PhD Positions, Örebro University, Sweden (2017)

Örebro University is issuing an open call for reviewers for the recruitment of doctoral students to the Newbreed - MSCA Cofund Doctoral Programme.

The programme aims to create a new breed of researchers within the area of successful ageing by way of creating an international and transdisciplinary environment for research in continuous cooperation with industry, civil society and public sector.

Skills/Qualifications

We invite prospective reviewers from academia, industry and civil society as well as the public sector to apply. You will have to be available to perform approximately one day of work from the 15 October to the 15 November.

Specific Requirements

Applicants should have experience as well as expertize within relevant areas for one or more of the following four thematic areas:

Ageing and psychosocial adjustment: There is a great need to better understand how psychosocial adjustment develops with age and not the least what kind of factors and interactions of factors that are associated with positive and negative psychosocial adjustment.

Ageing from a societal perspective: This theme examines ageing processes within and across societies, how ageing intersects with class, gender, generation and further social divisions, and how this knowledge can be applied beneficially.

Ageing and the fourth industrial revolution: This theme studies how the technologies in the fourth industrial revolution can be developed and applied to ageing, to bring about empowerment, independent living, a greater understanding of age-related diseases, and not least to raise the quality of life. Of equal importance will be also to study and understanding of the aspects that are related to the ethical and societal impacts that such technologies may have.

Further details:
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