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Your responsibilities

As a doctoral student, you will help develop a research project on neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) and mental health issues in children, particularly girls. The focus will be on co-occurring symptoms of NDD and other types of disabilities, for example, symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in conjunction with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). You will be admitted to the doctoral programme in the interdisciplinary subject of Disability and Society.

The work involves developing and conducting an independent research project. The project includes data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and writing scientific articles for international journals. Data collection involves recruiting and contacting children with NDD. The research is conducted interdisciplinarily in close collaboration with researchers within various disciplines.

As a doctoral student, you will devote yourself to your doctoral studies and the research project you are part of. Your work may also include teaching or participation in other departmental duties, up to 20 percent of full-time.

Your qualifications

You have completed a degree at an advanced level within a subject relevant to disability and society, such as psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, or another relevant field, or completed courses totaling at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 credits are at an advanced level within one of these areas, or have otherwise acquired substantially equivalent knowledge.

You must have:

• Good ability to communicate in Swedish and English, both orally and in writing.
• Documented experience or knowledge within NDD, obtained from work, education, research, or similar.

Especially meritorious:

• Documented experience of quantitative data analysis.
• Documented experience or knowledge within mental health, obtained from work, education, research, or similar.
• Documented experience of data collection, for example, administered and analyzed surveys and/or conducted semi-structured interviews.

Meritorious:

• Documented ability to independently formulate and address scientific questions.
• Documented experience of qualitative analysis.
• Documented experience of administering and evaluating psychometric tests.
• Documented experience of applying practices within open science.

The project is conducted in an interdisciplinary research context and in close collaboration with several researchers. Therefore, a good ability to work independently is required, as well as the ability to collaborate constructively in research groups. Furthermore, analytical ability, attention to detail, and a structured working method are required.

The application must include a project plan (max 2 pages) where you have designed a research question and relevant design in line with the call, as well as describing your research interest in relation to NDD and mental health. This is used to assess your ability to address scientific questions.

Your workplace

At the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning (IBL), research as well as undergraduate and graduate education are conducted on issues concerning disability and society. Read more: https://liu.se/organisation/liu/ibl/fusa (https://liu.se/organisation/liu/ibl/fusa)

The research environment includes, among other things, cognitive hearing science, brain imaging, digital work environment, and aging. Several projects use large longitudinal datasets, experimental methods, and advanced statistical modeling to study how cognitive and sensory factors affect health and participation in society.

As a doctoral student, you will be part of an interdisciplinary research environment with collaborations within psychology, neuroscience, hearing research, and disability and society. Read more about our doctoral education in disability and society: https://liu.se/artikel/forskarutbildning-i-funktionsnedsattning-och-samhalle (https://liu.se/artikel/forskarutbildning-i-funktionsnedsattning-och-samhalle).

About the position

Upon commencement of employment, you will be admitted to the doctoral education. Read more about the respective faculty's doctoral education: https://liu.se/forskning/forskarutbildning (https://liu.se/forskning/forskarutbildning)

The employment is fixed-term for normally four years full-time. Extension of employment up to five years occurs based on the extent of teaching and departmental duties. Under special circumstances, further extension may occur. You are initially employed for one year, and thereafter the employment is renewed for up to two years at a time, based on the achieved study plan.

Latest start date: October 1, 2026.

Salary and benefits

Doctoral salaries are regulated based on a locally agreed salary scale. Read more about benefits for employees: https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/formaner (https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/formaner).

Union representatives

Information about union representatives, see: https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/hjalp-for-sokande (https://liu.se/jobba-pa-liu/hjalp-for-sokande).

Application

You apply for this position by clicking the "Apply" button below. Your application must be received by Linköping University no later than June 10, 2026. Applications received after the last application date will not be considered.

We welcome applicants with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, as this enriches and develops our operations. For us, it is obvious to protect everyone's equal value, rights, and opportunities. Read about our work with equal conditions (https://liu.se/artikel/lika-villkor/).

We look forward to receiving your application!

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