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The University of Agder invites applications for two full-time fixed-term appointments as PhD Research Fellows in Information Systems for a period of three years, alternatively four years with 25 % of the time assigned to tasks at the Faculty's discretion, at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Social Sciences. The positions are located in Kristiansand, Norway.

The Department of Information Systems is an active research environment, including six full professors, ten associate/assistant professors, and around twelve PhD research fellows and post docs. The department conducts research in several areas, with main emphasis on information systems for emergency management, e-health, e-government and benefits realization, and enterprise systems.

The applicants must qualify for admission to the PhD Programme Specialization in Information Systems, and must hold a master's degree in Information Systems or in equivalent fields.  

Further provisions relating to the positions as PhD Research Fellows can be found in the Regulations Concerning Terms and Conditions of Employment for the post of Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Research Assistant and Resident. 

The topic for the dissertation should be in one of the following areas: 

1) Information Systems for Emergency Management

Emergency Management and Crisis Response are increasingly supported by the use of information systems (IS) for situation awareness, coordination and decision-making. However, requirements for information systems in this context greatly differ from that in typical business contexts due to the ad-hoc nature of emergencies, possibly unrealiable infrastructure and the need for robustness. This position is affiliated with the Centre for Emergency Management (CIEM) at UiA, and should contribute to strengthen further CIEM's research on design and development of information systems support for emergency management. Examples of areas that could be focused include solutions for combined use of crowdsourced and sensor-based data for crisis response as well as novel utilization of mobile devices and apps for decision support in emergency management. More information on CIEM is available at http://ciem.uia.no.

2) E-health and care technology

E-health and care technology deal with issues related to improving health care with the use of ICT. It is a relatively young but growing application domain with strong practical and academic interest. The position will be closely linked to the NFR funded project TELMA. TELMA is a collaborative project involving the University of Agder, a health trust with three hospitals as well as several municipalities in Southern Norway. Due to the close cooperation with the project partners, applicants should master a Scandinavian language, preferably Norwegian. The main objective of the project is to establish a hub for telemedicine in the region and to facilitate the realization of different types of benefits from this hub. The doctoral project should focus on issues related to the realization of benefits from this eHealth effort.

Applicants must submit a project proposal with a scope within the abovementioned areas of priority. The project proposal should comprise a maximum of ten pages in length, including the reference list. The proposal must contain a preliminary presentation of the research questions, theoretical foundation, methodologica

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Agder

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Gimlemoen 25 4630 KRISTIANSAND S

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Vest-Agder

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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