Postdoctoral Appointment in Design with a Specialisation in Textile Design

The Swedish School of Textiles at the Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business is a hub for supplying the knowledge needs of the textile and fashion sector. In addition to education at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels, there are doctoral education programmes in Textiles and Fashion. The research environment is characterised by close collaboration with the industry and multidisciplinary collaboration in the fields of artistic and technical design, textile technology, and management.

Research in design in the field of textiles and fashion means artistic design research with a strong focus on, both theoretically and practically, deepening understanding of the interplay between analysis and synthesis in the design process as a basis for developing design methodology, techniques, and programmes. The research approach is mainly experimental and focused on design in which the development of methodology, programs, and techniques relies on critical experimental artistic work.

This Postdoctoral Appointment deals with design research within the research project Beyond e-textiles: Nordic network on smart light-conversion textiles beyond electric circuits from the Nordic Programme for Interdisciplinary Research - NordForsk and has a focus on smart materials in textile design through experimental development of design methodology based on textile materials and processes. Read more about the research project.

Job description

You will work with research in design within the research programmes Beyond e-textiles, Smart Textiles and ArcIntex with a focus on smart textiles in textile design through the development of materials, design methodology, design variables, and textile prototypes. Your duties include conducting research in collaboration with international researchers in accordance with the Beyond e-textiles research programmes. Your practical work tasks include the experimental development of materials, design methodology, and design variables with consequences for smart textile materials and products, development, as well as publication and communication of artistic results in relevant channels. The work tasks also include some teaching, as well as supervision of students at the Master’s level corresponding to a maximum of 20% of full-time. The position is with the Department of Design with Head of Department Clemens Thornquist as immediate manager. The Beyond e-textiles project is led by Delia Dumitrescu at the University of Borås, whom you will work closely with and who will be your artistic and scientific leader for the research conducted in the project.

Qualifications

For detailed information about the qualifications required for the employment, please see the ad on the university's website: https://www.hb.se/en/about-ub/work-at-ub/job-vacancies/

Type of employment: Fixed-term employment in a Postdoctoral Appointment for two years with the possibility of extension.
Employment rate: 100%
Start date: As soon as possible
Position location: Borås, Sweden
Reference number: PA 2022/142

Contact 

Information about the position can be provided by Head of Department Clemens Thornquist via email clemens.thornquist@hb.se or phone +46(0)33-435 4366 and Professor Delia Dumitrescu via email delia.dumitrescu@hb.se or phone +46(0)33-435 4515. Trade union representatives are Magnus Sirhed, OFR-ST and Martin Behre, Saco-S; they can be reached via the university’s switchboard at +46(0)33-435 40 00.

Application 
You can apply for the position via our website by clicking on “Apply.”

Write clearly in your application which position you are applying for and include the applicable reference number.  The following documents must be attached to your application:


• Personal letter.
• CV (overview list of education and work experience in chronological order) with reference contact information and desired salary
• Portfolio (account of research publications and pedagogical work and documentation of teaching skills, including self-evaluation). See our Merit Portfolio Template. for guidance.
• Certificates/grades (including proof of completed doctoral degree) and other accomplishments that you would like taken into consideration.

Contact HR if you have artistic or scientific publications that cannot be attached electronically directly in the application. The publications must be received by the university no later than one week after the application deadline. After the application deadline, no additions can be made electronically.

Please submit your application at the latest by 2022-07-21.

The University of Borås strives for even gender distribution among employees and values diversity.

According to the regulations of the National Archives, we must archive application documents, excluding publications, for two years after the appointment decision has been finalised.

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