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Criteria for admittance to WASS
To be recognised as a (candidate/associate) fellow the following conditions will be assessed.

Criteria for postdocs:

  • research has been accepted by WASS

Criteria for candidate fellowship:

  • PhD degree
  • assessment of curriculum vitae and publication list
  • membership limited to a duration of 3 years

Criteria for fellowship 
The Board of WASS has established the criteria for becoming fellow of Wageningen School of Social Sciences. These criteria have become valid for new applications for fellowship from 1/1/2012. For current fellows the new criteria will become valid  after the 2012 midterm assessment,  thus from 1/1/2013. In the fellow screening for the midterm assessment in 2012, current fellows will be screened on the new and the ‘old’ WASS criteria.  

1.       Tenure Track publication criteria at the entrance level of UD2 (see below)
2.       PhD supervision
3.       Contributions to the scientific process, in at least two of the following four areas:

  • a. Review of papers/manuscripts and proposals
  • b. (co)editor of special issues of journals or scientific edited volumes, or writing book reviews in scientific journals;
  • c. Active membership of scientific committees (for instance under WASS, SSG, WUR, NWO, KNAW, EU, international networks etc.)
  • d. Contribution to PhD education of WASS or other schools
    The Board has also decided that (new) WASS fellows that do not fulfil these criteria can become or remain WASS fellow if they ‘compensate’ one of the existing criteria by ‘outperforming’ (far above the average) in at least one of the following areas:

1.     Chapters and book publications with C-rated academic publishing houses
2.       Citations of scientific publications in scientific publications
3.       Specified contributions to societal debates, for instance through:

  • a. popular publications in non-scientific journals
  • b. membership of important societal committees/foundations
  • c. extraordinary media performance with radio/TV/national newspapers
  • d. multiple major lectures for a broad (non-scientific) audience with considerable impact

Rather than quantifying the level of ‘outperformance’ the Board decided to leave decisions on this to the discretionary power of the scientific director, as it used to be under the ‘old’ system.

Publications criteria for UD2 are 24 credits over three years.

 

A

B

C

Scientific refereed articles

6 (=Q1 ISI)

4 (=Q2, 3, 4 ISI)

2 (= non ISI)

Book chapters (see list WASS/SENSE)

4

2

-

Monographs (see list WASS/SENSE)

12

8

-

 

WASS/SENSE list of ranking of  publishing houses: https://portal2.wur.nl/sites/wass/Fellows%20forms%20and%20procedures/WASS%20Sense%20publishers%20ranking%20list%202011.xlsx

Criteria for associate fellowship:

  • senior researcher and/or extraordinary chair with special societal or other specific relevance for WASS.

Researchers who want to be admitted to WASS should send their request to the WASS office.

Application form WASS Fellowship

  
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