Job description

Open to unconventional approaches in research and teaching, the University of Bremen has retained its character as a place of short distances for people and ideas since its founding in 1971. With a broad range of subjects, we combine exceptional performance and innovative potential. As an ambitious research university, we stand for research-based learning approaches and a pronounced interdisciplinary orientation. We actively pursue international scientific cooperation in a spirit of global partnership.
Today, around 23,000 people learn, teach, research and work on our international campus. In research and teaching, administration and operations, we are firmly committed to the goals of sustainability, climate justice and climate neutrality. Our Bremen spirit is expressed in the courage to dare new things, in supportive cooperation, in respect and appreciation for each other. With our study and research profile and as part of the European YUFE network, we assume social responsibility in the region, in Europe and in the world.

The Bremen research group investigates all areas around language learning, teaching, and assessment. We also examine multilingualism and pluriculturality, languages for specific purposes, and language learning, teaching and assessment in adult and higher education contexts.

A particular focus lies on language assessment. The advertised position is part of the Language Assessment @ Bremen group. Our multidisciplinary and international group consists of researchers and language practitioners, and we cooperate with international testing and research institutions. You can find further information on our research interests and projects at www.lab.uni-bremen.de.

Your responsibilities:

• Research responsibilities:
  • Conducting a doctoral dissertation project in the field of language learning, teaching and assessment, focusing preferably on language assessment r one of the aforementioned research areas.
  • Supportive and proactive participation in the development and coordination of research projects and networks; the organisation of guest lectures, conferences and other academic activities; academic publications and the acquisition of third-party funding.
     
• Teaching responsibilities:
  • Academic services in teaching currently amounting to one seminar (2 hrs./semester week), (including imparting specialist knowledge and practical skills, instruction in the application of research methods in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs to the extent of the applicable regulation, teaching export)
     
• Responsibilities in academic self-administration, inter alia committee work and other university duties if applicable.

Requirements

• completed MA / M.Ed. degree (or equivalent, passed with distinction) in the fields of Language Learning and Teaching, Language Testing and Assessment, Applied Linguistics, Didactics of Foreign Languages (preferably English or German as Foreign/Second Language), or Plurilingual / Pluricultural Education;
• high proficiency in German and English (minimum requirement CEFR level C1 in one of the two languages, B2 in the other);
• pedagogical suitability;
• independent working style and organisational competences;
• team-working, cooperation and communication skills.

Furthermore, your profile would be positively complemented by

• Engagement during your studies with one or more of the following areas: assessing language proficiency; developing and assessing plurilingual / pluricultural competences; teaching and learning languages in higher/adult education; quality assurance in the foreign language classroom; teaching, learning and assessing languages for specific purposes; as well as
• demonstration of skills in a further language.

General Information

The University of Bremen is a family-friendly, diverse and international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity. We particularly welcome international applications.

The University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of women in the academic field. The university received several awards for its gender equality programmes and is certified as family-friendly university.  Women are expressly encouraged to apply.

Persons with severe disability who have essentially equal professional and personal aptitude will be given priority.

For further information, please contact:
Prof. Dr. Claudia Harsch, Department 10 - Linguistics and Literature, University of Bremen
E-mail: harschprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

Please send your application with the usual documents (CV, certificates, list of lectures and publications, if applicable) and a brief description of a possible PhD project by 31.12.2024 quoting the reference number A334-24, as one PDF file by unencrypted electronic mail to skharschprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de or via post to

Universität Bremen
Fachbereich 10
z.Hd. Frau Donia Labidi
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen

Please only send us copies of your application documents (no folders) as we cannot return them. They will be destroyed after the selection procedure has been completed.

Any costs for the application process cannot be reimbursed.