Is the Swedish Defence University your next workplace?
As an employee with us, you are an important part of the university's mission to contribute to national and international security. With us, you will have the opportunity to work with committed colleagues on exciting issues in an environment where the military meets the civilian.
"We train both today's and tomorrow's civilian and military leaders"
Vice chancellor Robert Egnell about the Swedish Defence University.
Employee stories
Vera van Zoest is queen of data
In the methods course you will meet Vera van Zoest for the first time. She teaches statistics at the master's programme Innovation, Defence and Security – and over your two years with her, s...
Nobuo Hayashi and International Operational Law
This former lawyer at the Prosecutor’s Office at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia describes teaching as a participatory thought process, taking a fresh look at r...
She wants to understand how totalitarianism arises
Evin Ismail researches the development of Islamic ideology, and she is currently writing a popular science book on the modern history of Islam. "I am also interested in the information infl...
Passive-destructive leaders are the worst
Maria Fors Brandebo's research has unexpectedly shown that it is the passive destructive leadership behaviors that often have the greatest negative impact. "They not only exacerbate workpla...
The conflict in Georgia triggered an interest in war studies
Although Emil Petersson does not have a military background he chose to conduct his doctoral studies at the Swedish Defence University. Events in South Ossetia thirteen years previously had...
From coastal ranger to combat diver to the SEDU
Patrik Hulterström has dedicated his life to the military. He is now writing his doctoral dissertation on wargames. “If there’s one thing we don’t want, it’s war. If we don’t want it, we mu...
