Stillingstittel:
Doctoral Research Fellowship in Governance and indigenous-industry relations at Centre for Sami Studies and ISS

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
Jobbnorge ID: 127412

Application deadline: 1. September 2016

Ref.nr 2016/5301

 

One Doctoral Research Fellowship (PhD) in Governance and indigenous-industry relations is available at Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The position is affiliated to the research group Arctic Governance.

 

The appointment is a fixed term position for a period of four years.

 

The purpose of the PhD Research Fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a doctoral dissertation to be defended publically. The candidate will be affiliated with the Faculty's organised research training, and the academic work must result in a doctoral thesis aiming to obtain the degree of PhD within the period of employment. Admission to a PhD programme is a prerequisite for employment, and the programme period starts on commencement of the position.

 

The successful candidate must meet the requirements for admission to the Faculty's PhD program, cf. § 6 of UiT PhD regulations. Moreover, the applicant must prove English language proficiency equivalent to the standards of Norwegian Higher Education Entrance Qualification, see PhD Regulations UiT.

 

For more information, see also uit.no/hsl/phd.

 

For further information about the position (and the project), please contact Academic director, dr. polit. Else Grete Broderstad, tel. +47 77 64 69 08, e-mail else.g.broderstad (at) uit.no or Head of administration Hildegunn Bruland, tel. + 47 77 64 55 35, e-mail hildegunn.bruland (at) uit.no

 

Affiliation

Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (HSL) has six departments and four centres. The faculty enrolls about 3000 students and employs 400 academic and approximately 130 administrative staff members. The faculty is engaged in research, teaching and outreach activities in a variety of disciplines within humanities and social sciences. It has a leading role in several disciplines within humanities and social sciences in Norway and the Northern region. Much of the tuition is unique in a Northern Norwegian context. In addition, HSL is responsible for the University's overall portfolio in teacher training.

 

The aim of the Centre for Sami Studies (Sesam) is to strengthen multidisciplinary research in Sami and indigenous issues at the University. The centre shall contribute to increased research and dissemination within topics related to Sami and indigenous peoples and strengthen profiling of, and recruitment to, studies focusing on Sami languages, culture, society and indigenous peoples' rights and conditions. The centre's activities shall contribute to the strengthening of Sami languages in an academic context as well as to the development of collaboration with Sami educational and research institutions. Sesam shall moreover assist the leadership of the University and the faculty in Sami and indigenous issues. The centre is responsible for two international master's degree programmes: a two-year full-time Master's Programme in Indigenous Studies (MIS) and the joint Master's programme Governance and Entrepreneurship in Northern and Indigenous Areas (GENI) with a three years duration, flexible and partly online study programme. Currently, the centre has al

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Hansine Hansens veg 18 9019 TROMSØ

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Troms

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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