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Professor (W2 salary scale HBesG, Hessian Federal Civil Service Remuneration Act) in the following subject area: "Quantitative methods of empirical social research and data literacy"

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

Frankfurt am Main
Permanent
Full Time
Apply by: 2025-02-07
Published: 2025-01-10
With over 15,000 students and 1,000 lecturers, researchers and employees in the heart of Frankfurt am Main, we are one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Germany. Our mission is to support students on their way to becoming responsible shapers of the future. We align our actions with our strategic goals of practical interdisciplinarity, internationality, sustainability, digitalization and social responsibility. Through excellent teaching and research, we bring together business, politics and society in the region and beyond. Together with our partners in the U!REKA University Alliance, we form a European university.
We are looking to fill the following position in Faculty 4: Health and Social Work as soon as possible:

Professor
(W2 salary scale HBesG, Hessian Federal Civil Service Remuneration Act)
in the following subject area:
„Quantitative methods of empirical social research and data literacy”
Kennziffer P02/2025

The professorship will represent the field of quantitative-empirical social research in theory, teaching and research and teach quantitative research methods including statistics in various teaching formats in the department's Bachelor's and Master's degree programs. This explicitly includes the increasingly important area of data literacy. The department expects commitment to the perpetuation of concepts of research-based learning and data literacy education in all degree programs. We require knowledge and experience of application-oriented research processes with a clear connection to social work issues. Experience with mixed-methods approaches in this field of research is an advantage.
Active participation in the research institutes, in particular at the Competence Center for Social Intervention Research (KomSI) of the Department of Social Work and Health and the acquisition and implementation of own third-party funded projects are desired. The fulfillment of the admission requirements at the Hessian Doctoral Center for Social Work and the supervision of doctoral projects are desirable.
We require a degree in social sciences and a relevant doctorate, preferably in social work, sociology, educational science or similar.
Please apply with a teaching and research concept.

We offer:

  • Structured onboarding by the department and our university didactics week
  • Self-determined work with a lot of scope for content and time as well as our offers as part of the “family-friendly university audit”
  • Internationally oriented environment to carry out teaching and research projects (e. g. U!REKA European University)
  • Support in preparing your national and international research proposals from our “Research, Innovation and Transfer – FIT” department
  • Lively campus in the heart of Europe with an extensive sports and events program (CampusSport, CampusKultur)
  • Free Hesse state ticket and good transport connections (public transport, underground car park), bicycle-friendliness (including bicycle parking spaces, service stations and service pedelecs).
Further information on what makes a professorship with us so exciting, can be found at:
The position is available for an unlimited period of time. When first appointed to a professorship, employment is initially on a probationary civil service basis or on a permanent employment basis with a three-year probationary period.
Conditions of employment, further duties and prerequisites result from §§ 67 - 69, 75 und 76 of the Hessian Higher Education Act; to be viewed at .
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity. People with disabilities are given preference in cases of equal personal and professional suitability. As a holder of the "Family-friendly University" certificate, the university will take your individual family situation into account when organizing your working hours.

Contact

Applications with the usual informative documents (including list of publications, projects, description of previous teaching and research activities, teaching and research concept) are requested by February 07, 2025, quoting the reference number, by e-mail to info-prof@hr.fra-uas.de (please send all documents in one PDF file):
To the President of the
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Human Resources
Nibelungenplatz 1, 60318 Frankfurt

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