DOCTORAL STUDENT Business Adm/Psych/W Life Sci

Doctoral study programmes are offered in twenty-six disciplines at Karlstad University.Three of these are business administration, psychology and working life science.Pending the decisions required, Karlstad University invites applications to a doctoral studentship in business administration, psychology and working life science.Many researchers and doctoral students in these disciplines are associated with the multidisciplinary research centre CTF - Service Research Center, which has a staff of fifty-five, including three professors and over twenty doctoral students.Research is focused on three areas: organization and management of service enterprises, service innovation and customer-oriented service.Research is pursued in subareas such as quality development, work environment, market and service orientation, relation marketing, service development and organizational change.The doctoral studentship position will be linked to ongoing service research.CTF's research is relevant to private as well as public organizations. Qualification requirements Applicants must meet the requirements for general and special eligibility.The general eligibility requirement is completed education at Bachelor and Master levels totalling 240 higher education credits.The special eligibility requirements are specified in the respective subject's doctoral curriculum: http://www.kau.se/om-universitetet/visioner-och-strategier/dokument?page_id=98&niva=3&legend=1-48-1- Admission and assessment grounds Candidates are assessed individually and selection is based on their capacity to successfully complete the programme.The successful candidate is expected to start at Karlstad University in January 2009. Application carrying the reference Reg.no.no.FAK1 2009/172, by 27 November 2009 at the latest and addressed to: Karlstad University Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT S-651 88 KARLSTAD SWEDEN