Senior Researcher in Social Gerontology - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Division
Aging Research Center (ARC), an interdisciplinary research center with focus on older people and aging in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, is now opening for a permanent full time position as Senior Researcher.

The successful candidate will be working in the Social Gerontology research group using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from interview studies and registers to study aging and older people’s health and living conditions. Currently, we are working with multiple scientific questions on topics such as:

• older people’s health
• health trends and health- and social care at population level;
• how early living conditions and habits, both in childhood and adulthood, are associated with health later in life and multiple aspects of inequalities at group level.

These areas are often pursued addressing equality issues.

Duties
The Senior Researcher will participate in developing the research group’s work on social aspects of aging and the health and living conditions of older people. A special focus is on health inequalities, from both a life-course and a population perspective. Employment as Senior Researcher involves quantitative research in the areas described above, and responsibility for courses, teaching and supervising at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University.

Entry requirements/Qualifications
To be employed as a Senior Researcher, the candidate must demonstrate both scientific and pedagogical competence. The applicant must have a doctoral degree and obtained a docentur or corresponding level of scientific competence; have an educational background in Social Sciences or Public Health; and extended competence in research on social inequalities in aging. Candidates should have documented experience of advanced statistical analyses of larger interview studies. 
The candidate is an independent researcher with a good track record of publication in international journals within the field of Social Gerontology. The candidate is well integrated in the international research community in social gerontology.

The candidate we seek has good communication skills, and demonstrates good knowledge of both Swedish and English. Collaboration and participation in activities outside academia—such as writing reports and undertaking special (e.g., governmental) investigations—are meritorious.

The applicant has good pedagogical competence, experience of course planning and examination, and supervision of students.

Assessment criteria
Merits will be given the following weight in the assessment process: scientific competence (3); pedagogical competence (2); leadership, development, and collaborative competence (1).

Application process
An application must contain the following documents in English curriculum vitae, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s qualifications portfolio (http://ki.se/qualificationsportfolio).

The applicants will be reviewed by an external reviewer.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi/My network recruitment system.  

At Karolinska Institutet a 6-month trial period is required for all permanent appointments.