Advertise and recruit for a doctoral position at GPH

This page describes the different steps of advertising and recruiting for a doctoral position at the Department of Global Public Health in general. The process is carried out in accordance with KI's regulations.

Please note that you are welcome to contact the doctoral educational administration, for any additional support during all steps of the process.

1. Contact the doctoral education and create an advertisement

To advertise the doctoral position, email fu-adm.gph@ki.se with your research group leader as 'CC' (copy) in the email.

The administrator for doctoral education will provide you with the necessary templates and will support during the whole recruitment process.

2. Assess eligibility, evaluate and interview applicants

Once the position is advertised, the administrator for doctoral education will contact the KI Doctoral Eligibility to inform them to do a preliminary assessment of the applicants.

After the last application day for the doctoral position and the assessment of all the applicants, the supervisor evaluates and contacts the candidates for interview. 

The final step is of the recruitment process is to contact two references of the selected candidate.

3. Write a justification for the seleted candidate

Write a justification of the choice of candidate, the doctoral education will provide you with a template. The justification should be signed by you, the main supervisor, as well as the research group leader. Send a copy to fu-adm.gph@ki.se

Next step of the admission process: admission decision

When step two and three of the recruitment process are done, a final eligibility assessment will be available for the chosen candidate. Both the justification and the final assessment are mandatory attachments to the admission decision. These documents shall be e-mailed to: fu-adm.gph@ki.se

After admission, a decision is also taken on employment.

Eligibility assessment - when exception from the requirement to advertise is approved

  1. The supervisor or candidate contacts the doctoral educational administration
    Contact the doctoral educational administrator at fu-adm.gph@ki.se.
  2. The administrator emails the prospective doctoral student with further instructions on how to upload the relevant documents in the recruitment system Varbi for the purposes of eligibility assessment. For candidates outside Sweden, this must be done before arrival.
  3. If a candidate is considered eligible, an eligibility statement is sent to the candidate and the supervisor. This statement is then to be printed out and appended to the admission decision.

Contact 

Doctoral education administration

Visiting address: GPH administration unit, floor 3, Widerström building,
Tomtebodavägen 18A, Campus Solna