Researcher - New physical retail formats (PA2022/3844)

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has around 46 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.

Lund University School of Economics and Management is one of eight faculties within Lund University. More than 4 000 students and 450 researchers, teachers and other staff are engaged here in training and research in economic history, business administration, business law, informatics, economics, statistics and research policy.

Lund University School of Economics and Management is accredited by the three largest and most influential accreditation institutes for business schools: EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. Only just over 100 business schools in the world have achieved this prestigious Triple Crown accreditation.

The Department of Business Administration in Lund is one of the leading environments for education and research within the business administration field. We conduct active and advanced research in entrepreneurship, corporate finance, research policy, marketing, organization and leadership, accounting, and strategy. The department has approximately 2,500 students and around 175 active researchers, teachers, doctoral students, and administrative staff.

The researcher will work within the project “New physical retail formats–what are the effects and how to evaluate these new concepts?” funded by The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Council. The project aimsto provide insight into how consumers view new retail formats and also how retail companies argue for introducing these and how these formats are evaluated. This will be done by studying—through interviews and observations as well as analysis of secondary data—consumers opinion and behaviour as well as the insight of different personnel at retail organizations.

The researcher is expected to actively participate in the research project by conducting research (together with the project participants) and thereby contribute to the projects objectives by writing and publishing research articles based on the empirical results obtained. More specifically, the selected candidate is expected to participate mainly in the data collection and analyses using interpretive research. The temporary researcher will be provided with necessary equipment and an office space.

To be qualified, the applicant should hold a PhD degree in business administration in the field of marketing or be at the final stages of doctoral studies.

• Very high proficiency in English, in speech and writing.
• Be able to collect and analyze large sets of qualitative data.
• Documented competence in conducting in-depth interviews, as well ability to draw insights from data by using different interpretive based methods.
• Experience of working within the social constructivist research tradition (important to be able to collect and analyse data in a relevant way).
• Good knowledge of literature on marketing, in particular retail marketing and consumer research.
• Experience in performing empirical analyses using qualitative data analysis software, such as NVivo.
• Documented competence and experience of studying consumer issues from a sociocultural and critical perspective.
• Doctoral studies focused on investigating consumers from different perspectives,most importantly from a consumer cultural viewpoint.
• Experience of writing and presenting papers at various conferences

Practical experience of working in marketing within industry outside academia in an international setting is a merit as the data collection involves contacts with companies as well (to set up consumer data collection).

Limit of tenure (20%), 6 months. The university applies an individual salary setting. Feel free to state salary claims in your application.

Only online applications are accepted. Your application should be written in English and contain the following documents:

• Letter of introduction (max. 2 pages) containing a presentation of the applicant, important qualifications and a brief description of why the applicant is interested in the projects.
• Document demonstrating completion of doctoral degree within 5 weeks.
• Curriculum Vitae.
• Copies of certificates and copies of any other documents that may be important to include in the application.

All submitted documents must be attested as to their authenticity.