 
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. We are most interested in scholars who will contribute to a lively, engaged organizations community. 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 (only 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. Many 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 the weekly research seminars at Scancor. The Monday seminar also attracts students and faculty from the organizations community here at Stanford, and the informal seminar provides a setting for scholars to present work-in-progress to members of the Scancor community.
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 must send an application to a Board member, according to the deadlines listed below. A duplicate copy of all applications should be sent to Mitchell Stevens, Director of Scancor-Stanford and Annette Eldredge, eldredge@stanford.edu. 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 signed letter of reference.
Current Board members are
Susse Georg, Copenhagen Business School sg.ioa@cbs.dk
Liisa Välikangas, Helsinki School of Economics liisa.valikangas@hse.fi
Haldor Byrkjeflot, Rokkan Senteret haldor.byrkjeflot@rokkan.uib.no
Mitchell L. Stevens, Stanford University mitchell.stevens@stanford.edu
Runólfur Smári Steinþórsson, University of Iceland rsmari@hi.is
Maureen McKelvey, University of Gothenburg. maureen.mckelvey@handels.gu.se/>
For visits beginning: January - May 2011
Application deadline: April 1, 2010
Decisions about: May 1, 2010
For visits beginning: June - August 2011*
Application deadline: September 1, 2010
Decisions about: October 1, 2010
For visits beginning: Sept to December, 2011
Application deadline: December 1, 2010
Decisions about: January 1, 2011
* Decisions made October 1 for the June - August time period will be restricted to scholars who apply specifically for the summer period and is not for scholars 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 quality and relevance of the research abilities of the person applying. We give preference to established researchers over those starting out, and urge junior scholars to consider Scancor when their research questions are well developed. We are particularly interested in applications from scholars who have made plans to pursue research topics or collaborations that could not be pursued in their home countries.
In addition, we use the following criteria to guide our decisions:
1) does the applicant have on-going or planned collaborations with Stanford faculty;
2) is there a program of study that draws on Stanford courses and seminars;
3) how strong are Stanford resources in the scholar's area of expertise?
4) has the applicant already spent time at Scancor
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.
For graduate student applicants, 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 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 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. |
