The posting
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for two vacant 3-year Postdoc positions in Leadership Studies, both based on a broad understanding of leadership as studies of both governance, organising and management. One Postdoc position will be affiliated with Department of Management, Society and Communication and the other with Department of Organisation. For more information about the two departments, please follow the links.
The two positions form part of CBS Executive Education’s Talent Programme (ETP). The ETP sets out to strengthen CBS’ leadership related research and education capacity within executive education and life-long learning. Expected starting date is 15 February 2027.
Examples of research areas that the Postdocs might cover:
- Leadership Studies with a particular focus on leadership practices and developments in the Nordic context
- Leadership Studies with a particular focus on life-long learning for working professions
The Postdoc positions are non-tenured positions, each for a three-year period with both research and teaching obligations.
To fulfill the research requirements of the positions, the applicants chosen are expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of their respective Departments.
Qualifications
Applicants must hold a PhD or the equivalent. In assessing applications, particular emphasis will be placed on
- Research potential within different aspects of leadership studies in a Nordic context and within life-long learning for working professionals.
- Demonstrable experience with executive education and external engagement based on direct participation in executive education activities, including development and teaching of high-quality offerings in the executive education area.
- Demonstrable interest in developing and co-creating new educational formats that address changing learning and competence needs of relevance for life-long learning, in part by further developing CBS Executive Education’s collaboration with external partners and the CBS Executive Education Foundation.
- Professional proficiency in both Danish and English (written and spoken).
Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type.
The application must include:
- A summary of the candidate’s key abilities and qualifications.
- A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 5 publications for review is allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritise their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
- Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration)
- Information indicating experience in research management, teaching incl executive education, industry co-operation and international co-operation.
- Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level.
- Transcript(s) and a full CV
Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist a minimum of two applicants; when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.
The applicants selected for assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment.
Once the recruitment process has been completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.
For further information please contact: Head of Department MSC Dorte Salskov-Iversen tel.: +45 3815 3181, e-mail [email protected].
For information on the recruitment process, please contact: [email protected]
Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.
Application: Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system.
Application deadline: 19 November 2026
Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.
WE TRANSFORM SOCIETY WITH BUSINESS
CBS is a globally recognised business school with deep roots in the Nordic socio-economic model. Our faculty has a broad focus on societal challenges, and we have earned a reputation for high-quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary research and education. We are located at Frederiksberg and have approximately 20,000 full and part-time students, 800 full-time faculty members, 200 PhD students and 700 administrative staff, and a full portfolio of bachelor, master, MBA/EMBA, PhD and executive programmes taught in English and Danish. Our global profile carries the obligation to address critical challenges in our research and to develop the transformational capabilities of students, graduates and business leaders via our educational activities and opportunities for lifelong learning. Complex challenges call for joint action, and therefore our strategy focuses on strengthening current and starting new partnerships with other sciences, the business community, authorities and civil society. CBS is working continuously on becoming a diverse and inclusive organisation, and we encourage all regardless of gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religious beliefs, LGBT+ identity, cultural background etc. to apply.Reach out to us if you need assistance in the application or recruitment process, if there is something we should know, or if as a person with disability you wish to make use of your preferential access.
