Positions
Postdoctoral Fellow in Economic History (Lund University) – deadline 31 October 2024
The Department of Economic History of Lund University is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wallenberg Scholar project (2025-2029) ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
The project is led by Professor Martin Dribe and aims to examine the long-term development of demographic inequalities and which forces that have contributed to the unequal lives people are living, not only in economic terms but also in life itself. The project will study different demographic outcomes by socioeconomic status at the individual level from a life-course and long-term perspective and analyse demographic change from the 19th century until today using individual life courses. The research is based on a newly developed data infrastructure – SwedPop – consisting of a number of historical population databases covering the entire population of Sweden to which official health and population registers from the 1960s onward has been linked.
The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with other members of the research group at the Centre for Economic Demography. More specifically the research is based on historical and contemporary population censuses linked to death and migration registers. The research focus will be on mortality, migration and social mobility. The position also involves a limited amount of teaching and/or supervision of Bachelor and Master’s Theses.
Applications should be submitted ultimately 31 October 2024.
