Stillingstittel:
Postdoctor Global Governance for Sustainable Development

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.

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 global governance. The Post Doc candidate will be attached to SUM’s research area on Global Governance for Sustainable Development and linked to the Oslo Academy of Global Governance. The rationale and aims for the position are as follows:

Deficiencies and challenges in the way states cooperate when faced with international challenges are evident to us every day: in the lack of cooperation to reduce climate emissions; the spread of environmental problems such as water scarcity, soil erosion, loss of biodiversity and pollution; the failure to eradicate poverty and hunger; the difficulties in agreeing on a common strategy to combat health epidemics and in many other ways.

Global governance as a field of research studies authoritative norms, rules, institutions, and practices by means of which global affairs are managed in the absence of government. In this Post Doc, research should be undertaken that makes theoretical and empirical contributions to the field and that helps solving pressing challenges such as the ones listed above. Of particular interest will be projects that seek to address current changes resulting from the emergence of new types of actors and state actors from outside the “core power” including Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern and African countries.

The applicant must demonstrate substantial knowledge, a publication record and teaching experience grounded in research on global governance as emphasised above. Applicants are expected to submit a project proposal relevant to this topic.

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 positions at the University of Oslo can be viewed here:

http://www.uio.no/english/about/regulations/personnel/academic/guidelines-appointment-postdoc-researcher.html

Qualification and personal skills

• Candidates must hold a PhD degree or equivalent academic qualificati

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Centre for Develop

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse:
Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år