Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in ERC-project “Private Law Firms as Transnational Advocates (PROBONO)”
Summary of PhD Program:
Two positions as PhD Research Fellow (SKO 1017) are available in the research project PROBONO. The project is funded by the European Research Council. The two research fellows will work together with the Principal Investigator (PI) of PROBONO, Professor Nina Reiners, and the PROBONO team at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR), a multidisciplinary department at the Faculty of Law. The period of appointment runs for three years without teaching duties, or upon agreement, four years with teaching duties constituting 25% of the overall workload.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology/Human Geography and Organizational Theory
Summary of PhD Program:
There is a vacant position at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography for a research fellow (SKO 1017) in sociology/human geography and organizational theory. The position is for a period of four years with 25% compulsory work (primarily teaching). The candidate will be expected to contribute to the Master’s programme Organization, Leadership and Work (OLA) at the Department. The department is ranked as the premier academic research institute in sociology and human geography in Norway, conducting top international research while offering high quality education for students. The department is renowned both for the breadth of topics and methodologies employed and for its highly qualified researchers.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Machine Learning and Distributed Data Processing
Summary of PhD Program:
The advertised PhD position focuses on developing ML-based and distributed data processing approaches to address issues of incomplete or redundant multimodal data, dynamic updates, and scalable semantic interoperability in large-scale DPP systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on Representation Learning techniques, Transformer-based architectures, Large Language Models (LLMs), Natural Language Processing (NLP), etc. The research will also explore distributed data processing frameworks to ensure robustness, interoperability and scalability in DPP-based information systems.
Application Deadline: 25th September 2025
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants should have research interests that resonate with ongoing research at the department. We currently have strong research communities in the fields of urban studies, sustainable transformations, work, organisations and politics, social inequality, migration, integration and diversity, cultural and political participation, population dynamics. Human geographers are also engaged in economic and political geography. The call is not thematically limited to these topics, but preference can be given to candidates with projects that align with the department’s supervisory capacity.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education focusing on Collaborative Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project should overall contribute to a better understanding collaborative learning in higher education work context. The candidate is expected to conduct empirical studies and analyses of rich datasets, and in particular, interaction data, with a focus on examination of collaborative learning processes and practices. The PhD position can be connected to ongoing projects with a focus on collaborative learning and practice (especially, TeamLearn or CORPUS), and make use of projects’ datasets. The project description is expected to elaborate on the research problem of the prospective PhD project, how it is embedded in the research literature and which theoretical perspectives as well as methodologies are considered. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact the listed contact persons for further information.
Application Deadline: 10th September 2025
6. 1-2 Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
There are 1-2 vacant positions at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography for research fellows (SKO 1017) in sociology. The positions are for a period of three years without compulsory work or four years with 25% compulsory work (primarily teaching). The department is ranked as the premier academic research institute in sociology in Norway, conducting top international research while offering high quality education for students. The department is renowned both for the breadth of topics and methodologies employed and for its highly qualified researchers.