Teacher Education and Professional Development Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct innovative research in the following areas: Practitioner/Educator Professional Development; Curriculum reform and Facilitation of Learning.  
• 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.
• The renewal of the fellowship beyond the first year depends on satisfactory performance and the submission of an annual progress report.
• 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 successful candidate will be required to conduct innovative research and obtain evidence- based empirical data on current developments in Teacher Education and professional development studies within the South African context.

Eligibility requirements:

• Open to all South African and foreign nationals for full-time research at the University of the Free State.
• Graduated with a relevant PhD degree, with a focus on Teacher Education and Professional Development studies within the last five years.
•  Successful candidates must remember that 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 the 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 Bloemfontein Campus.