Stillingstittel: Researcher in Innovation Studies (2016/6631)

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.

Job Description

The TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture invites applications to a three-year full-time position as Researcher in Innovation Studies (SKO 1109) with an expected starting date in fall 2016 or early 2017.

The successful candidate will be working full-time on a new externally-funded project entitled "Responsible Innovation and Happiness: A New Approach to the Effects of ICTs". This new interdisciplinary project is funded by the Research Council of Norway, and it is coordinated by TIK. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have in the last few decades transformed substantially several aspects of our everyday life. This project intends to develop a brand new line of research in the innovation and well-being literatures and investigate the complex and multifaceted impacts of ICTs on individuals' well-being. This project will develop a new approach to study the effects of ICTs on happiness, and carry out a set of conceptual and empirical studies on the socio-economic effects of ICTs, considering positive impacts as well as potential risks. For interested applicants, the project description is available on the project's webpage.

The recruited researcher will work in a multidisciplinary project team. The candidate is expected to do research work of relevance to the project including data collection (survey data, statistical data, experimental data), literature reviews, empirical analyses and theoretical modelling work. The themes of the candidate's scientific work must have strong relevance for and be closely related to the research project on Responsible Innovation, ICTs and Happiness.

Further, the researcher is expected to contribute to the on-going work of building, sustaining and leading the TIK Centre's research and teaching environment, and will be affiliated with TIK's group of innovation studies. Innovation studies at TIK has three focal areas: macro level studies linking innovation with national and regional economic performance, meso level studies of innovation systems with an emphasis on energy and natural resources, and micro level investigations of how innovation processes take place in networks, organisations and firms. The research group has a strong track record in scientific publishing and close ties to many internationally leading innovation research units. TIK is also coordinator of a new centre for research on the impact of science (OSIRIS), and a member of the Norwegian Research School in Innovation Studies (NORSI) and the international network EU-SPRI.

Requirements, Desired Qualifications and Personal Skills

• PhD within Innovation Studies, or other fields of social sciences relevant for this interdisciplinary project (e.g. economics, management studies, psychology).
• In-depth theoretical knowledge of and empirical work within Innovation Studies as well as other fields of research that relevant for this interdisciplinary project; strong documented research competence, academic qualifications and production within these fields; strong record of international peer-reviewed publications, particularly within the past five years.
• Documented dissemination skills and an ability to take active part in communication and dissemination activities.
• Documented ability to acquire external research funding, particularly long-term academic funding from national and international sources.
• Collaborative skills; ability to build national and int
  
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  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Faculty of Social
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse:
  Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
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  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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