Assistant professor at the Department of Globalization and Communication at the Institute of Cultural Studies

No 89.2025.ZGLK.IKul.WNHP.AH of 13.11.2025

Institute/Department: Department of Globalization and Communication, Institute of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences

Position: assistant professor

Type of position: research and teaching

• in research discipline: cultural and religious sciences
• in research field: humanities

Vacancies/positions:1

Type of contract: full time

Application deadline: 19.12.2025

Estimated date of the contest settlement: 30.01.2026

Envisaged job starting date: 21.02.2026

Period of employment: temporary

The competition is open to each candidate who meets the requirements set out in the Higher Education and Science Act of July 20th 2018 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668 as amended) and the Statute of University of Wroclaw.

Condition to be met by candidates:

1. Leghold a doctoral degree in the field of the humanities, in the discipline of culture and religion studies or a related discipline.
2. Proof of publication within the last four years of a research monograph or three highly rated research articles corresponding to the discipline of Cultural and Religion Studies in journals on the ministerial list of bullet journals; or chapters in peer-reviewed collective monographs published in publications on the ministerial list of bulleted publications.
3. Knowledge of the theory of culture, philosophy of contemporary humanities;
4. Knowledge of cultural anthropology;
5. Knowledge of media and communication issues;
6. A proven interest in the transformations of contemporary culture, especially in its psychosocial dimension and global reach;
7. Documented experience in teaching in higher education institutions and skills in this area (the jury reserves the right to ask the candidates for an open lecture).
8. Knowledge of the Polish language (spoken and written) to the extent necessary to conduct lectures
9. Active knowledge of at least one congress language as demonstrated by participation in international scientific life: for example, participation in scientific projects, foreign scientific conferences, presenting papers in the congress languages and publishing research papers in this language in foreign publications.

In addition:

1. Knowledge of English to the extent allowing for the conduct of classes will be highly valued.
2. Preference will be given to candidates with proven experience in obtaining external funds for the implementation of scientific research or the implementation of team research or educational projects certified by managing or participating in a foreign or domestic project financed by funds obtained in domestic or foreign, open competition procedures (including the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, NCN, NCBiR or FNP); or obtaining equivalent financial support for research from domestic or foreign institutions, or submitting at least one application in grant competitions that was evaluated positively (in the case of a known score achieving a minimum of 70%) in the last evaluation stage, but did not gain funding due to lack of funds.

Responsibilities (respectively in the research, teaching, organizational area):

1. Preparation of scientific publications, published in high-scoring journals and prestigious publications;
2. Conducting classes with students of the BA and MA degree studies (also in English).
3. Applying for internal and external (including international) research grants;
4. Active participation in conferences;
5. Fulfilling duties related to organizational work for the Institute of Cultural Studies;
6. Promoting and popularizing science.

The application for the competition should include

1. Personal  questionnaire  (download Personal questionnaire).
2. Curriculum vitae.
3. A photocopy of the diploma certifying the master’s degree and Ph.D. or post-Ph.D. academic degree.
4. Statement whether the University of Wroclaw will be the primary place of work in the case of winning the competition (download Workplace Statement).
5. Declaration of the discipline in which the candidate will conduct research and in the case of people conducting research in more than one discipline the percentage of their involvement in each of these disciplines (download Declaration of scientific discipline).
6. Self-presentation (information about scientific, organizational, and other achievements).
7. List scientific publications in the last ten years.
8. Electronic versions of the two most important publications that the candidate considers representative of his or her scientific achievements or an explanation of the lack of them.
9. Application for employment addressed to HM Rector.
10. Declaration – article 113 the Law on Higher Education and Science (download Declaration – Article 113).

If you provide us with data voluntarily in your application other than what is necessary for you to participate in the recruitment procedure, we ask for your consent to their processing, which may read:

– in the case of ordinary data: ‘I consent to the processing of my personal data contained in (e.g. CV, cover letter or other attached documents) by the University of Wrocław in the recruitment process for the position…’

– for special categories of data: ‘I consent to the processing of the special categories of my data referred to in Article 9(1) of the GDPR contained in (e.g. CV, motivation letter or other attached documents) by the University of Wroclaw in the recruitment process for the position…’’

All the documents should be send only in an electronic form to the following address: praca@uwr.edu.pl with the subject of the message: “assistant professor.89.2025.ZGLK.IKul.WNHP.AH“.

All submitted documents must be signed.

Additional information

1. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to contact only selected candidates.
2. Selected candidates may be invited for an interview.
3. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.
4. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to annul the competition.
5. The University of Wrocław does not provide housing.

Information clause for persons participating in the recruitment process