Senior Lecturer in Crisis Preparedness and Civil Defence

About the role

The Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, within the Department of Building and Environmental Technology at Lund University, is recruiting a Senior Lecturer. The division researches and teaches about how individuals, organisations and societies prevent, prepare for, manage, recover from and adapt to threats, and it aims to strengthen its capacity in crisis preparedness, civil defence and social vulnerability.

Key responsibilities

• Research within the subject area, with a focus on social vulnerability, power, identity and critical perspectives on complex crises.
• Teach in the first, second and third cycles of study.
• Supervise degree projects and doctoral students.
• Seek external research funding and collaborate with industry and wider society.
• Handle administration and strategic work to build collaborations with national and international partners.

Required profile

• A PhD or equivalent research competence or professional expertise in the subject.
• Demonstrated teaching expertise and a good national and international standing as a researcher.
• Ability to supervise doctoral students to a PhD and to lead and develop activities.
• Five weeks of higher education teaching training, or equivalent knowledge, unless there are valid reasons.
• Very good English and good Swedish.

Required skills

• Qualitative research methods, with experience of teaching, course development and research using them.
• Experience of research in crisis preparedness, crisis management, social vulnerability, civil society issues and critical perspectives.
• Collaborative skills, initiative and independent problem solving.

Applications are written in English, follow LTH's academic qualifications portfolio and are uploaded as PDFs through the recruitment system.