Information Systems Linköping University

Overview

The aim of the Information Systems programme is to provide you with the ability to independently plan and carry out advanced research and to present and disseminate research results both within and beyond the academic sphere.

Career opportunities after graduation

The aim of doctoral studies at Linköping University is to prepare for a professional career as an independent researcher or for advanced work in education, investigation, or development where research skills within information systems are important.

The field of research: information systems

The field of research, information studies, explore the work of people to develop and modify IT-based information systems in operational use and in society, and the possible effects that arise in this connection on people, organisations and society. This comprises theory, perspectives, strategies and policies, models, methods, working methods used during digitalisation, and IT tools (digital resources) with respect to systems development. Various situations centred around development and change can be studied, such as planning/governance/co-ordination, analysis/inquiry/specification, procurement, structuring, design, introduction, evaluation, administration/further development, replacement and discontinuation of information systems, and interaction with other forms of operational development. IT-based information systems that are studied within the field of research may be part of larger infrastructure and shared resources.

They may also be of a more independent nature or packaged in various ways, one example of which is in the form of services. The subject also investigates the preconditions of digitalisation and its results, such as in studies of the application and consequences of information systems that result from systems development, or as a necessary condition for change and the further development of systems.