of the ethical issues identified. How do the questions and expected results measure up in relation to the ethical issues? Please also state whether the research involves any handling of personal data, or experiments on animals or human subjects. If no ethical issues are raised, please justify this.

The justification may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately 1 A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.

Research programme

The research programme shall consist of brief but complete information about the nomination. It shall cover a maximum of 8 page-numbered A4 pages in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins, including references and any images.

The research programme must include the following headings and information, listed in the following order:

• The researcher and her research. Present the nominated researcher and her research.
• Justification: Justify the visiting researcher’s visit.
• Contribution to research: Describe how the visiting researcher may contribute to Swedish research within the area in question.
• Plan for department participation: Specify the planning of the visiting researcher’s participation at the host department and other departments in Sweden.

Nominated visiting professor

• the competency the visiting researcher is expected to bring to the host department
• the length of the visit, and whether it is divided up and, if so, how
• the department(s) or corresponding where the visiting professor will be active, and the name of the representative (head of department or corresponding) of the department(s)

The nominated person’s CV and publication list

Please attach a brief CV with full address details (including email address) and current position of the nominated researcher. Please also attach a publication list, divided up into Peer-reviewed articles, Other articles and Books.

Please also note that no CV data or publications shall be entered elsewhere in the application.

Budget and research resourcesSalary

Please state the salary applied for the visiting professor (select the role “Participating researcher” in the table), both as a percentage of a full-time salary and as actual annual amount (including social security contributions and insurance). Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.

Running costs

Describe the nominated visiting professor’s costs of rent of housing or travel between Sweden and the home country on separate lines. Please state the amounts in Swedish krona, rounded to the nearest 1 000 SEK.

Total cost of the visiting professorship

Prisma will automatically add up your budget items listed in a table. The total amount applied for shall also include indirect costs. These shall be added to the table by the applicant (project leader). Here the applicant (project leader) can also add any additional costs that the activities entail (for which you are not seeking funding under this call).

Justification of the budget applied for

Justify briefly each cost applied for in the budget stated. The description may cover a maximum of 4 000 characters including blank spaces. This is approximately one A4 page in Arial, font size 11, single line spacing.

Administrating organisationParticipants

Here the person invited to be the project leader for the application may invite participating administrators. Please note that participating researchers may not be invited in this application.

Evaluation process

The evaluation of the applications consider the proposed visiting professors scientific merits and position internationally together with the relevance for the call regarding how well the visiting professor can contribute to the development of both the host institutions`s activity and Swedish research in general in the relevant field.

Your application is evaluated by a review panel where the members are Swedish researchers.

At least three members review and grade your application individually. The entire review panel meets at a review panel meeting to discuss and prioritise the applications, and finally to make a proposal for a decision to the scientific council for humanities and social sciences.

The applicant will receive an individual final statement that reflects the review panel´s discussion of the scientific quality and relevance of the application.

Evaluation criteria and guiding questions

The evaluation of the visiting professor scientific quality and position internationally is assessed on a seven-grade scale.

For each criterion, there are guiding questions to support the panel members´evaluation of your application. These can also function as guidance for you when you write your application.

Scientific merit and position internationally of the visiting professor (1-7)

Guiding questions:

• How strong is the nominee´s position internationally?

Relevance for the call: The motivation for the stay, especially how well the visiting professor can contribute to the development of the host institution´s activities and Swedish research in general in the relevant field (1-7)

Guiding questions:

• To what extent is the project relevant to the focus area and how does the project promote the development of humanities and social sciences in a broad sense?
• How well motivated is the nominee`s stay?
• Is there a plan for the nominee`s participation at the host institution and other institutions in the country? How can the nominees contribute to the development of the host institution`s activities?
• How can the nominees contribute to the development of Swedish research in general in the relevant field?