Stillingstittel: Post Doc (2016/1535)

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.2016/1535 Post Doc 'Consumption, Development and Sustainability'

The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo is inviting applications for a three-year Post Doc position.

SUM is an international research institution at the University of Oslo with a well-established track record of undertaking critical, independent and high quality interdisciplinary and policy-related research on the challenges and dilemmas posed by sustainable development.

SUM’s current research is anchored in four thematic research areas:

• Poverty and Development• Energy and Consumption• Culture, Ethics and Sustainability• Global Governance for Sustainable Development

SUM is primarily a research institution, but also offers PhD courses and an International Masters in Development, Environment and Cultural Change. The Centre has the status of Research School specialising in educating scholars interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on development and the environment.

Job description

In this call we invite applicants working on consumption, development and sustainability. The Post Doc candidate will be attached to SUM research area on Energy and Consumption. The rationale and aims for the position are as follows:

Research and theory on consumption and its sustainability implications have mainly been focused on consumption in the rich countries of the North, where the politics of consumption has been embedded in the economics of growth and where increasing consumption of both materials and energy is contributing to a number of serious environmental dilemmas, including climate change. Carbon is being emitted from everyday practices such as transport, eating, shopping, heating, cooling, cleaning and refrigeration. Over the past decade, growing middle classes in Asia, South America and parts of Africa are increasing their consumption, embedded in economies that encourage consumption as part of a growth strategy. In mainstream development research, where the traditional focus has been on social, economic and human development, inadequate attention has been given to the rapid rise of the global consumer class and its implications for social and environmental sustainability, either globally or within individual ‘emerging economies’. There is an acute need for research that is capable of theorizing and developing the sustainability implications of the changing relationship between consumption and development. This will demand an integrative, cross-disciplinary approach to the theories, practices and policies of development, consumption and sustainability. SUM intends to be at the forefront of developments in the new emerging research field. The Post Doc will contribute to this effort.

The applicant must demonstrate substantial knowledge, a publication record and teaching experience grounded in research at the interface of development, consumption and sustainability. Applicants are expected to submit a project proposal relevant to these topics.

The main objective of appointment to the position of post-doctoral fellow is to qualify researchers for work in top academic positions within their respective areas of study.

We are seeking highly motivated and competent candidates who are willing and able to participate actively in the research community at the Centre. The successful candidate will be expected to publish articles in recognized international journals.

The appointment applies for a three-year period. The guidelines concerning appointment to post-doctoral and research fellowship

Minstelønn: 0

Maksimal lønn: 0

Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse:
Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år