Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Policing and Prevention, with a focus on police preventive work

Malmo

Reference number P 2024/1024

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We are looking for
Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Policing and Prevention, with a focus on police preventive work.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who wants to engage in important research and be part of the development of the newly established centre. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will work together with committed researchers who want to contribute to change and improved police work with a focus on crime prevention.

Work duties
A postdoc is primarily expected to conduct research. Teaching may also be included in the tasks, but up to a maximum of one-fifth of the working time.

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will be part of the newly established research centre Malmö Centre for Policing and Prevention (CPP) at Malmö University. The centre is a collaboration between the Department of Criminology and the Department of police work at the Faculty of Health and Society. Here you can read more about the centre: Malmö Centre for policing and prevention.

Within the framework of the current position, the postdoctoral researcher is expected to conduct research related to one of the centre´s three main themes:

• Strategies to prevent serious violence and the recruitment of young people to crime. This theme studies various strategies to counteract serious violence and prevent young people from becoming involved in serious crime. One such strategy is focused deterrence, a crime prevention strategy that targets individuals and groups who are particularly active in crime and combines targeted law enforcement measures with offers of help and support to leave crime.
• Preventive work in local communities to reduce crime and increase safety. This theme studies how the police collaborate to build a safer local community. The focus here is primarily on volume crime and insecurity. This includes, for example, interventions against volume crimes such as residential burglaries and vandalism, initiatives such as neighbourhood watch, but also problem-oriented police work in collaboration with municipalities and property managers, and studies of the implementation of security zones.
• Effective and legally secure criminal investigation with new technology. This theme studies how police investigations can become more efficient and legally sound, and how new technologies can contribute to this.

As a postdoc, you are expected to work independently but also collaborate with other researchers at the centre.

Qualifications
A postdoc is primarily employed to conduct research. They have completed a doctoral degree or a foreign degree considered on par with a doctoral degree. This is primarily relevant to people who have completed their doctoral degree no more than three years before the application period for the position of postdoc has expired. Under special circumstances, the doctoral degree may have been completed at an earlier date. Special circumstances constitute time off because of illness, parental leave, clinical practice, union duties or other similar circumstances.

In addition to formal competence, University employees must possess the personal capacities necessary to perform the duties of the position well and to represent the University in the best possible way.

Specific requirements for this position:

• Experience in research related to one of the centre's three focus areas and/or experience in evaluating preventive work.
• Good knowledge of English (speaking and writing).

Assessment criteria
Accordning to the Appointment Rules at Malmö University, the assessment crieteria for a position as Postdoctor are:

• The quality and focus of the doctoral thesis
• Research activities within fields relevant to the appointment in question
• Documented ability to independently conduct research of a sufficient standard
• Reflective presentation of their own pedagogical outlook and practices
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate with actors in other parts of society with a connection to education and research

Faculty, Department and Research environment
Research at the Department of Police Work focuses on various parts of police activities. Current research primarily focuses on police preventive work, pedagogical research on educational forms in police education, police health, and power-analytical issues related to the practice of the police profession, as well as legally secure and effective criminal investigations. The research aims to contribute to the development of police activities or police education. Read more about the research at the Unit for Policing here.

The Department of Police Work offers the Police Program as well as independent courses in effective and legally secure criminal investigations and evidence-based police work.

Research at the Department of Criminology places particular emphasis on increasing knowledge about how the interaction between individual, contextual, and societal processes causes crime and other related problems. The research integrates theory and empiricism and forms the basis for theory development and application in crime prevention and security creation. The subject is multi- and interdisciplinary, which means it collects and integrates theoretical and methodological concepts and approaches from different scientific fields. Read more about the research at the department here.

The Department of Criminology offers education in criminology at both undergraduate and advanced levels, both in the form of programs and independent courses.

Further information
For questions about the position, contact:

Caroline Mellgren, Head of the Department of Police Work, 040-6657941, [email protected]

Anna-Karin Ivert, Head of the Department of Criminology, 040-665-76 47, [email protected]

Other questions about employment at Malmö University are answered by HR specialist Ewa-Marie Dahlgren, [email protected]

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Application
You apply for this position via Malmö University's recruitment system by clicking on the "Apply" button. As an applicant, you are responsible for ensuring that your application is completed in accordance with the job advertisement, and that it is submitted to the University no later than august 18th. The application must be written in Swedish, English or any of the Nordic languages. As an applicant, you are responsible for the application and its appendices being translated.

According to Malmö University’s qualifications portfolio, the application must include:

• Curriculum vitae
• Documentation of pedagogical expertise incl. the pedagogical work to be considered (maximum three). The pedagogical works are uploaded on selection question 6.
• Documentation of scientific expertise incl. the primary scientific work to be considered (maximum three). The scientific works are uploaded on selection question 7.

The application must also include:
Applicants who have not completed their doctoral degree at the end of the application period can apply provided that all requirements for a completed degree are met before the (intended) decision date for employment. The defense date and fulfilled requirements for the degree must be confirmed at the time of application by the applicant's main supervisor, director of studies or equivalent.

• Degree certificate (alternatively certificate with the date of the thesis defense) and other relevant certificates
• A brief account of research, teaching and other activities relevant to the position to which the application pertains, including a description of how the applicant envisions their future research and teaching
• Vision of the applicant's future research and how it relates one or more of the centre's main themes.
• Doctoral dissertation

The rules for appointment of teaching staff at Malmö University are regulated in the Appointment Rules at Malmö University.

Merits and qualifications must be documented according to Qualifications portfolio for lecturers/researchers at Malmö University

Application documents
We accept application documents digitally. Physical documents are accepted only in exceptional cases. Contact [email protected] if you have books and any other documents that cannot be sent electronically.

Miscellaneous
This is a full-time, fixed-term employment of two years. The period of employment is determined in accordance with the agreement “Avtal om tidsbegränsad anställning som postdoktor” (“Agreement on fixed-term employment as a post-doctoral fellow”) between Swedish Agency for Government Employers, SACO-S, OFR/S and SEKO, dated 1 February 2022.

Malmö University is a workplace and higher education institution that is characterised by an open and inclusive approach, where gender equality and equal terms add value to our activities.

Malmö University applies individual salary setting.

Start date
Autumn 2024 or by agreement

Union representatives
SACO-S: Désirée Annvir, [email protected]

Sveriges Lärare: Peter Persson, [email protected]

OFR/S (ST): Lutfi Zuta, [email protected]

We are looking forward to receiving your application!
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You apply no later than 18/08/2024 by clicking the apply button.