PhD-student in Healthcare improvements

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Healthcare!
Are you ready to be at the forefront of designing the healthcare landscape of tomorrow? We are seeking a highly motivated and innovative PhD student to contribute to groundbreaking research in healthcare improvements.

Project description
Healthcare is undergoing a transformation, and the future is home-centric. An aging population, coupled with complex health challenges, demands a shift in how we approach healthcare. This is where you come in. New technical solutions enable a more flexible healthcare, wherever and whenever we need. Some examples are digital consultations, mobile healthcare services, self-monitoring in the home, andthe development of both medical technology and digital health.

A shift from hospital care to healthcare at home means that resources can be used better, for the benefit of more people – a more sustainable healthcare system is created – while giving the individual greater opportunity to influence their own illness, care and health. But change also requires both technical and organizational development. At Chalmers, the Area of Advance Health Engineering supports the initiative Hospitals at home that is partly based on a number of ongoing projects at various departments at Chalmers, the project underlying this PhD study will also be parts of this initiative.

Your PhD journey will be closely tied to the research project "Developing hospital care at home: A systems innovation approach to overcome systemic barriers and promote implementation of medical technology solutions". Through multiple case studies framed within a systemic innovation perspective, the project will enhance understanding and capacity to promote a transition towards improved home healthcare. The outcomes will benefit patients, healthcare professionals, and contribute to sustainability through the dissemination of experiences and results.

The focus for the PhD project is contributing to the overall project goal by collaboratively follow, assess and contribute to the improvements of a number of cases in Region Västra Götaland with a focus on how value-creation in healthcare services change when hospital care moves to homes and how various actors involved in the value-creation are affected. Moreover, we envision an action-oriented approach where the research also intends to investigate, suggest and develop necessary alterations and/or additions in working methods, competences, and organization. In practice this means that the research activities will include: conducting interviews and field observations, organizing workshops, developing interventions, and conducting in-depth literature studies.

Information about the division and the department 
The PhD position is placed at the Department of Technology Management and Economics (TME). The research at the division where the position is placed focuses on organizing and managing innovation and on the management, design, delivery and improvement of services in large, established organizations. The research is undertaken in collaboration with both private and public organizations, and it focuses on challenges and opportunities that these organizations are facing. These challenges call for change and development of ways of working and organizational redesign.

The specific field of this position is Quality Management; in established organizations, private as well as public, there is a need for continuous improvement to improve the utilization of existing resources as well as to better satisfy stakeholders' needs. Quality management with the principles of customer focus, continuous improvement and stakeholder involvement as well as its supportive practices and tools is the focus in this research area. In addition, the research project is also related to other fields like implementation, digital transformations, and system innovations.

Excited about the opportunity to be a catalyst for change in healthcare? Submit your application and join us in pushing the boundaries of healthcare possibilities!

Major responsibilities
The main responsibility of a PhD student is to pursue doctoral studies in relation to a specific research topic. This includes two main components: doctoral courses and independent research (under supervision). The latter includes literature studies, research design and planning, empirical studies and communication of results in writing and orally at seminars and conferences. For this position, interaction and communication with the various actors in the healthcare sector will be an important part of the work. The PhD student is expected to contribute to writing a number of scientific articles, based on the results of the research, which will be included in the final PhD-thesis.

The position also includes teaching at the undergraduate or master's level or performing other departmental duties corresponding to a maximum of 20 percent of the working hours.

More information about the Graduate school can be found here:
https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/tme/research/doctoral-studies/Pages/default.aspx

For more information about qualifications, what we offer and the application procedure, please visit Chalmers Web page. See link: PhD-student in Healthcare improvements