Doctoral Research Fellowship, Archive, Library and Museum Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Posted September 27, 2018
One Doctoral Research Fellowship (PhD) within Media and Documentation Studies/Archive, Library and Museum Studies is available in the Department of Language and Culture at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (UiT). The Research Fellow will be a member of the research group ALMPUB-Trg (Tromsø research group) and a participant in the research project The ALM-field, digitalization and the public sphere (ALMPUB).
The appointment is a fixed term position for four years.
The purpose of the PhD Research Fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a doctoral dissertation to be defended publicly. The candidate will be affiliated with the Faculty’s organised research training, and the academic work must result in a doctoral thesis aiming to obtain the degree of PhD within the period of employment. Admission to a PhD programme is a prerequisite for employment, and the programme period starts on commencement of the position.
The successful candidate must meet the requirements for admission to the Faculty’s PhD program, cf. § 6 of UiT PhD regulations. Moreover, the applicant must prove English language proficiency equivalent to the standards of Norwegian Higher Education Entrance Qualification, see PhD Regulations UiT.
For more information, see also uit.no/hsl/phd.
For further information about the position (and the project), please contact Professor Andreas Vårheim, phone +47 – 77 64 57 39, e-mail: [email protected]
or the Head of Department of Language and Culture Eystein Dahl, phone +47 77 64 42 90, e-mail: [email protected].
Affiliation
The position is affiliated with the Department of Language and Culture (ISK). The Department consists of 75 permanent employees, 10 adjunct professors, and approximately 30 PhD fellows. Additionally, the Department has approximately 25 temporary research and teaching positions. The Department’s core activities are research, teaching, and dissemination within linguistics, literature, art history, and media and documentation studies.
The Department has a very active and diverse research profile. It houses one of the world’s most excellent research communities in linguistics, with research groups within cognitive linguistics (CLEAR), Sami language technology (Giellatekno and Divvun), sociolinguistics (LAIDUA), language acquisition (LAVA), and theoretical linguistics (CASTL-FISH). The Department’s research communities within literature, art history, and media and documentation studies are nationally highly competitive, and are organised into research groups such as Health Art Society (HAS), Russian Space, and WARGAME.
ISK offers one-year programme education, Bachelor, and Master programmes within general linguistics, literature, art history, media and documentation studies, English, French, Kven, Finnish, Norwegian, Russian, Sami, Spanish, and German. It also offers PhD education within cultural/literary studies, art history, media and documentation studies, and linguistics.
The research fellowship is within the Programme for Media and Documentation studies and the research group ALMPUB-Trg. Trg is one of several partners participating in the international research project ALMPUB unded by the Research Council of Norway. The partners include Norwegian, Nordic, German, Swiss, Hungarian, and U.S. universities. In ALMPUB-Trg, we focus on how public libraries, museums, archives and Sami documentation centres develop and implement new strategies, models of cooperation, working methods, and activities when faced with digitisation and digitisation processes influencing their work and the daily lives of users. Our emphasis is dual: We study how ALM institutions use and develop digital technology in their mediation work, and how the institutions contribute to community development in the digital age.
The appointed Doctoral Research Fellowship must have her/his daily workplace at the UiT, campus Tromsø.
The position’s field of research/research project
The Research Fellowship is directed towards ALM institutions and change processes related to digitisation. Projects studying how these processes unfold in local public libraries, archives, museums, and Sami documentation centres are of particular interest. In this area of research few studies have been conducted, and we welcome intensive case studies. Comparative projects across institutional types, local communities, cultures, ethnic groups or nation states are encouraged. Comparative projects involving North American cases are seen as fruitful for research into the four types of institutions.
A 6-12 months stay at a university abroad is encouraged.
Qualification requirements
The position requires a Master`s degree in Documentation Studies, Library and Information Science or a related discipline. Applicants with a Master’s degree in Political Science, Sociology, and Social Anthropology or related disciplines can be considered. The grade B or better in the Norwegian grading system for the Master’s thesis, is required. Foreign degrees recognised as equivalent to a Norwegian Master`s degree will be considered.
In addition, he/she must be able to document proficiency in English equivalent to Norwegian Higher Education Entrance Qualification, refer to the website about PhD regulations at UiT.
Personal suitability will be emphasised.
Working conditions
The normal period of employment is four years. The nominal length of the PhD programme is three years. The fourth year, distributed as 25 % of each year, is reserved for teaching or other academic duties within the university. Please consult PhD Regulations UiT for further information.
The position will especially be assigned teaching duties within Media and Documentation Studies.
A shorter period of appointment may be decided upon if the applicant has already completed parts of his/her research training programme or if the appointment is based on a previous qualifying position (PhD Candidate, research assistant, or the like) in such a way that the research training amounts to a total of three years.
Remuneration for the position of PhD Candidate is in accordance with the State salary scale
code 1017. A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted.
Application
The application must be submitted electronically via the application form available on www.jobbnorge.no.
Applications by e-mail are not accepted.
The application must include the following attachments:
- letter of application
- project description. Please see further information concerning the template for project description
- CV (containing a complete overview of education, supervised professional training and professional work)
- diploma and transcript of records from Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- diploma and transcript of records from Master’s degree or equivalent
- diploma supplement for other completed degrees
- documentation of English language proficiency
- list of 2-3 academic referees, including contact details (name, relation to applicant, e-mail address and phone number)
- Master`s Thesis
- other works (published or unpublished) which the applicant wishes to be taken into consideration during the assessment process and a description of these.
The list of works should contain the following information:
- author(s), title of work
- for articles: the name of the journal and volume, first and last page of the article, year of publication
- for book or other independent publications: publisher, place of print, year of publication, number of pages
All documentation must be certified and translated into English or a Scandinavian language in order to be assessed.
Information and material to be considered during the assessment must be submitted within the stipulated deadline.
Assessment
The applicants will be assessed by an expert committee. During this assessment process, emphasis will be attached to the applicant’s potential for research as shown by:
- Master’s Thesis or equivalent
- other academic works, and
- project description
In addition, consideration may be given to work experience or other activities of significance for the implementation of the PhD research. This includes teaching education, teaching experience, experience from popularisation and experience/education from other types of dissemination.
The best qualified applicants will be selected for interviews. The interview shall among other things aim to clarify the applicant’s personal suitability for the position.
Other information
Applicants shall also refer to the supplementary regulations concerning terms and conditions of employment for the position of postdoctor, research fellow and research assistant at UiT
Questions concerning the organisation of the working environment, such as the physical state of the place of employment, health service, possibility for flexible working hours, part time, etc. as well as questions about the PhD programme may be directed to the telephone reference in this announcement.
UiT’s HR policy objectives emphasise diversity, and encourages all qualified applicants to apply regardless of gender, functional ability and national or ethnic background.
UiT is an IW (Inclusive Workplace) enterprise, and will make the necessary adaptations in order to facilitate for employees with reduced functional ability.
Personal data given in an application or CV will be processed in accordance with the Act relating to the processing of personal data (the Personal Data Act). In accordance with Section 25 subsection 2 of the Freedom of Information Act, the applicant may request not to be registered on the public list of applicants. However, the University may nevertheless decide to publish the applicant’s name. The applicant will receive advance notification in the event of such publication.
In case of discrepancies between the Norwegian and the English version of this description, the Norwegian version takes precedence.
We are looking forward to receiving your application.
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