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Doctoral Research Fellowship in Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway

/ August 22, 2010 Leave a Comment

The Faculty has approximately 130 Ph.D. students divided into seven departments and one center:
• Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History
• Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages
• Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
• Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
• Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
• Department of Media and Communication
• Department of Musicology
• Centre for Ibsen Studies
The advertised positions are open for all research fields at the Faculty of Humanities. In the actual processing of the applications, however, strategic considerations may be applied in the selection process, such as imminent need for recruitment within certain disciplines or subjects. Applicants who have recently graduated with excellent results may also be given preference.
The person who is appointed will be enrolled in the Faculty’s organised researcher training. The academic study will terminate in a doctoral thesis which will be defended at the Faculty, leading to a Ph.D.-degree. The successful candidate is expected to contribute into a research group or network, and for a professional development in the environment.

The appointment is for a duration of 3 years. Any previous employment as a research fellow or appointment to another position will in whole or in part be deducted from the appointment time.

Qualifications and personal skills:
In assessing the applications, special emphasis will be placed on the quality of the project description and on the assumed academic and personal ability on the part of the candidates to complete the dissertation within the given time frame. The short-listed candidates may be called for an interview at the University of Oslo.

Qualifications:
A Master degree or equivalent in an area relevant to the topic of the doctoral dissertation. The masters degree or equivalent has to be achieved by the time of application.

We offer:
• Pay grade 48-55 (NOK 383 900 – 433 400 per year), depending on qualifications
• Academically stimulating working environment
• Good pension benefits under the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund scheme
• Good welfare benefits

Submissions:
Applicants must submit the following attachments with the electronic application:
• letter of application
• list of publications
• Curriculum Vitae including grades
• project description, including a detailed progress plan for the project (maximum 5 pages, see Guidelines for project descriptions)
Applications that do not meet these requirements will not be considered.

Educational certificates, master theses and the like are not to be submitted with the application, but applicants may be asked to submit such information or works later.
See also Guidelines for pertaining to the application asessment process for doctoral research fellowships and About the doctoral degree/PhD at The faculty of Humanities.

Admission to the PhD  programme requires that faculty has the necessary supervision capacity.
The faculty has one PhD programme with seven PhD fields. The applicant must choose which field to be associated with. Selection of field determines which PhD committee will consider the application.

The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o.
The University of Oslo aims to achieve a balanced gender composition in the workforce and to recruit people with ethnic minority backgrounds.

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PhD Post in Musicology, University of Oslo, Norway

/ August 22, 2010 Leave a Comment

The position is available for a period of three years from January 2011.

The PhD fellowship is connected to the project Popular Music and Gender in a Transcultural context. The project is jointly funded by the Norwegian Research Council under the programme FRIHUM, and the University of Oslo, which will run from July 2010 through June 2014.

For more information please se the Department’s home page.

The main aim of this project is to consider the cultural construction of gender through popular music. The relevance of this project is to develop new theoretical insights into gendered performance, which will involve research within both a Norwegian and international context. While cultural and historical approaches will inform this project, the prime direction will be a reflective consideration of identity politics through critical musicology. Music’s visual representation is also of importance in this project, and audiovisual performativity constitutes a principal site for research attached to this post.

An important outcome of this project will be both the publication and mediation of research work in the field of popular music, with a specific emphasis on new perspectives within gender studies.

Requirements for applicants :

  • Applicants must hold a Master’s degree in Musicology.

Qualifications and personal skills:

  • We are interested in projects of high quality of an innovative nature, which demonstrates an excellent grasp of the theoretical and methodological approaches within the field of popular musicology.
  • In assessing the applications, special emphasis will be placed on the quality of the project proposal as much as an assessment of the candidate’s ability to complete the dissertation within the given time frame. Candidates short-listed for this post will be called for an interview.

Please also refer to the rules for appointments to recruitment posts:

Submissions:

Applicants must submit the following attachments with the electronic application:

  • letter of application
  • Curriculum Vitae including grades
  • a possible list of published and unpublished works
  • project description, including a detailed progress plan for the project (maximum 5 pages, see Guidelines for project descriptions)

Educational certificates, master theses and the like are not to be submitted with the application, but applicants may be asked to submit such information or works later.

See also Guidelines for appointments to research fellowships at the Faculty of Humanities.

Application Deadline: August 31, 2010

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PhD Research Fellowship in Medical Instrumentation and Imaging for a Preclinical PET Scanner for International Students, Norway

/ August 22, 2010 Leave a Comment

The candidate for this position is expected to participate in the development of COMPET, a preclinical PET scanner with a novel concept for 3D event reconstruction and MRI compatibility. The detector technology is based on LYSO crystals, Wave Length Shifting (WLS) strips, and SiPM / MPPC-readout.  For the readout of the detector high speed FPGAs are used connected with an Ethernet interface to the computer farm. The project covers the assembly of the scintillators and the WLS in the detector, design and test of analog and digital hardware, FPGA firmware, programming and testing of readout and analysis software image reconstruction algorithms and detector simulation.

Requirements:

Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in physics is required. Applicants that are close to completion of their Master degree can apply, but the committee is free to reject the application if the final Master degree is not completed in time for the committee’s decision.

The applicants should document their experience and expertise within the areas mentioned, and also their general experience within development of detectors for particle-, astro-, medical- or nuclear physics. The subject of the candidate’s master degree is expected to be closely related to one or more of the above mentioned research areas. Experience with lab work, programming (VHDL, Verilog, C/C++, Python, Cuda, LabView, root), image reconstruction, data analysis or Monte Carlo simulations (Gate) is an advantage.

In addition the applicants may submit a project proposal for the qualifying work during the program. The project proposal should include research topic, main issues, as well as choice of theory and method.

The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

The fellowship requires admission to the research training programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. An approved plan for the research training, including a  project outline, must be submitteed no later than two months after taking up the position. For more information see:

A good command of English is required of all students attending the University of Oslo.

The application must  include:

  • Application letter
  • CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work – scientific publications)
  • Copies of educational certificates, transcript of records and letters of recommendation
  • List of publications and academic work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee
  • Names and contact details of 2-3 references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and telephone number)

Foreign applicants are advised to attach an explanation of their University’s grading system. Please remember that all documents should be in English or a Scandinavian language.

Closing date for applications: 15 August, 2010

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