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Your responsibilities

Design aims to make alternative futures possible through systematic, experimental, human-centered, aesthetic, and critical exploration. The subject area of Design is interdisciplinary, utilizing perspectives and methods from technical/natural sciences, social sciences/humanities, and artistic fields.

As a University Lecturer in Design, you will teach at both undergraduate and advanced levels in Swedish and English, and supervise students within Linköping University's various design-oriented programs. Teaching focuses primarily on participatory design, service design, and interaction design. The role includes course design and course responsibility.

Design research encompasses a range of activities, from scientific investigations to experimentation, often in the form of innovative combinations driven by a conscious need to deepen the understanding of what design is and how design could develop in the future. Design research is highly international and is therefore conducted in both Swedish and English.

This position is located at the Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HCS) within the Division of Information Systems and Digital Media (IDA), and in the research group Interaction and Service Design (IxS). The research group conducts design research with a focus on services and interaction. Over the last 20 years, we have worked in various parts of the public sector, and for the past few years, we have participated in knowledge development at the intersection of AI and design, as well as in the intersection of policy development and design. The department's research and teaching are directed towards studying and improving the interaction between individuals, computer systems, and information resources. The human being and their capabilities serve as both a starting point and a goal. Key research areas include service design, human-computer interaction, knowledge technology, language technology, geographic information systems, computer-supported education/training, information management, the introduction of new technology in organizations, and security in complex systems. Linköping University is one of Sweden's leading universities for design research and education, and is world-leading in service design research, among other areas.

The successful candidate is active in the research community, participates in departmental activities such as seminars and workshops, engages in research projects, communicates results through scientific publications, and contributes to attracting external research funding. You will actively contribute to the university's development work.

Collaboration is an integrated part of the university's research and educational mission. Collaboration in education involves planning, organizing, and implementing high-quality education in interaction with actors from the surrounding society. Collaboration in research involves disseminating, making available, and utilizing research.

The position may also involve administrative duties, such as educational administration and research administration. We also welcome your participation in and interest in leadership roles.

Your qualifications

We are looking for you who have a PhD or equivalent scientific competence, and have demonstrated pedagogical skill, or other professional competence that is significant given the subject content and tasks of the position.

For this position, equal weight will primarily be given to scientific and pedagogical competence, with other competencies assessed as equivalent to each other.

Regarding pedagogical competence, the following will be assessed:

• The requirement for the position is documented pedagogical competence, demonstrated through teaching and supervision in design at undergraduate and advanced levels.
• Particularly meritorious for the position is pedagogical competence in the intersection of design and service contexts.
• Meritorious for the position is completed courses in higher education pedagogy, or having acquired equivalent knowledge in other ways.

Regarding scientific competence, the following will be assessed:

• The requirement for the position is documented scientific competence and documented experience of research in two of the following sub-areas:

       - design in the form of participatory design, co-design, and/or practice-based work

       - service in the form of service logics and/or service organization

       - human-computer interaction in the form of interaction design and/or UX

• Particularly meritorious is having scientific competence in all three sub-areas.
• Meritorious for the position is:
  • having experience in successfully planning, applying for, and obtaining research funding from external funders.
  • having a research direction that strengthens and complements the research mentioned in the three areas above in combination with the research at the department (see HCS (https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ida/hcs)). Applicants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with these areas and attach a research plan for the first two years in relation to this to their application.
  • documented competence in collaboration within education and research.

Other competencies to be assessed for this position are administrative competence, leadership ability, and/or technical competence.

• The requirement for the position is experience from practice-based research.
• Meritorious for the position is:
  • documented experience of administrative competence in, for example, leadership roles.
  • documented ability to collaborate with the surrounding society and to communicate research and development to a broader public.

Since teaching and/or research takes place in Swedish and English, you must demonstrate the ability to teach and/or conduct research in English. It is desirable that you can teach and/or conduct research in Swedish within two years.

About the position

Permanent position, full-time. Start date by agreement.

Application

Apply by 2026-08-30.