项目介绍

2025年3月7日

Job description

The main task is to undertake research. Teaching, supervision and administration could be included depending on candidate’s competence and preferences. Higher Education Organization Studies (HEOS) is an interdisciplinary group studying the preconditions for education and learning as well as other academic activities. The topics include but are not limited to higher education and research policy development and implementation; institutional governance; organizational change, identity and culture; academic leadership, management and work; higher education institutions’ relations to state, society and external stakeholders. Special attention is paid to higher technical education. The advertised position will be linked to ongoing projects in one of these areas. More information (choose English in upper right corner on the page): HEOS – Higher Education Organization Studies | KTH

As a postdoc at the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences, you will be part of a world leading research environment focusing on learning in technology and science at all educational levels, from pre- school to higher education and life-long learning in working life. Our units undertake research within learning in STEM, Digital Learning, Management and Global Competence. More information: www.kth. se/learning/Research areas.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Be a part of a nationally leading and internationally established research group with higher education as study object, with particular focus on technology and engineering education.
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

Read more about what it’s like to work at KTH and our benefits.

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• We prefer that you have research expertise as well as ability to apply qualitative and quantitative methods
• Experience from working with social science and educational science theories and concepts 
• As a person you have teaching abilities, collaborative abilities and ability to perform work independently.
• We also prefer that you have awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

Trade union representatives

Contact information totrade union representatives.

To apply for the position

Log into KTH’s recruitment system to apply for this position. You are responsible for ensuring that your application is complete according to the instructions in the ad.

The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Max two pages long.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, three years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

For information about processing of personal data in the recruitment process.

It may be the case that a position at KTH is classified as a security-sensitive role in accordance with the Protective Security Act (2018:585). If this applies to the specific position, a security clearance will be conducted for the applicant in accordance with the same law with the applicant’s consent. In such cases, a prerequisite for employment is that the applicant is approved following the security clearance.