Scholarship Details: Three PhD positions within Nordic Literature, English Literature and Comparative Literature are vacant in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) and the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN). The appointment is for a period of 3 years and the doctoral thesis is expected to be completed within the [...]

Scholarship Details: The candidate who is accepted must participate in the Faculty of Humanities’ researcher education program (cf. regulations and supplementary provisions for the faculty’s researcher education) and must also engage in the designated research activities on a 100 percent basis. The designated aim of the project is to complete a doctoral dissertation to be [...]

Scholarship Details: The person appointed will be affiliated with the Faculty’s organized research training. The academic work must result in a doctoral thesis that will be defended at the Faculty with a view to obtaining the degree of PhD. The successful candidate is expected to join the existing research milieu or network and contribute to [...]

Scholarship Details: The person appointed will be affiliated with the Faculty’s organized research training. The academic work must result in a doctoral thesis that will be defended at the Faculty with a view to obtaining the degree of PhD. The successful candidate is expected to join the existing research milieu or network and contribute to [...]

Scholarship Details: The PhD fellow shall in her/his own research have a focus on the relationships between sonic features and body motion in performance and listening situations, and shall in her/his research make use of both qualitative/descriptive and quantitative/technology-assisted methods. The appointment is for a period of 3 years and the doctoral thesis is expected [...]

Scholarship Details: The Department conducts research, teaching and dissemination within political science. About 1,000 students are currently enrolled in bachelor’s, master’s and PhD study programs in political science. The department is also responsible for interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree programs in International Studies, European Studies, and Public Administration and Leadership, as well as a master’s degree program [...]

Scholarship Details: This fellowship is associated with a new national initiative to create a computational research infrastructure for the increased application of Natural Language Processing in the humanities and social sciences, in connection to the pan-European CLARIN initiative. The fellowship will be based at the Language Technology Group (LTG) at IFI, whose main contribution to [...]

Scholarship Details: The position is within experimental geophysics, funded to accommodate competence generated by the PGP in the permanent part of the University organization. The successful applicant will be expected to participate in research teams within the general scope of research at the Department of Geosciences. Researcher (SKO 1109), pay grade: 57 – 65 (NOK [...]

Scholarship Details: A researcher is wanted to work on the project entitled ‘Development of nanobeads enclosing drugs that kill fish tuberculosis mycobacteria in a zebrafish model’ funded by the Norwegian Research Council’s FriMedBio program. At the University of Oslo selected person will work in the polymer chemistry group of Prof. Bo Nyström at the Department [...]

Scholarship Details: We seek a highly motivated enthusiastic individual for a PhD project that will investigate the collection of ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary at Spitsbergen. Approximately 15 skeletons, some prepared and several unprepared form the basis of the project. Various preparation techniques on the skeletons will be the basis for the laboratory work. Comparative [...]

Scholarship Details: We are looking for a PhD student to study mass changes and dynamics of Arctic glaciers and ice caps. The candidate will combine state-of-the-art remote sensing methods (ground-based, aerial, spaceborne; optical imagery, radar imagery, radar and lidar altimetry, gravimetry) with glacier physics (glacier mass changes, glacier dynamics, glacier calving) to better understand current [...]

Scholarship Details: The Quota Scheme was implemented by the Ministry of Education and Research in the autumn 1994 as a Norwegian Governmental Assistance Scheme to promote capacity building in the students’ home countries and encourage participation from these countries in the process of internationalization of higher education. The Quota Scheme covers living expenses while studying [...]

Scholarship Details: The University of Stavanger invites applications for one three-year doctorate scholarship in Information Technology at the Faculty of Science and Technology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering beginning September 1st, 2012. The title of the project is “Towards secure data storage and sharing in the cloud”. The position is funded by [...]

Scholarship Details: A Doctoral research fellowship (post code 1017) in Philosophy is available at the University of Oslo’s Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. The fellowship will be part of the research project “Personal Autonomy, Addiction and Mental Disorder”. The aim of the project is to examine how addiction impacts on the [...]

Scholarship Details: The position is part of an interdisciplinary project, CRYOMET, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, and is affiliated both with the Section for Physical Geography and the Section for Meteorology and Oceanography. The Section for Physical Geography has long-term experience in investigating the climate impact on the terrestrial cryosphere (snow, glaciers, permafrost) and [...]

Scholarship Details: The PhD position is within the vascular biology laboratory which has a long standing interest in the regulation of vascular processes by factors of the coagulation and fibrinolysis pathways. Recent emphasis is on the role of these factors in relation to inflammation in diseases such as atherosclerosis. This position will involve participation in [...]

Scholarship Details: The Biotechnology Centre at the University of Oslo is a centre for molecular biology, biotechnology and bioinformatics within the University of Oslo. The centre is devoted to research with an overall vision to address cell signaling mechanisms relevant to disease. The Functional Genomics and Molecular Imaging Laboratory is investigating amino acid transporters and [...]

Scholarship Details: Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent. When evaluating the application, emphasis will be given to applicant`s academic and personal abilities to carry out the project. Applicants may be called in for an interview. The purpose of the PhD Candidate is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

Scholarship Details: The candidate will be admitted to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. The proposed starting date for the fellowship is 1 July 2012 onwards. ARENA is a cross-disciplinary research centre [...]

Scholarship Details: The project focuses on studies of different redox-, radical- and metallo-proteins involved in oxygen activation and electron transport. This includes the proteins/protein systems of ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), nitric oxide synthase (NOS), catalase-peroxidase (KatG), cytochrome c and myoglobin. For these systems the combination of protein crystallography with different in-situ spectroscopic techniques as well as [...]

Scholarship Title: Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology Department of Civil and Transport Engineering PhD fellowships in Geotechnical Engineering Scholarship Details: The Faculty of Engineering Science and Technology at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) invites applicants for three Ph.D. fellowships within geotechnical engineering applied to foundation of offshore wind turbines. The positions [...]