At least two Postdoctoral Fellows in Social resilience - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

We are looking for at least 2 postdoc researchers with excellent research skills and a strong wish to contribute to the Faculty of Social Sciences’s initiative for social resilience research.

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/research-and-education/research/initiative-social-resilience-research

Duties

The position involves individual research (80%) and teaching (20%). The successful candidates shall contribute to the faculty’s inter-disciplinary initiative for social resilience research by actively organizing and participating in seminars and other activities.

Qualifications and assessment

To be appointed as a postdoc requires a PhD in any of the following research subjects offered at the Faculty of Social Sciences: Communication and Media Studies, Gender Studies, Human Ecology, Human or Economic Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Service Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Work, Sociology, Sociology of Law, or Sustainability Science. The PhD is to have been obtained within the past three (3) years at the time of the application deadline (exceptions can be made only under special circumstances). The PhD requirement must be fulfilled at the time of hiring.

The applicant should indicate a preferred host-department in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

The basis for assessment is the ability to develop and conduct high quality research, as well as teaching skills.

Research expertise is primarily considered. The applicant must be able to demonstrate research expertise through the quality of their doctoral thesis and other publications. The applicant is to conduct research that addresses social resilience and that clearly relates to the research at the preferred host-department.

A research plan (maximum 4 pages) should be submitted with the application. The research plan should define a research topic that deals with social resilience, paying particular attention to research design and methods development. The concept of social resilience can be broadly understood as the capability of communities or societies to withstand, handle and re-emerge from episodic or longer-term instability brought on by social, political, ecological or economic transformations.  The research plan should detail how the concept of social resilience will be applied in the research that the applicant intends to pursue, how the proposed project advances research design and methods development, and how it relates to the research at the preferred host-department.

The applications are assessed with regard to the following criteria: the quality of the applicant’s research output, and its link to the department’s research profile; the relevance and strength of the research plan in relation to the concept of social resilience , other qualifications proving the applicant’s research skills; teaching expertise within the faculty’s educational profile.

Application

The application must include the following:

1. An explicit statement of a preferred host-department at the Faculty of Social Sciences.
2. A research plan that details an application of the concept social resilience, shows what research the applicant intends to pursue, how it advances methodological thinking and/or the use of empirical methods, and how it relates to the research at the preferred host-department, maximum 4 pages.
3. CV and copies of PhD degree certificate, or evidence that a Ph D degree certificate will be available by September 1, 2022.
4. List of publications.
5. Up to three (3) representative publications.
6. Contact information for three (3) references.

Applications that do not include all of items 1-6, above, will not be considered.

Terms

A postdoc fellowship is a career development position specialising in research, and is to be an initial step in the applicant’s career.

This is a full-time, temporary position for three years. It is regulated in the collective agreement “Avtal om tidsbegränsad anställning som postdoktor” - https://www.arbetsgivarverket.se/globalassets/avtal-skrifter/centralaavtal/avtal-om-tidsbegransad-anstallning-som-postdoktor-2021-11-19.pdf.

Please note that a person who has previously been employed as a postdoc at Lund University for more than a year cannot be employed as a postdoc again within the same or similar subject at the University.

The University applies individually set salaries. Please state the salary requested in your application.

The application must be received by April 30 2022 at the latest. First day of employment, September 1, 2022, or by agreement.