Doctoral Researcher in health sciences

Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences and Technology

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 19,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations. The University of Oulu is ranked in the top 3% of the world's universities.

We are now looking for a

Doctoral Researcher

to join the HealthEduCom Lab in the Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu.

The HealthEduCom Lab conducts multidisciplinary research on healthcare education, learning environments, mentoring and educator competence, predictive models of professional learning, and hybrid intelligence in extended reality (XR) contexts. The lab brings together expertise in health sciences, pedagogy, technology-enhanced learning and human-AI collaboration. You will work in an international research environment with access to the University of Oulu's Hybrid Intelligence research profile, the LEAF research infrastructure, and OuluHealth Labs in collaboration with the Wellbeing Services County of North Ostrobothnia.

About the project

The position is part of the Playful Entrepreneurial Minds: Playfulness and Hybrid Intelligence in Higher Education and Working Life (Playful Minds) project funded by the Research Council of Finland. The consortium brings together the University of Lapland, the University of Oulu and the University of Turku, together with national and international research and working-life partners.

At the University of Oulu, we focus on hybrid intelligence, multirealities and playful learning in healthcare and medical education. Its overarching aim is to develop, implement, and validate a multidimensional Hybri