Senior researcher in insurance medicine - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Division

Sickness absence affects individuals, health care, insurance organizations, employers, and society. In the Division of Insurance Medicine, we conduct research, systematic literature reviews, post graduate training, and networking regarding sickness absence, disability pension, health, and living conditions. We study sickness absence in general, regarding different diagnoses (e.g. psychiatric, musculoskeletal, MS, diabetes, coronary heart disease, breast cancer etc.) and in different occupational groups and life situations. Our studies are based on data from different registers, surveys and interviews. You find more information from our website: https://ki.se/im. We are now looking to recruit one or two senior researchers.

Duties

The senior researcher will work in a project with focus on sustainable working life. The first aim of the project is to construct measures of sustainable working life using nationwide register data about sickness absence, work disability pension, unemployment and other labour market measures. The second aim is to examine predictors of longer working life with register and survey data. Duties include study planning and statistical analyses with register and survey data independently and in collaboration with other researchers in the group as well as writing international scientific articles.

Entry requirements

A person is eligible to be appointed Senior Researcher if he or she has been awarded a Degree of Doctor or has achieved the corresponding scientific competence, as well as documented research after publicly defending his or her doctoral thesis corresponding to qualification as Assistant professor.

The candidate should have:

• Doctoral degree within a relevant scientific field, for example epidemiology, health science, or insurance medicine
• Publications and experience of conducting studies with large register data sets, including the whole study process from planning to analysis and reporting the results

Merits include also:

• Experience of studies in the field of occupational health
• Experience of international collaboration
• High-quality publication record
• Excellent skills in writing scientific articles in English

Bases of assessment
We stress research expertise when assessing applicants.

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 application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.  

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