Overview:
This is the second Call for the Future Professors Programme (FPP), a competitive and selective
program of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to prepare promising early-career academics to become a new cohort of South African professors across the disciplines. The Call, the second of three in successive years, seeks to identify a group of the country’s most talented young academics to benefit from a structured and intense program aimed at accelerating their readiness for the professoriate. Thus, it aims to produce a critical mass of academic excellence and leadership within South African Higher Education. The program is intended to complement initiatives hosted by both the DHET and individual universities aimed at developing a pipeline of early-career academics with an emphasis on black and woman scholars.
The program includes three core components: a residential series of seminars; a baseline evaluation which will help each scholar understand their standing in the discipline and propose trajectories for future development; and international engagement appropriate to the scholar’s particular intellectual project.
Eligibility:
- Academics preferably - but not exclusively - in the lecturer and senior lecturer categories in South African public universities, may be nominated by their universities.
- Applicants should hold a doctorate and already boast a track-record of some academic achievement that would signal advancement to the senior ranks of the academy.
- A deep commitment to the pursuit of advanced scholarship.
- Evidence of productive and imaginative scholarly work.
- Early signs of purpose and direction in academic work.
- Novelty, richness, and a willingness to take risks in the pursuit of large ideas.
- Personal qualities of self-awareness, traceability, and the need to grow.
- Evidence of resilience and persistence in the face of setbacks.
- A willingness to benefit from and contribute to a community of scholars
Application Required Document:
- A curriculum vitae including the following information:
- Name and date of birth.
- Contact details (work and cell phone) as well as a preferred email address.
- Educational history (including the title of the Ph.D. thesis, the year received [use date of graduation ceremony not the submission of thesis], the university that awarded the degree and the name/s of supervisor/s).
- Employment history (including the department where you currently serve and the name of your head of department).
- Publication record (including papers submitted/accepted and where).
- Research projects and funding you might have generated for your projects to date.
- Current teaching and supervisory responsibilities (distinguish undergraduate and postgraduate).
- Google Scholar H-Index and Scopus H-Index, if pertinent (some fields in the humanities, for example, don’t make use of this metric).
- A two-page evidence-based submission explaining how you meet the attributes listed above. This submission should include a commitment from the scholar to participate fully in the program if selected.
- Contact details of three referees.
- The application will be accompanied by an institutional nomination completed by your University’s designated authority addressed to the Project Leader, Professor Jonathan Jansen.
Application Process:
Applications should be submitted electronically no later than 31 July 2020 to the office of the
the designated authority of your University.
For More Info Check The FPP Website
