Doctoral education
Halmstad University conducts doctoral education in several areas and has the right to issue doctoral degrees in three areas: Information Technology, Innovation Sciences, and Health and Lifestyle. In other areas, doctoral education is conducted with the support of strategic collaboration agreements with other universities.
HR strategy for researchers
Halmstad University works actively to develop a stimulating work environment with good conditions and career opportunities for our researchers. For this work, the University has received the European Commission’s award ”HR Excellence in Research”.
Doctoral education fields
Health and Lifestyle
The research area Health and Lifestyle is a multidisciplinary field of knowledge that includes understanding, explaining and changing people’s health and lifestyle. Through different scientific perspectives, new and in-depth socially relevant knowledge is created for the health and lifestyle challenges, health innovations and welfare efforts of today and tomorrow.
Information Technology
In the area of Information Technology, the University has doctoral education in three subjects: computer science, informatics and signal and systems engineering. The doctoral education in Information Technology aims to create well-educated researchers, teachers and future leaders in IT.
Innovation Sciences
Innovation Sciences include research in the fields of social and behavioural sciences, technology and natural sciences with a common focus on innovation, its creation, emergence, commercialisation and establishment on the market.
Postgraduate research schools
Halmstad University is part of several different postgraduate research schools, within several different subject areas. A postgraduate research school is an education at PhD level and is characterised by a clear organisation for the doctoral education. Postgraduate research schools are often characterised by multidisciplinary, networking and containing reinforced action, and involve collaboration between subjects and universities on courses and seminars. Postgraduate research schools can also be run in close collaboration with the business community, the public sector or other organisations. Read more about the University’s postgraduate research schools in the drop-down box.
Bennet doctoral students
Thanks to a donation from Carl Bennet AB, five doctoral students (the Bennet doctoral students) are part of the research programme Information Driven Care (IDC). Their projects cover ethical considerations in AI technology usage, enhancing patient safety by integrating AI into primary care, predicting sudden cardiac death using AI, developing multimodal large language models for healthcare, and exploring the scalability of health innovations. These projects address health challenges identified collaboratively with other sectors, push the boundaries of research, and develop technologies and processes for information-driven healthcare solutions.
National industrial postgraduate research school Smart Industry Sweden
The postgraduate research school Smart Industry Sweden is a collaboration between Halmstad University, University West, University of Skövde, Jönköping University and Mid Sweden University in close collaboration with the Knowledge Foundation. The companies in the postgraduate research school receive one or more PhD students but gain access to the entire network of universities, PhD students, senior researchers and companies. The purpose of Smart Industry Sweden is to strengthen Swedish industry.
Smart Industry Sweden External link.
Produktion2030
Access to expertise in the production area is central to industrial development and investment in Sweden. Higher education in the production area should be characterised by collaboration between industry and academia. Produktion2030 has been running a national postgraduate research school in production since 2014.
