Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Education Management and Leadership at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct innovative research in the following areas: Education Management and Leadership; school violence and learner (in)discipline and obtain evidence- based empirical data on current developments in leadership and management practices of addressing school violence and learner (in)discipline within the South African context.
• Author/co-author at least three (3) publication outputs per year in the form of DHET– accredited scholarly journal articles or books/chapters in books.
• Initiate research projects and seek funding for them.
• Do limited teaching in the Programmes where appropriate.
• Provide limited supervision and/or co-supervision at Honour’s, master’s and/or Doctoral level where appropriate.
• Register and reside as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UFS and participate in relevant activities in the Faculty of Education the School of Postgraduate Studies and the Directorate of Research Development.

Eligibility criteria

• A PhD on NQF Level 10 with a focus on Education management and leadership.
• Open to all South African and foreign nationals for full-time research at the University of the Free State.
• The fellowship will terminate once your PhD degree reaches the fifth (5th) year of graduation.
• Successful applicants may not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship
• Successful applicants must be able to relocate to UFS for the duration of the fellowship. 
• This is a residential fellowship: the successful applicant is required to spend 80% of her/his postdoctoral period at the UFS Qwaqwa Campus.