Stillingstittel:
Doctoral research fellowships within the strategic research areas Heritage, Innovation and Troubled Landscapes

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.

Two doctoral research fellowships (SKO 1017) are available within the three strategic research areas of the Museum of Cultural History: Heritage, Innovation, and Troubled Landscapes.

The Museum of Cultural History has the largest archaeological and ethnographic collections in Norway, with antiquities dating from prehistoric times to the Reformation, and ethnographic and numismatic antique and contemporary artefacts from all parts of the world. The collections of the museum include the Viking ships, medieval church art, the coin cabinet, an Egyptian collection and an antiquity collection. In addition, the Museum of Cultural History has an archive of runes and a conservation laboratory with workshops, including one that is set up for the development of digital methods of documentation and public outreach. The Museum of Cultural History is organized in 5 departments and has approx. 120 permanent positions.

The Museum of Cultural History undertakes high quality, innovative research in conjunction with public outreach and the management of culture and cultural heritage. The doctoral research fellowships are avaiable within one of the three areas of the research strategy of the Museum of Cultural History's research strategy:

1. Heritage. Meaningful Materialities: Forgotten, Treasured and Reinvented Objects and Places

2. Innovation. The Entrepeneur – Between Tradition and Structure

3. Troubled Landscapes. Landscapes – Rapid Changes. Habitation and Environments

The Museum of Cultural History has seven research groups that explore topics within the overall framework of these research areas. The doctoral research fellows will be associated with one or more of the research groups. They will have access to work space and have a supervisor at one of the departments at the Museum of Cultural History.

Qualifications

A Master’s degree or equivalent in one of the disciplines represented at the Museum of Cultural History, or a related discipline of relevance to the Museum.

The doctoral research fellowship forms part of an academic education and the aim is to complete a doctoral degree. The doctoral research fellows will follow the PhD programmes of the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation and History, Institute of Social Anthropology, or of another relevant institute at the University of Oslo. The applicant must fulfil the requirements for admission to the relevant PhD programme at the University of Oslo, and is responsible for applying for admission within the given deadlines.

We offer

• salary level 50-57 (430.500-483.700 NOK per year, promotion according to length of service)
• operating grant
• a professionally stimulating working environment
• excellent retirement agreements with the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
• employment in an Inclusive Working Life corporation
• attractive
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