The exceptions mainly concern leading positions at the university (for example dean, who is appointed by the university board), as well as professors and dosent professors (who are appointed by a separate committee on the recommendation of the head of department).
All cases are decided by a simple majority.
Employee representatives on the appointments committees are appointed by the employee unions and shall attend to the interests of all applicants to positions, regardless of membership.
Tasks of appointments committees and council
The appointments committee for teaching and research positions handles the following matters:
- Appointments to advertised positions, including externally-funded positions if they have been advertised
- Temporary appointments of more than six months
- Approval of job advertisement texts for teaching and research positions
- Appointment of expert committees
- Exemptions from expert committees
- Extension of a previously advertised vacancy
- Extension of research fellowship periods
- Closure of the appointment process
- Dismissal by the employer.
The appointments council for technical and administrative positions handles the following matters:
- Appointments to advertised vacancies, including externally-funded positions if they have been advertised
- Temporary appointments of more than six months
- Extension of a previously advertised vacancy
- Dismissal by the employer.
Meetings
The appointment committee for teaching and research positions and the appointment council for technical and administrative positions usually meet twice a month.
Members of Appointment committee for appointment of managers
- Chair: Laurence Habib, dean. Deputies: vice deans
- Employee in teaching and research position on the faculty board: Will be appointed among the faculty board
- Employee in technical and administrative position on the faculty board: Nebojsa Rijic. Deputy: Kersti Fosse Blålid
- External member on the faculty board: Saira Basit. Deputy will be appointed among the faculty board
- Student member: Kristian-Manuel Villasis Duong. Deputy: Rita Therese Slette Keilhau
Members of Recommendation committee for appointment of heads of departments and programme coordinators
- Chair: The closest manager for the position in question
- Faculty director: Målfrid Hoaas. Deputy: Jørund Støre Bergrem
- Employee in teaching and research position on the faculty board: Will be appointed among the faculty board
- Employee representatives: Kyrre Andersen and Christian Nordahl Rolfsen
- Student member: Rita Therese Slette Keilhau. Deputy: Kristian-Manuel Villasis Duong
Members of Appointments committee for teaching and research positions
- Chair: Laurence Habib, dean. Deputies: vice deans
- Faculty director: Målfrid Hoaas. Deputy: Jørund Støre Bergrem
- Head of department: André Brodtkorb. Deputy: Astrid Oust Janbu
- Employee representative: Kyrre Andersen. Deputy: To be appointed
- Employee representative: Christian Nordahl Rolfsen. Deputy: To be appointed
- Student member: Kristian-Manuel Villasis Duong. Deputy: Rita Therese Slette Keilhau
Members of Appointments council for technical and administrative positions
- Chair: Målfrid Hoaas, faculty director. Deputy: Jørund Støre Bergrem
- Head of the section of Academic Affairs and Internationalisation: Jørund Støre Bergrem. Deputy: Sigrun Vedø
- Head of the section of Finance: Hans-Arne Løkken. Deputy: Jostein Kandal Sundet
- Employee representative: Oscar-Torjus Utaaker. Deputies: Tatiana Shipulina, Magne Askerøi Moe and Karlijn Hendrina Maria Hillekens
- Employee representative: Cecilia Roberts. Deputies: Sigrid Wolf and Veslemøy Hollekim Skånlund
- Employee representative in connection with appointments of technical personnel (engineers): Ismail Mohamed Hussein. Deputy: Harald Hofseter. This representative replaces one of the other employee representatives
