Data manager, Dept of Economic History, 6 month

Lunds universitet, Ekonomihögskolan, Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.

Lund University School of Economics and Management is one of eight faculties within Lund University. More than 4 000 students and 450 researchers, teachers and other staff are engaged here in training and research in economic history, business administration, business law, informatics, economics, statistics and research policy.

Lund University School of Economics and Management is accredited by the three largest and most influential accreditation institutes for business schools: EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. Only just over 100 business schools in the world have achieved this prestigious Triple Crown accreditation.

The short-time position starts May 1, 2024 at the Department of Economic History (Centre for Economic Demography), Lund University School of Economics and Management. The employment is full time until October 31, 2024.

Subject area and duties

The subject area is Economic Demography.

The Centre for Economic Demography (CED) includes more than 40 scholars active in the fields of economic history, economics, social sciences, and medicine who are involved in research on economic and social issues connected to demography, from modern as well as historical perspectives. CED has a number of large-scale population databases that are used by researchers in different projects. The databases include the Swedish Interdisciplinary Panels (SIP), historical population censuses, and the Scanian Economic-Demographic Databse (SEDD). Some of the databases are physically placed at the MONA system, run by Statistics Sweden, while others are at CEDs own server.

The works tasks include managing the different databases at CED, quality control and documentation, programming in STATA and SQL to some extent. It also includes administration and support to researchers in connection with data extraction and statistical analysis.

Eligibility

To be employed the applicant must have at least a Master’s degree in social sciences, very good skills in data management and programming, primarily in STATA but preferably also in Python and/or SQL, and in producing written documentation. It is required that the applicant has own experience in working with similar data and participating in research. The applicant should have good knowledge of historical and contemporary population registers.

Assessment criteria

In the assessment of the applicant special weight will be given to skills in data management, and programming, as well as knowledge about historical and contemporary population registers. Moreover, the ability to collaborate and interact with researchers at CED will be assessed.

Application

Applications must include:

Cover letter
CV
Description of qualifications in data management and programming, maximum of three pages
One selected paper (publication or working paper, as web link or PDF)
Certificates, etc.

The applicant is encouraged to name a maximum of two persons who can give recommendations, but we do not consider recommendation letters with the application.

Other

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