Senior Lecturer in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

- with focus on education and research

Join us in developing education of the highest quality

The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) conducts research in occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, epidemiology, and physiology, with the aim to clarify how environmental and lifestyle factors affect human health. IMM educates students, doctoral students and professionals in areas including work and health, toxicology, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and is responsible for the Master’s Programme in Work and Health and the Master’s Programme in Toxicology at Karolinska Institutet. IMM is a national expert body in environmental medicine. Researchers at IMM serve as scientific advisors to authorities and other decision makers and participate in national and international expert groups.

Description of the subject area

Occupational and environmental medicine is a field focused on identifying, assessing, and preventing health risks caused by factors in the work environment and the surrounding environment. The field spans perspectives from the individual to society, and includes research aimed at identifying and quantifying the impact of risk factors on ill health, prevention through the development of evidence for legislation, knowledge dissemination, and education. This senior lectureship focuses on physical and chemical risk factors.

Your mission

You will be the course responsible teacher and examiner for the course Working Life and Health within the Master’s Programme in Work and Health, teach in the course and in other courses within the programme, and carry out pedagogical development work in courses within the programme.

You will independently conduct and lead research in occupational and environmental medicine, specifically within physical and chemical occupational and environmental medicine, and supervise doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers.

You will participate to IMM’s mission as a national expert body in environmental medicine according to Ordinance (1994:1244) on the Institute of Environmental Medicine, specifically within physical and chemical environmental medicine, by among other things providing authorities with scientifically substantiated evidence.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an employment as Senior Lecturer with focus on education and research, in addition to holding a Degree of Doctor, PhD, or having equivalent scientific expertise, the applicant must have demonstrated excellent pedagogical skills and very good scientific skills. 

For employment as Senior Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements are stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure and these are applied in relation to the subject area of the established recruitment profile:

See the instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet.

Further eligibility requirements

• You must have documented experience of research in physical or chemical occupational and environmental medicine.
• Since you will serve as course responsible teacher and examiner and teach within the Master’s Programme in Work and Health, which is taught in Swedish, you must, besides English, demonstrate proficiency in Swedish, Norwegian or Danish (C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR).

It is a requirement that you have completed 10 weeks of courses on teaching in higher education as indicated in the recommendations of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institution.

Assessment criteria

The Senior Lectureship has a focus on education and research. The assessment will weight qualifications as follows: scientific skills (2), pedagogical skills (3), leadership and collaboration skills (2).

For employment as Senior Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure are applied in relation to established profile of employment.

It is furthermore meritorious that you have demonstrated

• Experience as a course responsible teacher and examiner on a course at advanced level
• Experience of teaching within the field of work and health
• Experience of pedagogical development work
• Experience of assisting authorities by providing scientifically substantiated evidence within physical or chemical occupational and environmental medicine

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement. 

Location: Solna

Your career continues here

Application

Your application must contain the following documents: a cover letter as well as a resumé and a qualifications portfolio including a description of your research plan, both presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s template (ki.se/qualificationsportfolio). You may change or add to your application at any time up to and including the application deadline date. After the deadline, the process closes, and no amendment or addition can be made to your application.

The applications will be reviewed by external reviewers, most often both national and international. For that reason, we prefer that the documents are in English.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.

KI applies individual and differentiated salary setting in accordance with our collective agreements RALS and RALS-T.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Want to make a difference? Join us and contribute to better health for all!

1. Anna Bergström, [email protected]

1. Anda Gliga, SACO-S, [email protected]
2. Bodil Moberg , OFR/ST, [email protected]
3. Anne Boström, SEKO, [email protected]