Stillingstittel:
PhD scholarship in school-based interventions to improve public health in low- and middle-income countries - Ref.no 16/01156

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

 

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

 

Further information about NMBU is available on www.nmbu.no

Jobbnorge ID: 123126

A scholarship is vacant at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Section for Public Health Science, for a three-year PhD project within the field of global health promotion.

 

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning has its main activities within public health science, urban and regional planning, law and property and landscape architecture. The institute has 700 students, 80 employees, and a research school with 25 PhDs. The project and position is connected to the Section for Public Health Science.

 

 

Main tasks/ Research Project

The Section for Public Health Science at NMBU wishes to strengthen its research activity within the field of global health promotion. Applications are invited for the position as PhD student with a special interest in research on the development, implementation and evaluation of global health promotion interventions.

 

In particular, this position is expected to contribute to advancing a school and community-based participatory action research project aimed to develop locally sustainable strategies to improve water, sanitation and hygiene in resource-constrained settings.  Project SHINE (Sanitation and Hygiene INnovation in Education) is an intervention that focuses on the application of participatory science and social entrepreneurship-based approaches to involve youth and communities in the development of culturally appropriate sanitation and hygiene health promotion strategies.  The intervention was piloted in rural Tanzania in partnership with the University of Calgary in Canada and the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania in 2014/2015.  There is now an opportunity to adapt and pilot the intervention in India.

 

The PhD candidate is expected to play a key role with respect to advancing the theory and practice that informs the intervention. Depending on the candidate's background and interests, potential research questions could focus on either: 1) the implementation of the intervention or 2) the evaluation of the intervention. 

Research questions focused on implementation could for instance investigate the development and application of a framework for the adaptation of the intervention to the Indian context.   Research questions focused on understanding the local context in relation to sanitation, hygiene and health could involve GIS mapping to investigate availability, type and utilization of sanitation facilities in relation to diarrheal incidence. 

A rigorous process evaluation of the intervention is also a potential area of focus to help understand how the intervention is delivered and perceived by participants, and how aspects of t

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige unive

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Postboks 5003 1432 ÅS

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

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Lønn periode: Pr. år