Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science

Visiting Professor Guide


Goal
Each year NORSLIS will engage a visiting professor (VP) for a period of 3-4 weeks at 1-2 relevant locations. The VP should be a leading international scholar that can promote research frameworks and encourage local research groups. A VP is not expected to organize doctoral courses, although he or she may participate in them. There should be a possiblity for both senior researchers and students to be able to discuss with the VP. This can be done both in the form of seminars and as individual discussions/consultations. All these things should be arranged in a quite informal and flexible way.

Budget for travel and accomodation
Travel and accommodation costs should not exceed 22.000NOK. The main responsible person for the VP should try to find the cheapest possible and practical alternatives. Travel costs will be reimbursed according to the NORSLIS instructions.

Budget for honoraries
The VP will be paid a honorary corresponding to about 4 week full time work not exceeding 40.000NOK including daily allowances. When social costs etc. are included, the actual cost for NORSLIS is 60.000NOK. The honorary will be paid using forms (one for honorary and one for tax reduction) that the research school leader will send to the VP to fill in and return.

If a NORSLIS visiting professor teaches, honoraries as well as costs for travel and accommodation will not be paid using the budget for the course/workshop, but from the visiting professor budget.

Questions regarding budget issues and other practical considerations should be addressed to the research school leader. Organizers are also recommended to make use of earlier experiences by asking other organizers in the NORSLIS network and to study their previous activities.

Layout
There must be one main responsible person for the VP. At each stop there must be one local organizer, who takes care of the practical details: announcing the VP, making hotel reservations, providing space for the seminars and consultations. When preparing the announcement of the VP have a look at the announcement for 2004-Visiting professor.

Students, and others, who wish to meet with the VP are kindly asked to contact the local organizer. Ph.D. students under the NORSLIS programme may apply for travel support to meet with the VP from the NORSLIS Board.

Activity report
The main responsible person must send an activity report of the VP to the research school leader. The details of what should go into the report is specified in a VP activity reporting form to be filled in and submitted to the research school leader.