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We have the power of over 50,000 students and co-workers. Students who provide hope for the future. Co-workers who contribute to Linköping University meeting challenges of today. Our fundamental values rest on credibility, trust and security. By having the courage to think freely and innovate, our actions together, large and small, contribute to a better world. We look forward to receiving your application! Are you interested in the potential of citizens' assemblies and other democratic innovations to drive climate transformation? Come join us!Work assignments The Environmental Change division (tema Miljöförändring) at the Department of Thematic Studies is looking to hire a two-year postdoctoral researcher specializing in democratic innovations.You will be part of the Formas-funded research project Democratic Innovations for Climate Transformation (2027-2029), which entails a systematic and interdisciplinary knowledge synthesis of how climate citizens’ assemblies and related democratic processes can contribute to system transformation. The project explores what the existing research literature tells us about the political impact of climate assemblies, how they might contribute to broader systemic transformations, and what this means for Swedish climate governance.As postdoc on the project, you will take a leading role in carrying out the systematic literature review across academic databases and grey literature, following established standards for searching, screening, and quality assessment. You will contribute centrally to the comparative synthesis of findings across studies, and to identifying evidence gaps in how deliberative processes connect to system-level transformation. You will also help design and facilitate stakeholder dialogues with Swedish municipalities and practitioners, which ensures that the resulting knowledge is robust and genuinely useful for policy and practice.You will work in close collaboration with the project’s principal investigator and a