Doctoral Student in Informatics

One position, with start from September 1, 2010.Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) serves regional and global needs by educating entrepreneurial leaders and business creators.JIBS shall be recognized as providing innovative leadership in research, education and service to society within entrepreneurship and business renewal.JIBS is one of four schools within Jönköping University and has about 2200 students and 200 employees of which 80 are PhD students.The doctoral program in Informatics at the Jönköping International Business School seeks a proactive and ambitious doctoral student who is interested in a dynamic, international research environment. We seek a PhD student with focus on e-health who has the ambition to pursue an international career in academia or industry, and who wishes to combine a high level of scholarship with research that is relevant to practice.WORKING TASKS / QUALIFICATIONS As a PhD student, working full-time, at least 70 per cent of your time is devoted to your doctoral research.Doctoral research includes coursework and writing a doctoral thesis.The remaining time is allocated to teaching and administrative tasks.This position is related to an international research project - Bridging the Gap ( http://www.lj.se/index.jsf?nodeId=36205&nodeType=12 ) - and offers an option for collaboration with researchers from different fields.Research issues focus on patients as active co-creators, co-producers, and co-evaluators of health services. The applicant should have a genuine interest in the intersection of information systems, organization and management.The research will be conducted in collaboration with both several researchers as well as professionals in different areas in an environment that targets international research excellence.The applicant should hold a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Informatics or related subject areas in for instance Health Economics, Management, Business Administration or Engineering.We seek candidates who have the ambition to pursue an international research career and wish to combine a high level of scholarship with research that is relevant to practice.The applicant needs to be fluent in both written and spoken English.As an international business school, we also highly value skills in other languages, and it is considered an additional qualification for candidates to have an international outlook as well as prior teaching and/or industry experience. APPLICATION Please submit, in 4 copies: your letter of application with a personal description of yourself, a letter of intent (your motivation for enrolling in the doctoral program), a CV, attested documents (transcript, diploma, evidence of prior teaching and/or industry experience), a copy of your Bachelor's and Master's Thesis and other publications as well as the names and phone numbers to at least two references to the address below: Jönköping International Business School Att.Registrar P.O.Box 1026 SE-551 11 Jönköping Sweden The deadline for applying is April 12, 2010.E-mail applications will not be accepted.