The Department of Thematic Studies was the first in Sweden to offer an academic setting for thematically organised, interdisciplinary, socially relevant research. We combine strong research with undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and courses, often in collaboration with actors outside the university. Our point of departure is a critical, reflective approach, and we seek to develop new ways of understanding established social phenomena, in order to benefit both scientific and social development.
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Duties
As a PhD student you will primarily devote yourself to your research. As a PhD student you are limited to work with education and administration up to 20 percent of full time.

This position will be placed in the field of gender studies in an interdisciplinary research environment. The successful candidate will be expected to work with non-Eurocentric, feminist perspectives on issues of knowledge production, pedagogies, and learning. This can be done by focusing on gender, sexuality, corporality, race, migrations, decoloniality and indigeneity, or a combination of these. Possible empirical fields of study include an analysis of pedagogical models of teaching and learning from feminist, non-occidental position, an analysis of museums or universities as arenas for knowledge production and -distribution, or studies of knowledge production outside of the traditional institutions, such as artistic, social and cultural movements.

The successful applicant will be expected to be able to collaborate well and be a creative and constructive co-worker in an interdisciplinary research environment. The position requires high level writing and speaking skills in English.

Qualifications
Qualified to PhD studentships are only those who are or have been admitted to graduate studies.
To be admitted to graduate studies, the applicant needs to have an advanced degree, have completed a minimum of 240 ECTS, of which at least 60 ECTS are on the advanced level. Furthermore, to be admitted to graduate studies in Gender Studies, the requirement is that at least 90 of the credits are in a subject matter related to that area, including knowledge in gender studies at a minimum of 45 credits.

Documented knowledge within the field of gender studies is a requirement for the position. An education relating to decolonial perspectives on knowledge production, feminist pedagogies, indigenous- and land based knowledge systems, and non-Western cognitive philosophies, or a combination of these, is considered a merit for the position.
Upon application, applicants are expected to present a preliminary research proposal for a PdD thesis project.

Appointment time
The appointment will be until further notice for a maximum of one year at a time. A doctoral student may not be employed during a period exceeding eight years. The total time of appointment must not exceed the equivalent of four years´ full time research training.

Starting date
By agreement

Salary
The salary for PhD students is based on the department’s salary scale.