Stillingstittel: Associate Professor in Music Cognition

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.Associate Professor in Music Cognition

A position as Associate Professor in Music Cognition is jointly available at the Departments of Musicology and Psychology, University of Oslo. The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.

The Department of Musicology is one of the largest musicology institutions in Europe with its 30 permanent staff members, 200 bachelor students, 100 master's students and 10 PhD and postdoctoral fellows. The staff and students are involved in research within a number of different fields, with a particular focus on cognitive musicology, popular music studies and music history and aesthetics. The Department houses labs with state-of-the-art motion capture, sound spatialization, and music production facilities, and is internationally known for its research on music and movement, popular music, and musical rhythm. Through the fourMs project, the Department of Musicology has established a close research collaboration with the Departments of Informatics and Psychology.

The Department of Psychology is the largest department at the Faculty of Social Sciences and one of the largest at the University of Oslo (about 1300 students plus 140 PhD students) with 70 permanent staff members as well as several post-doctoral researchers. The music cognition position will be hosted within the Cognitive Neuroscience group, with a high research profile (evaluated by the Norwegian Research Council as “excellent”). The group’s research focuses on several aspects of cognition and brain function by using state-of-the-art technology in neuroimaging and eye-tracking as well as by study of clinical or special populations.

Researchers from the two Departments have collaborated for several years, and we now seek to strengthen further the collaboration by jointly appointing an associate professor specializing in the area of music cognition. Applicants will need to be critically informed and pioneering in their research, with identified specializations in the field, and with a capacity to combine psychological and musicological perspectives and methods.

The successful recipient of this post will be expected to undertake research at a high international standard, participate in teaching, supervision and students’ evaluation at all levels, while fulfilling administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the two Departments. As a joint position, the recipient is expected to share his or her working time equally between the two Departments, and initiate joint research projects and courses.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent academic qualifications within music psychology, musicology, psychology, neuroscience, or related topical areas
• Publications showing interdisciplinary research work in music psychology
• Knowledge of experimental methods
• Knowledge of music theory
• Pedagogical skills and qualifications in leadership and administration, see How to document your pedagogical skills
• Potential for project acquistion
• Personal suitability and motivation for the position

The following qualifications will count in the

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, The Departments of

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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Lønn periode: Pr. år