Tentative timeline
- Announcement
- Application deadline is 2 May 2016
- Trial lectures will be held 21 November 2016
- Interviews will be held 22 November 2016
- Board of the Departments meeting 30 January 2017
- Appointment Committee of the Faculty Boards meeting 24 February 2017
- Position available from 1 April 2017
Number of applicants: 24
Selection committee
- Head of Research Stan Hawkins, University of Oslo (administrator)
- Professor Tor Endestad, University of Oslo
- Professor Isabelle Peretz, University of Montreal
Expert committee
- Head of Research Stan Hawkins, Univeristy of Oslo (administrator)
- Professor Raymond MacDonald, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Isabelle Peretz,University of Montreal
- Professor Stefan Koelsch, Universitet i Bergen
Interview committee
Formal interview committee
- Professor Bruno Laeng,Department of Psychology University of Oslo (administrator)
- Vice-Dean for Research Ellen Rees, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo
- Student Simen Christensen Grøgaard, Department of Musicology and Department of Psychology
Academic representative, not formal member of the interview committee
- Professor Anne Danielsen, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo
The selection committee, expert committee and interview committee must be impartial (Norwegian).
The steps and committees of the hiring process
- Selection committee - selects applicants for further assessment by the expert committee. Available to applicants, but not open to public viewing.
- Expert committee - assesses applicants academic qualifications. Available to applicants, but not open to public viewing
- Interview committee - final assessment of the applicants, based on the report of the expert committee, the trial lecture, interviews and referee interviews. The recommendation is neither open to applicants nor to public viewing
- The Department Board - recommendation of at least three competent applicants in ranked order. Neither open to applicants nor to public viewing
- The Appointment Committee of the Faculty Board - passes the final decision in the hiring process
Minutes from the meetings of the Department Board and the Appointment Committee are open to public viewing.