Lund University School of Economics and Management is one of eight faculties within Lund University. More than 4 000 students and 450 researchers, teachers and other staff are engaged here in training and research in economic history, business administration, business law, informatics, economics, statistics and research policy.
Lund University School of Economics and Management is accredited by the three largest and most influential accreditation institutes for business schools: EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. Only just over 100 business schools in the world have achieved this prestigious Triple Crown accreditation.
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department with around 70 employees, including researchers, teachers, technical and administrative staff, and doctoral students. The department has a large doctoral training programme and coordinates three international master’s programmes. It has a well-established reputation for its broad research focused on long-term processes, where economic theory and quantitative methods are important methodological tools. Strong research areas at the department include economic growth and structural transformation, innovation, energy and sustainability, development economics and economic demography, as well as financial history, education, and labour markets. More information is available on the department’s website.
Subject area and duties
The subject area is economic history.
The duties consist primarily of research but also include teaching and certain administrative tasks. The position is tied to a project that examines women inventors in Sweden and France from the establishment of the modern patent systems to 1930. The project builds a database linking patent records to information from civil registers and census data, and analyses how social background, institutional conditions, and life-course events such as marriage, childbearing, and widowhood shaped women’s patenting over the life course.
Requirements
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A completed PhD in economic history, and
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Demonstrated teaching expertise.
Merits / Desirable qualifications
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Publications in journals or with book publishers that use an international peer-review system
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Publications within the project’s research area
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Training in higher education teaching and learning
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Experience researching innovation and patenting in historical perspective
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Documented ability to work in Python
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Experience with machine-learning methods for record linkage and text analysis
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Documented experience with machine-learning methods for image-to-text transcription of historical source material
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Fluency in Swedish and French
Assessment criteria
The School of Economics and Management seeks to maintain a balance between research and teaching in all appointments. In the assessment of applicants, equal weight will therefore be given to scientific and teaching expertise. Administrative ability will also be taken into account.
In the overall assessment of scientific expertise, publications in journals or with book publishers that use an international peer-review system are considered a strong merit. Publications within the project’s research area are also considered meritorious.
Consideration will be given to how the applicant, through their experience and expertise, can be assessed as complementing and strengthening the department’s research and teaching.
In the assessment of scientific expertise, particular weight will be given to:
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The quality and scope of the scientific output
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Publications in international peer-reviewed contexts
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Relevance to the project’s research area
In the assessment of teaching expertise, particular weight will be given to:
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Documented teaching experience and expertise
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Experience teaching within a relevant subject area
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Ability to plan, deliver, and develop teaching
In addition, the following will be taken into account:
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Administrative ability
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Ability to contribute to and collaborate within the department’s activities
Terms and conditions
The position is a fixed-term special appointment at 100 % of full-time, starting 2026-09-01
Application
The application must include:
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A cover letter
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CV and list of publications
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A description of teaching and research qualifications, maximum three pages
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One selected paper (working paper or publication, as a link or PDF)
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Degree certificate(s), etc.
Applicants are encouraged to provide the names and contact details of up to two referees, but letters of recommendation will not be considered as part of the application.
Anställningsform: särskild visstidsanställning | Anställningens omfattning: heltid | Antal lediga befattningar: 1 | Sysselsättningsgrad: 100 | Ort: Lund | Län: Skåne län | Land: Sweden | Referensnummer: PA2026/2179 | Kontakt: Anna Tegunimataka +46462220498, Anna Tegunimataka +46462220498, | Facklig företrädare: SACO:Saco-s-rådet vid Lunds universitet 046-2220000, SACO:Saco-s-rådet vid Lunds universitet 046-2220000, OFR/ST:Fackförbundet ST:s kansli 046-2229362, OFR/ST:Fackförbundet ST:s kansli 046-2229362, SEKO: Seko Civil 046-2229366, SEKO: Seko Civil 046-2229366, | Publicerat: 2026-06-25 | Sista ansökningsdag: 2026-07-23
