[AISWorld] Career Opportunities: Doctoral students SNSF in Information Systems (IS) University of Lausanne

[Stéphanie Missonier]

Job Title: Doctoral students SNSF in Information Systems (IS)
Requisition ID 13642 - Posted 02/12/2018 - Assistant - Faculty of Economics - Full time - (Research)

Introduction

The University of Lausanne is a higher teaching and research institution composed of seven faculties where approximately 14,300 students and nearly 3,900 collaborators, professors, and researchers work and study. Ideally situated along the lake of Geneva, near Lausanne's city center, its campus brings together over 120 nationalities.

Presentation

The newly created Visual Collaboration Lab (VCL) is opening two full-time Doctoral student SNSF positions in Management of Information Systems with a focus on design science research and team collaboration. This lab is part of the Information Systems Institute (DESI) of the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) , and currently composed of Prof. Stéphanie Missonier and Prof. Yves Pigneur and their PhD students Hazbi Avdiji and Dina Elikan. Its aim is to promote research in the design of collaborative tools based on a design thinking approach.

Job information

Supervisor: Prof. Stéphanie Missonier
Expected start date in position: September 2018
Contract length: 1 year, renewable 1 x 2 years (contracts SNSF), maximum 5 years
Activity rate: 100%
Workplace: University of Lausanne, Campus of Dorigny, Building Internef

Your responsibilities

These two PhD positions are part of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). This project focuses on the challenges of collaboration in multi- or transdisciplinary teams whose aim is to innovate and solve wicked problems. Because of their great heterogeneity (in their functions, disciplines, professions, knowledge, or organizations), these teams have numerous difficulties to communicate, coordinate their contributions, and develop a common mission. The objective of this project is to provide theoretical and practical advances by studying this type of team and by designing artifacts that will help them to solve these challenges.
With this in mind, the two selected candidates will have to be able to:

  *   Collaborate and interact with both researchers and professionals from very diverse backgrounds
  *   Design and test arteficts in concrete professional settings

Your qualifications

In order to complete our team, we are looking for two people with the following qualities :

  *   Master’s degree in Information Systems or related field
  *   A passion for research
  *   A strong interest for research in the following topics: Project management, design science research, design thinking, collaborative technologies, communication and coordination theories, team work, “cross-boundary” teams, innovation, visual tools
  *   Practical experience or internship
  *   Good organizational and communication skills
  *   Analytical skills, critical thinking, and ease with multidisciplinarity
  *   At least basic knowledge in mobile software development
  *   Open-minded and good ability to work on projects and with multidisciplinary people
  *   Fluency in English and in French (possibility to just have some basic knowledge of French)
  *   Interest in educational activities and teaching

What the position offers you

We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diversified and dynamic academic environment, opportunities for professional training.
Possibilities of continuous training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover.
This research is practice oriented as it implies several interactions with practitioners from a variety of areas.

Contact for further information

Professor Stéphanie Missonier
Full Professor in Information Systems
Tel: (00)41 21 692 35 95
email: stephanie.missonier at unil.ch<mailto:stephanie.missonier at unil.ch>


Your application

Deadline 31.03.2018

  *   Curriculum vitae
  *   Motivation letter
  *   Copies of your university degrees
  *   Copies of your university transcripts of your grades (bachelor and master level),
  *   An electronic version of a recent research project (in English) (e.g. master thesis, scientific publication).
  *   The details of up to three references willing to recommend you or three recommendation letters

Please, send your full application in PDF.
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Additional information

UNIL is committed to promoting gender equality and strongly encourages applications from female candidates.