[AISWorld] REMINDER - DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS,with an information security profile,at Örebro University School of Business, Sweden

[Karin Hedström]

DOCTORAL STUDENT IN INFORMATICS
with an information security profile
at Örebro University School of Business, Sweden
ref. no. CFP 204-232/2011

We are seeking a doctoral student to join our research study programme
in informatics, starting in the spring of 2012.

The Informatics department at Örebro University offers two undergraduate
programmes, the Programme of Systems Analysis and the Programme of
Systems Development, as well as the international master’s programme
Electronic Government. In addition, we offer a number of single courses
and various contract courses. The research carried out within the
department is mainly geared towards information security, electronic
government, system development methodology, as well as IT and learning.
In addition to extensive international collaboration, the department is
represented within two research schools at Örebro University:
Technology-Mediated Knowledge Processes and Örebro Research School on
Public Affairs. We are now seeking a doctoral student within the field
of information security with the purpose of elaborating the existing
cooperation between informatics and the computer engineering department
(Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems), also at Örebro University.

As a doctoral student you will study the use of sensor technology and
intelligent systems for the monitoring of the elderly in their home
environments from an information security perspective. The aim is to
contribute to the development of secure sensor technology and secure
intelligent systems that also respect privacy. In this context, secure
refers to such use of sensor technology and intelligent systems that
safeguards the information collected as confidential, not subject to
modification, and accessible. With privacy being a much debated concept,
there lays a great challenge in balancing privacy together with other
important values, such as accessible information. The research project
will in part include data collection in Swedish.

Information on the Internet
Information on admission regulations, the application form, the general
syllabus for the subject, a student handbook, and other information can
be found at Örebro University’s homepage:
www.oru.se/Utbildning/Utbildning-pa-forskarniva/Regler-och-blanketter.

The programme
The opening is for research studies concluding with a doctoral degree.
The programme comprises 240 credits, which corresponds to four years of
full-time study.

Information on the programme can be found in the general syllabus for
informatics as well as in the handbook for research studies at Örebro
University, Regelhandboken.

Entry requirements and selection
For admission to research studies, applicants are required to meet the
general and specific entry requirements. In addition, they must be
considered in other respects to have the ability required to benefit
from the programme. For information on the full entry requirements,
please refer to the Admission Regulations and appendix 2 to the general
syllabus for informatics.

General entry requirements
Alt A. The general entry requirements are met if the applicant, before 1
July 2007, has completed an undergraduate programme of at least 120
credits under the previous Swedish credit system (corresponding to three
years of full-time study).

Alt B. The general entry requirements are also met by applicants who
1. have been awarded a second-cycle qualification (master’s level),
2. have satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240
credits (four years), of which at least 60 credits (one year) was
awarded on the second cycle, or
3. have acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in
Sweden or abroad.
An applicant with a completed programme or obtained qualification from
Swedish undergraduate higher education under the previous system
corresponding to the entry requirements in items B1 and B2 also meet the
general entry requirements. The university may permit exemptions from
the criteria B1-B3 for an individual applicant, if there are special
grounds.

Specific entry requirements
An applicant meets the specific entry requirements for research studies
in the subject if he or she as part of her university qualifications has
passed courses of at least 90 credits, including an independent project
at the advanced course level/60 credit level in informatics. An
applicant who has acquired substantially corresponding knowledge, in
Sweden or abroad, also meet the specific entry requirements.

An applicant with a completed programme or obtained qualification from
Swedish undergraduate higher education under the previous system
corresponding to the entry requirements in the previous paragraph also
meets the entry requirements. This primarily refers to passed courses of
at least 60 credits (including an independent project on the advanced
course level/60 credit level) in informatics.

The assessment whether the applicant in other respects has such ability
to benefit from the programme shall be made based on his/her education
and other previous activities, as well as on the essays and other
independent projects of a scholarly nature that have been submitted by
the applicant.

In selecting between eligible applicants, their ability to benefit from
the programme shall be taken into account and the selection is made
based on the university’s selection criteria, see appendix 2 to the
general syllabus for informatics. If applicants are found to have equal
qualifications, preference will be given to applicants of the
underrepresented sex. The underrepresented sex here refers to when the
share of either female or male students enrolled on the research study
programme in question is less than 40 per cent.

Doctoral grant
Student finance is linked to the place on the programme in the form of a
government-funded doctoral grant. A combination of the doctoral grant
and a part-time assistant appointment, within which the doctoral student
to a limited extent would work in teaching, research or administration,
may come into question. The hours spent on such duties will in that case
be added to the length of the four-year study programme. A student in
receipt of a doctoral grant shall, on application, be appointed to a
doctoral studentship no later than on the date on which, according to
the individual study plan, the equivalent of two years of full-time
study remains until the award of the PhD.

Contact
For more information and further details of the programme, please
contact Fredrik Karlsson (Informatics) +46 (0)19-30 39 94 alt. +46
(0)70-533 94 27 or Amy Loutfi (Computer Engineering) +46 (0)19-30 11 16.

Trade union representatives are: Owe L Johansson (SACO), Robert Persson
(OFR) and Odd Johansson (SEKO). They can all be reached via the
switchboard, +46 (0)19-30 30 00.

Application
To apply for the programme, please use the application form. The
application form also contains instructions on any enclosures required.

Application for a doctoral grant
The doctoral grant must be applied for using a separate form, see
doctoral grant application form.

Your application, marked with ref. no. CFP 204-232/2011, shall be
submitted no later than 10 February 2012. Please enclose all documents
supporting your application as instructed on the application form. Send
the application (in three sets of copies) to Örebro University, Records
Office, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden.