PhD Position in Public HealthWe are looking for two highly motivated and dynamic postdocs for three-year positions commencing January 1st, 2024 or a date by negotiation. These postdocs form part of a larger project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) about what drives the establishment of cross-border data infrastructures and how they affect everyday healthcare. Information about the department can be found at: https://publichealth.ku.dk/ Our research The two positions form part of a larger project called DataSpace, managed by Professor Klaus Hoeyer. DataSpace proposes a new conceptualization of how the pursuit of health is shaped by data. Healthcare is increasingly datafied and a wide range of actors – patients, clinicians, administrators, policymakers and industry – want to be able to exchange and access health data across national boundaries. Competing initiatives for fostering cross-border data integration proliferate, and the EU provides major investments, e.g. through the European Health Data Space (EHDS). These massive investments will influence healthcare, administration and research, but we do not know how. DataSpace explores what is driving the establishment of cross-border health-data infrastructures, which types of infrastructures are being established, with which implications for whom, and what comes to be included and acted upon in relation to health, organizational performance, and health policy. Furthermore, these investments emerge in tandem with wider social changes where data have become constitutive for the lives we can live. With DataSpace we therefore explore and conceptualize how people experience themselves and the world around them with and through data. We take the term ‘space’, empirically present in the EHDS initiative, and reinvigorate it theoretically to establish a vocabulary fitted for understanding data-intensive health environments. We suggest seeing data spaces as having both formative and experiential dimensions and explore how they interact. Concerning the formative dimensions, data spaces are enacted through promises, work, and users. Four experiential dimensions relate to what is experienced as right (legally and morally), true (epistemologically), present (phenomenologically) and valuable (economically, emotionally, and socially). This theoretical approach provides a new understanding of how patients, clinicians, researchers, administrators, and industry shape healthcare with and through data. Throughout the project we share and compare our materials. It is therefore important that you feel comfortable with collaborative work. 1. Position: The legal and ethical dimensions of the establishment of data infrastructures in the EU Candidate profile: Essential experience and skills:
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2. Position: The value dimensions of cross-border data infrastructures in and beyond the EU This postdoc focuses on the establishment of privately initiated cross-border data infrastructures for sharing health data, for example, non-profit organisations and commercial companies for whom health data is the main asset and the companies wanting to sell software or to use data made available from other initiatives, e.g., the EHDS. The position will look at services operating across borders, also beyond the EU. It also focuses on how members of these organisations and the people, whose data they use, valuate these initiatives: which types of valuation shape their commitments? Candidate profile: Essential experience and skills:
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Place of employment Terms of employment The position is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 3 years. The starting date is January 1st, 2024 or after agreement. Salary, pension and other conditions of employment are set in accordance with the Agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (Danish Confederation of Professional Associations) or other relevant organisation. Currently, the monthly salary starts at 36,290 DKK/approx. 4,870 EUR (April 2023 level). Depending on qualifications, a supplement may be negotiated. The employer will pay an additional 17.1 % to your pension fund. Foreign and Danish applicants may be eligible for tax reductions, if they hold a PhD degree and have not lived in Denmark the last 10 years. The position is covered by the Job Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2020. Questions Foreign applicants may find this link useful: www.ism.ku.dk (International Staff Mobility). Application procedure
Deadline for applications: 3 October 2023, 23.59pm CET We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline and to not consider applications that do not live up to the abovementioned requirements. The further process You can read about the recruitment process at https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/ The applicant will be assessed according to the Ministerial Order no. 242 of 13 March 2012 on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Universities. Interviews are expected to be held in November, 2023. The University of Copenhagen wish to reflect the diversity of society and encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of personal background. Part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and among Europe’s top-ranking universities, the University of Copenhagen promotes research and teaching of the highest international standard. Rich in tradition and modern in outlook, the University gives students and staff the opportunity to cultivate their talent in an ambitious and informal environment. An effective organisation – with good working conditions and a collaborative work culture – creates the ideal framework for a successful academic career. InfoApplication deadline: 03-10-2023
Employment start: 01-01-2024
Working hours: Full time
Department/Location: Department of Public Health
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