 
General policy Visiting Scholar appointments at Scancor/Stanford are made in support of a general policy of strengthening the Scandinavian organizational research community without regard to disciplinary or national boundaries. Visitors are expected to be active participants at Scancor, and engaged in on-going research. The visiting scholar appointment is a residential fellowship and visitors are expected to be in residence at Scancor throughout their stay. Visiting Scholar appointments Qualified researchers from Scandinavia may apply for Stanford Visiting Scholar appointments through Scancor. These appointments provide access to Stanford libraries and other facilities and (with permission of the instructor) to seminars. They do not provide monetary perquisites, nor do they qualify the Visiting Scholar as either an employee or a faculty member at Stanford. The maximum length of a Visiting Scholar appointment is 12 months. Most are for shorter periods.  Scancor appointments An organizational researcher (Visiting Scholar) may be associated with Scancor in either of two ways: (1) As a Scancor Scholar. A Scancor Scholar has access to regular Scancor seminars and the research community and is provided limited office support. The appointment provides a desk in a two-person office. (2) As an Affiliated Scholar. An Affiliated Scholar has access to seminars and the research community. This appointment does not provide office or desk space. Both Scancor Scholars and Affiliated Scholars are expected to participate in a weekly research seminar at Scancor. The seminar also attracts students and faculty from the organizations community here at Stanford. The typical weekly reading is a finished research paper by a seminar member.
Selection procedures Scancor appointments are made by the Director of Scancor at Stanford with the advice of members of the Scancor Board of Directors. Persons wishing to apply for such appointments are urged to send an application to a Board member in time for the deadlines listed below. A duplicate copy of all applications should be sent to Woody Powell, Director of Scancor-Stanford. All applications must be reviewed by a Scancor Board member from the country involved before any decision will be made. The application should include a curriculum vita, summary self-description of the applicant including statement of goals and motivation to visit Scancor, and an example of writing in English (e.g., paper, article, chapter). Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows should ask that the chair of their dissertation committee send a letter of reference.
Current Board members are
Susse Georg, Copenhagen Business School sg.ioa@cbs.dk
Raimo Lovio, Helsinki School of Economics Raimo.Lovio@hse.fi
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Rokkan Senteret haldor.byrkjeflot@rokkan.uib.no
Walter W. Powell, Stanford University woodyp@stanford.edu
Runólfur Smári Steinþórsson, University of Iceland rsmari@hi.is
Maureen McKelvey, University of Gothenburg. maureen.mckelvey@handels.gu.se/>
Deadlines: Applications can be made at any time. However, normally no commitments for desk space at Scancor can be made sooner than about nine months before the start of the visit. More precisely, the following schedule is followed for decisions:
For visits beginning: January - May 2009
Application deadline: April 1, 2008
Decisions about: May 1, 2008
For visits beginning: June - August 2009*
Application deadline: September 1, 2008
Decisions about: October 1, 2008
For visits beginning: Sept to December, 2009
Application deadline: December 1, 2008
Decisions about: January 1, 2009
* Decisions made October 1 for the June - August time period will be restricted to scholars who apply specifically for the summer period, not scholars who are applying for the following academic year and arriving during the summer. Those scholars will be part of the September - December applicant pool and the decisions will be made in the beginning of January.
Selection policies Selection is based on a judgment of the likely contribution that a stay at Scancor will make to the production of high quality research. This judgment is based primarily on the proven quality and relevance of the research abilities and program of the person applying. Strong preference is given to scholars who are demonstrably and primarily students of organizations. Scholars with other specialties who wish to be Visiting Scholars at Stanford are urged to apply to the relevant department or school, rather than to Scancor.
In addition, we use the following criteria to guide our decisions:
1) has the applicant already spent time at Scancor (we try to take first-time applicants over repeats);
2) does the applicant have on-going or planned collaborations with Stanford faculty;
3) is there a program of study that draws on Stanford courses and seminars;
4) how strong are Stanford resources in the scholar's area of expertise?
We strive for parity in regard to nationality and we look for a viable mix in terms of rank and gender. We also look to see if the proposed research draws on the surrounding Silicon Valley community and its strengths in IT, software and biotechnology. These factors help us select visiting scholars who will be able to make the best use of Stanford for their research.
We always favor applicants who have done their homework in advance and identified classes, seminars, professors, and/or organizations and companies in the San Francisco Bay Area with whom they would anticipate being in contact. We find that those who have done this preparation and identified those with whom they might work, collaborate and/or study tend to integrate themselves into the Stanford community much faster and have a much more productive period as a Scancor visiting scholar.
PhD student applications We strongly recommend that you establish contact with one or more Stanford faculty in your area of interest in advance of applying to Scancor. Your time at Stanford will be necessarily brief and it is useful to develop awareness of relevant faculty in advance. We also advise that student visiting scholars arrive in advance of the start of the academic quarter and not in mid-term. Courses, seminars, and workshops are very difficult to enter once they have begun. Typically, the three terms start as follows: Autumn - 3rd week in September; Winter - 1st or 2nd week of January; Spring - first week of April. You can check the Stanford calendar on the Stanford University website www.stanford.edu if you are interested in the exact day that instruction begins for each term.
For more information write:
Walter W. Powell
Scancor Ceras 532
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-3084, USA |
