Researcher in economic history

Lund University School of Economics and Management is one of eight faculties within Lund University. More than 4 000 students and 450 researchers teachers and other staff are engaged here in training and research in economic history business administration business law informatics economics statistics and research policy.

Lund University School of Economics and Management is accredited by the three largest and most influential accreditation institutes for business schools: EQUIS AMBA and AACSB. Only just over 100 business schools in the world have achieved this prestigious Triple Crown accreditation.

The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department with around 70 employees including researchers teachers technical and administrative staff and doctoral students. The department has a large doctoral training programme and coordinates three international masters programmes. It has a well-established reputation for its broad research focused on long-term processes where economic theory and quantitative methods are important methodological tools. Strong research areas at the department include economic growth and structural transformation innovation energy and sustainability development economics and economic demography as well as financial history education and labour markets. More information is available on the departments website.

Subject area and duties

The subject area is economic history.

The duties consist primarily of research but also include teaching and certain administrative tasks. The position is tied to a project that examines women inventors in Sweden and France from the establishment of the modern patent systems to 1930. The project builds a database linking patent records to information from civil registers and census data and analyses how social background institutional conditions and life-course events such as marriage childbearing and widowhood shaped womens patenting over the life course.

Requirements

• A completed PhD in economic history and
• Demonstrated teaching expertise.

Merits / Desirable qualifications

• Publications in journals or with book publishers that use an international peer-review system
• Publications within the projects research area
• Training in higher education teaching and learning
• Experience researching innovation and patenting in historical perspective
• Documented ability to work in Python
• Experience with machine-learning methods for record linkage and text analysis
• Documented experience with machine-learning methods for image-to-text transcription of historical source material
• Fluency in Swedish and French

Assessment criteria

The School of Economics and Management seeks to maintain a balance between research and teaching in all the assessment of applicants equal weight will therefore be given to scientific and teaching expertise. Administrative ability will also be taken into account.

In the overall assessment of scientific expertise publications in journals or with book publishers that use an international peer-review system are considered a strong merit. Publications within the projects research area are also considered meritorious.

Consideration will be given to how the applicant through their experience and expertise can be assessed as complementing and strengthening the departments research and teaching.

In the assessment of scientific expertise particular weight will be given to:

• The quality and scope of the scientific output
• Publications in international peer-reviewed contexts
• Relevance to the projects research area

In the assessment of teaching expertise particular weight will be given to:

• Documented teaching experience and expertise
• Experience teaching within a relevant subject area
• Ability to plan deliver and develop teaching

In addition the following will be taken into account:

• Administrative ability
• Ability to contribute to and collaborate within the departments activities

Terms and conditions

The position is a fixed-term special appointment at 100 % of full-time starting

Application

The application must include:

1. A cover letter
2. CV and list of publications
3. A description of teaching and research qualifications maximum three pages
4. One selected paper (working paper or publication as a link or PDF)
5. Degree certificate(s) etc.

Applicants are encouraged to provide the names and contact details of up to two referees but letters of recommendation will not be considered as part of the application.