Academic expertise is defined as teaching skills and scientific, or artistic, expertise of such quality and at such a level that is relevant to the third-cycle subject area in question. Assessing future docents is an important part of the university’s quality assurance of research and education.
You can find more information about the process of becoming a docent at SLU in the internal governing document, which you can find here: Guidelines for the appointment of docents at SLU.
Docents are appointed in one of the university’s doctoral education subject areas, and the subject should be stated in the application for associate professorship. On this page, you will find information about the doctoral education subjects and general syllabuses at SLU's faculties: Doctoral education subjects and general syllabuses.
Deadline for applications to be appointed docent is 1 March or 15 September every year. Choose one of the links to apply at your faculty.