Postdoctoral in Digital Family Support

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Your tasks

Research focus: implementation of an evidence-based digital support programme via 1177 for relatives of persons with heart failure, as well as user-centred further development of digital support.

You will work in an interdisciplinary research project that combines implementation research, digital health and support for relatives of people with heart failure. The project includes the implementation of an evidence-based digital support programme via 1177 Support and treatment in six Swedish regions. The work is carried out in close collaboration with relatives, healthcare professionals, regional administrations, patient organisations, designers and technical experts.

As a postdoc, you will mainly conduct research.

• Plan, coordinate and evaluate the implementation of the support programme in participating regions.
• Recruit participants as well as conducting individual interviews, focus groups, workshops and survey-based data collection with relatives, healthcare professionals and other actors, registration and data collection from REDCap.
• Analyse qualitative data, for example with reflective thematic analysis or qualitative content analysis, and contribute to the analysis of quantitative data and usage data from 1177.
• Apply the PRISM and RE-AIM implementation frameworks to study scope, adoption, implementation, effects and long-term maintenance.
• Contribute to the development of an implementation strategy for the national wide introduction of digital family support.
• Participate in co-creation and evaluation of the programme's language, structure, content, accessibility and digital formats.
• Collaborate with research partners, clinical activities, regional actors and other partners and participate in educational and information activities.
• Write scientific articles, present results at scientific conferences and contribute to reporting and dissemination to healthcare and society.

As a postdoc, you will mainly conduct research. Teaching can also be included in the tasks, but not more than one fifth of the working time. 

Your qualifications

In order to be eligible for a postdoctoral position, you have obtained a doctoral degree or a foreign degree that is considered equivalent to a doctoral degree. Your degree must be completed no later than the time when the employment decision is made. It is a qualification if your degree is completed no more than three years before the application deadline for this position. 

We are looking for you who have a doctoral degree in nursing or implementation science or other relevant area for the project.

The employment requires that you have:

• Documented experience in qualitative data collection and analysis.
• Ability to independently plan, implement, analyse and report research.
• Experience of scientific writing, supported by publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Very good ability to communicate in Swedish and English in speech and writing, as data collection and collaboration take place in Swedish healthcare, while scientific reporting is mainly done in English.
• Good cooperation ability and ability to work structured with multiple actors and parallel activities.

It is particularly meritorious if you have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• implementation research and use of established frameworks, in particular PRISM and/or RE-AIM;
• Digital health, eHealth or online healthcare support and treatment programmes.
• Co-creation, participatory research, service design or user-centred development.
• Research on relatives, heart failure, long-term illness, self-care or person-centred care.
• Survey data, register data and statistical analysis.
• multi-centre studies or collaborations with regions, clinical activities, authorities or patient organisations;
• Research ethics, data protection or responsible use of AI in healthcare.

As a person, you are independent, initiating and analytical, while enjoying an interdisciplinary and collaborative project. The work requires that you can create reliable relationships with relatives, healthcare professionals and other actors, communicate research to different target groups and run tasks from planning to finished scientific publication. Great emphasis will be placed on personal characteristics and suitability for employment.

Your workplace

You will work at the Department of Nursing, Department of Health, Medicine and Care at Linköping University. The research environment conducts close and interdisciplinary research in areas such as heart failure, self-care, family support, digital health, complex interventions and implementation. The project is carried out in close collaboration with healthcare in several regions, 1177-related actors, patient organisations and researchers in medicine, nursing, behavioral science, sociology, design and technology.

About the employment

The employment is a fixed-term employment of two years with the possibility of an extension with a total duration of up to three years. The postdoctoral position is full-time.

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Salary and benefits

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Application

You are applying for this position by clicking on the button "Apply" below. Your application must be submitted to Linköping University no later than October 15 2026. The application received after the deadline is not taken into account.

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