Job type

• Assistant Professor level

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - Human geography

Wages

• Annual Salary : 4 million yen ~ 7 million yen

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor

  Applicants must have received specialized training in Human Geography and must hold a doctoral degree or expect to obtain one by the time of appointment.

• Description

  1. Applicants must have sufficient proficiency in Japanese to teach courses and carry out administrative responsibilities.
  2. Proactive in conducting cutting-edge interdisciplinary research that bridges the humanities and natural sciences.
  3. Experience or expertise in GIS-based research is highly desirable.

Employment Type

• Regular employee

Contract period

• Nontenured - Non-tenure track

  The appointment is for a total of 5 years (initially 3 years, with the possibility of an additional 2 years following a review).
  There is potential for transitioning to a tenure-track position.

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 305-8571 Ibaraki Tsukuba, Tennoudai 1-1-1

Compensation

• Various systems

  Transportation expenses : available

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

• Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace

  Smoking is prohibited on the University of Tsukuba campus.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2026/04/01

Starting date : 2026/04/01

• Job content supplemental explanation

  The appointment is expected to commence as early as possible following April 1, 2026.

Application period

• 2025/06/20~2025/08/05 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  1. Curriculum Vitae.
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  2. Research Achievement Record: Please list 3 to 5 research achievements in the relevant research field for evaluation. As a general rule, these achievements should have been published within the past five years. You may include your doctoral dissertation as one of the listed achievements. If you do not have five achievements published within the past five years, you may add earlier achievements (published more than five years ago) so that the total number of listed achievements is up to five.

  Other online application forms
  3. Achievement Record in the Areas of Education, Technical Skills, and Practical Work.
  4. Education and Research Plan and Future Prospects.
  5. PDF files of the three to five main publications listed in document no. 2. For accepted but not yet published papers or books, you may upload the proofs or submitted manuscript, provided that you also include the letter of acceptance from the publisher or editor.
  6. Complete Research Achievement Record: Peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, non-reviewed articles (invited papers), and peer-reviewed academic papers (bulletins). Other achievements should be listed on a separate sheet. Include any grants, awards, or external funding received as a principal investigator.
  7. Self-Declaration of Specific Categories.
  8. Applicant’s email address.
  9. Applicants residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) must also submit a ‘Consent to Processing and Extraterritorial Transfer of Personal Data under GDPR’ form, in addition to the above documents.
  
  Please upload nos. 1–7 and 9 to the “Documents other than JREC-IN Forms.” Because only up to five files can be attached, please combine nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 into a single file. Nos. 5 and 9 should be separate files. It is not necessary to complete and attach the “Application Form(JREC-IN Form)”and “Achievement and Activities list(JREC-IN Form)”.
  
  Download nos. 1–4, 6–7, and 9 from the following links at https://www.jinsha.tsukuba.ac.jp/jobs/application-documents : “Application documents (English),” “Consent under GDPR,” and “Self-Declaration on Specific Categories.”
  

  Other Mailing Documents
  Any books (monographs) included in the major achievements that you wish to submit by mail, please send to the address below. Submitted books will not be returned unless a self-addressed and stamped envelope is enclosed in your package.

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

• Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

  305-8571 Ibaraki Tsukuba, Tennoudai 1-1-1
  Office: Subprogram in History and Anthropology, Master's and Doctoral Program in Humanities, University of Tsukuba　

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  Following the initial screening process, interviews will be conducted online.

• Notification of result

  Applicants who pass the document screening will be contacted by e-mail regarding the interview schedule.

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