PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Economics in Sweden

This postdoctoral appointment is based at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, an international academic environment with a strong research profile in political institutions, elections, public opinion, democracy, international and European politics, environmental politics, corruption, and political ideas. The postdoctoral researcher will play a central role in the development of OCCPOL’s comparative data infrastructure, a shared empirical resource used by the proj...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg , an internationally oriented research environment with active seminar and workshop activity. The department highlights its strength in political science and its broad research profile, including political institutions, elections, public opinion and democracy, international and European politics, environmental politics, corruption, and political ideas. The appointed postdoctoral researcher ...

This postdoctoral position is based at Linköping University within Tema Miljöförändring , part of the Department of Thematic Studies. The role is embedded in the Formas-funded research project Democratic Innovations for Climate Transformation (2027–2029) , which examines how climate citizens’ assemblies and related democratic processes may contribute to broader system change. The project brings together scholars from Linköping University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre to carry out a systema...

The Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness at the Stockholm School of Economics is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to develop an independent research line on how wellbeing can be measured beyond traditional rating scales. The project sits at the intersection of wellbeing science, psychometrics, and computational methods, with a particular emphasis on natural language processing and large language models. The research will focus on open-ended responses, text, and speech as sources of infor...

Linköping University is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral researcher to join a research programme on the prevention of cardiovascular disease, with particular emphasis on the causes and consequences of atherosclerosis. The project is primarily based on data from the national, population-based SCAPIS study, which combines advanced imaging of atherosclerosis with detailed information on health behaviours, risk factors, and cardiovascular health in approximately 30,000 middle-aged individuals. Th...

Linköping University is offering a PhD position in philosophy with a focus on applied ethics. The doctoral project will examine ethical questions surrounding age as a basis for priority setting in health care, particularly in response to the challenges of an ageing population. The project must have a clear ethical focus, while allowing for the use of empirical approaches. The PhD student will be based across the Division of Philosophy and Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and th...

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a project on hospital energy systems and infrastructure resilience at the School of Architecture and Built Environment in Stockholm, Sweden. The research investigates how hospitals can optimise energy use while maintaining essential services during climate-related disruptions. The project will model hospital HVAC, heating, cooling and backup energy systems, while examining their dependencies on broader energy and healthca...

Lund University is recruiting a doctoral student in observational astronomy to investigate the origins and evolution of the Milky Way through Galactic archaeology . The project will use spectroscopic observations from 4MOST , a major survey in which Lund researchers have held leading roles in survey direction and data-analysis working groups. The PhD student will analyse 4MOST data released continuously over the next five years to study how stellar populations in the Milky Way formed and evolved...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, within a large, international academic environment with active research on political institutions, elections, public opinion, democracy, international and European politics, environmental politics, corruption, and political ideas. The postdoc will join a research project on how favorable national economic conditions shape political engagement. Working with Florence So and the wider project...