Aanmelding voor PhD Students / Postdocs & Researchers - Vetenskap & Allmänhet (VA) - Internship Project VT25
Meld je aanVetenskap & Allmänhet
– Sweden's expert organisation for science communication and public engagement
Target Group : PhD Students (1 month) and Postdocs and researchers (3 months)
Vetenskap & Allmänhet is a non-profit organisation with the aim of promoting openness and dialogue between researchers and the public. VA has about 100 member organisations, such as universities (including KI), governmental agencies, museums, companies and research funders. We organise meetings and activities, while developing and testing new ways for the general public and researchers to meet in dialogue. We also conduct surveys and studies to explore different aspects of the interface between researchers and society. For more information, see https://vetenskapallmanhet.se/eng/
Vetenskap & Allmänhet is currently involved in a number of different projects. This means that there is a great deal of flexibility regarding the specific focus of the internship depending on the applicant's own interest and experience.
As an intern, you may also be involved in developing new projects and applications together with our researchers. During the internship period, the intern will also participate in office meetings, visit external events related to the internship, participate in ongoing activities and gain insight into other projects we are involved in.
Experiences from previous interns can be found here (2023) and here (2024).
Workplace: Grev Turegatan 14 in central Stockholm, with opportunity to work remotely for some of the time
Desired start date: Flexible
Qualifications: VA is a Swedish-speaking workplace, and many of our projects and activities require communication in Swedish. While fluency in Swedish is not a requirement, an interest in and willingness to develop Swedish language skills during the internship is expected. Good knowledge of Swedish, in speech and writing, is advantageous.
Here are examples of projects that Vetenskap & Allmänhet is engaged in and which may be relevant to the internship:
ForskarFredag (European Researchers' Night)
ForskarFredag is Sweden's most widely spread science festival, which this year will be held on September 22- 27. ForskarFredag is part of the European Researchers' Night science festival. VA coordinates events in around 30 locations throughout Sweden. In 2024, more than 25,000 visitors and more than 450 researchers participated in activities all around Sweden.
Researchers’ Grand Prix is Sweden's largest competition in presentation techniques for researchers. The contestants present their research in the simplest, most inspiring and educational way possible – in just four minutes. The winner is chosen by a jury, together with the audience. Local competitions are held around the country in connection with ForskarFredag and the winners then qualify for a final in Stockholm in November.
The VA Barometer is our annual attitude survey of the Swedish public's views on science, research and researchers. Some questions in the VA barometer have been asked regularly since the survey started in 2002, while some new questions are being developed in order to be able to follow social developments and current events. The results are based on 1,000 telephone interviews and are compiled during October-November and presented in December each year. As an intern you can become involved in the analysis, compilation and development of the Barometer.
VA is involved in a number of citizen science projects on both national and European level. In these projects, citizens and non-researchers become involved and contribute to the research process in different ways. This may include, for example, data collection and/or analysis or formulating research questions. Since 2010, we have coordinated annual mass experiments in collaboration with researchers.
Science communication and public engagement in the EU
VA is managing several EU-projects from soil health to gender issues, science engagement and European Research Area policy making. In those projects we are responsible for different tasks such as coordination and design of science cafés, co-creation workshops, stakeholder analysis, running of stakeholder engagement workshops online and face to face, and much more.
For more information:
Contact researcher Åsa Johansson Palmkvist, asa.johansson.palmkvist@v-a.se