Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå, Sweden announces a 2-year post doctoral fellowship.
Deadline to apply: September 15, 2014. 
Full information sound here: http://uid.umu.se/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoctoral-scholarship-%282-years%29-at-umeaa-institute-of-design/

The Umeå Institute of Design, UID, is an art based design education located at the Arts Campus, and part of the Faculty of Science and Technology, at Umeå University. UID is a well-established, but still young, school with a dynamic and positive work environment, an ambitious atmosphere and great individuals. Last year, Umeå Institute of Design was nominated as the world leader in the design competition IDEA, International Design Excellence Awards 2013. In addition, the institute received the highest ranking on Red Dot's list of European and American design schools.

One of our current strategic priorities is to build a research environment that enables us to develop the future foundations of industrial design. Our ambition is to address also the big issues in design, issues that is currently forming our future. We ask questions such as what industrial design is and can be in a post-industrial society. To this end, we are extending key aspects of our existing research: we are initiating new basic research programs exploring emerging experimental design practices; we are revising our PhD programme in order to provide our PhD students with even better support as they develop into independent design researchers; and we are expanding our faculty.

We currently have an open position for at post-doctoral fellow to join us for 2 years. 
This opportunity is aimed for post-doctoral research, to be performed jointly with senior researchers and PhD students, as well as with our collaboration partners. The post-doc fellowship is for two years and comes with a stipend.

We are especially interested in design researchers with a visionary trajectory and a genuine interest in design practices. Our objective is to inquiry into the future of our discipline, and thus to develop the research formats that will enable us to address them in terms of both depth and width: depth in the sense of answering to a profound interest in critically addressing fundamental issues in design; width as a response to a heartfelt concern not only for further specialisation but also for design's relation to society and industry, the larger picture of design practices in education, profession and research.

As a post-doctoral fellow at Umeå Institute of Design you are expected to interact closely with our teaching and researching staff members and PhD students. We are specifically seeking persons who, through intense collaboration, can contribute to the development of our academic environment, and who have a clear vision statement concerning how a special focus on a certain research topic might contribute to the larger body of knowledge in design.

Eligible applicants should have earned a PhD in industrial design or a related field relevant for the position, preferably not more than three years ago. The successful candidate should have the capacity to work independently in research, as well as having the ability to collaborate with others. Preference will be given to applicants with a proven research record, publications and design portfolio. Applicants should be fluent in spoken and written English. To know Swedish is not a requirement.

A complete application should be written in Swedish or English and include: (i) a cover letter summarizing your qualifications, research interests and motives for applying, (ii) a Curriculum Vitae including complete lists of publications (iii) copies of your PhD thesis and a selection of up to five publications, (iv) design portfolio, (v) copies of exam certificates, and (vi) the names and contact details of 2 to 3 references.

The application can be made electronically (MS Word or PDF) or in paper format (two copies).

For further information, please contact Prof. Johan Redström, +46-(0)90-786 76 89, [log in to unmask]   

Your complete application, marked with reference number FS 2.1.12-998-14, should be sent to [log in to unmask] (with reference number on the subject line) or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE 901 87 Umeå, Sweden, to arrive September 15 2014 at the latest.

We look forward to receiving your application!

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