Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? University of 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. Fully Funded PhD Position in language, literacy and mathematical development
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow is expected to pursue quantitative research in line with the aims of CREATE’s research strand 2: 1) to develop and examine effects from reliable, durable, and educationally meaningful interventions addressing the barriers to equality in skill development, and 2) to design theoretically oriented experiments to examine the causal mechanisms that operate in interventions.
CREATE focuses on oral language, literacy (reading and writing), and mathematics as fundamental skills critical to educational success. To achieve the above aims, the PhD fellow is expected to work on existing longitudinal data as well as participate in the development and execution of new experiments and intervention studies. As part of the work on the intervention studies, the PhD fellow is expected to contribute to the administration and implementation, including the development of assessment tools and intervention materials and the coordination of research assistants.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in language, literacy and mathematical development
Summary of PhD Program:
CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective to generate novel knowledge about how to reduce inequalities in education, see web site. The interdisciplinary centre integrates researchers with substantive expertise from education, psychology, sociology, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The PhD fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 1 «Identifying the barriers to equality in education».
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Political Science is recruiting 1 – 3 PhD Research Fellows (SKO 1017). We invite applications from excellent candidates in all sub-fields of political science, including public policy and administration, comparative politics, political theory, international relations and research methods. The appointment is for a fixed, non-tenured term of 4 years, and has a 25% teaching component. The Department teaches in all the sub-fields mentioned above, and directs study programmes in Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Studies and Public Administration and Leadership.
Application Deadline: 1st September 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Political Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The main objective of ACCELZ is to enhance our understanding of how states can design public organizations, practices, and policies, to accelerate climate action towards net-zero emissions. Drawing on a mix of political science methods, in combination with quantitative analysis of emission trends, ACCELZ will specify the relative importance of the state in acceleration processes. ACCELZ aim to capture and explain cross-country differences in how climate governance is organized within the state apparatus. The larger project is transdisciplinary, but the PhD project is in political science. ACCELZ combines quantitative and qualitative methods. The PhD Fellow shall primarily contribute to comparative case studies, primarily Norway, Denmark and Sweden, but may also contribute to other parts of the project.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social anthropology
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applicants to develop PhD projects on the anthropology of human security in Africa in a broad sense. In particular, we encourage projects that innovatively connect health challenges (e.g., epidemics of non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, mental health and child development issues; emerging viral diseases in humans and animals; or re-emerging infectious diseases like malaria and sleeping sickness), and changing natural environments (shaped by e.g. toxic pollution of air, water, soil or food; urbanization, industry, mining and farming; or changing vegetation and biodiversity, rainfall, and temperatures). Examples for such human-made environment-disease constellations could be as diverse as: insecticides in agriculture or disease control; extractive industries or air pollution, antibiotic resistance or the spread of disease vectors.
Application Deadline: 1st October 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Intelligent Dynamic Energy Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The chosen PhD research fellow will be part of the IDES (Intelligent Dynamic Energy Systems) project. IDES is a collaboration between the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), The Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) and The Department of Technology Systems (ITS) at the University of Oslo; all located at Kjeller, outside Oslo. Energy systems are currently designed to bring energy to end-users in the most cost-efficient and clean way. Generally, they consist of a series of subsystems that include energy production, transportation/storage, supply, and utilization, as well as procedures to obtain the best results out of the system.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in tandem solar cell materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is co-funded by UiO:Energy and environment and FME SuSolTech (Centre for renewable energy in sustainable solar cell technology). As part of FME Susoltech, you will attend conferences and seminars with solar cell researchers and industry partners from all parts of Norway. You will be part of the semiconductor physics group LENS (Light and Electricity from Novel Semiconductors) with around 30 highly dedicated professors, researchers, postdocs, PhD Research Fellows, engineers, administrators and master students.
Application Deadline: 8th August 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sociology
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek candidates with the potential to contribute to the development of sociology as a discipline in the department. The fellows are expected to pursue independent research under supervision, as outlined in their submitted project proposals. We value the contribution of young scholars to the academic environment and study programmes in the department, and encourage candidates with a desire to participate actively in departmental life to apply.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Inequalities in Education
Summary of PhD Program:
CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective to generate novel knowledge about how to reduce inequalities in education, see web site. The interdisciplinary centre integrates researchers with substantive expertise from education, psychology, sociology, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The PhD fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 1 «Identifying the barriers to equality in education».
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in human geography
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD fellow will be part of Include – a research centre for socially inclusive energy transitions – and the work package Energy Flows and Spaces. This work package investigates policies for energy transitions and decarbonisation within urban and regional planning and development. We focus on processes of social inclusion in design, planning and development of low carbon and energy smart urban/regional landscapes (i.e. compact city development and densification strategies). We also focus on the outcome of social inclusion/exclusion in terms of access to environmentally friendly energy and transport (i.e. public transport), and exposure to energy-related negative externalities (i.e. pollution).
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Human Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
We seek candidates with the potential to contribute to the development of human geography as a discipline in the department. The fellows are expected to pursue independent research under supervision, as outlined in the submitted project proposal. We value the contribution of young scholars to the academic environment and study programmes in the department, and encourage candidates with a desire to participate actively in departmental life to apply.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in geology and geochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The Oslo Rift contains marine black shales deposited during anoxic conditions in the Cambrian and Early Ordovician. The shales are enriched in organic matter, sulfur and a range of heavy metals. During weathering, the sulfides oxidize and metals are released to the environment. For these reasons, the shales represent a major environmental problem during construction work such as tunnels and roads. This project aims at understanding how the shale mineralogy, background maturation and metamorphism influence the reactivity, weathering and the metal release. We will combine fieldwork on natural exposures with drill cores and road sections. The candidate will get experience with fieldwork, mapping, geochemistry of rocks and water, thermodynamic modelling, and petrography.
Application Deadline: 16th August 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Summary of PhD Program:
Access to fresh water is the foundation for life on Earth that poses severe restrictions and requirements for life in regions that contend with water scarcity, a problem that will increase in the future with the growing effects of climate change. Water scarcity is not longer a distant problem. In 2022 Europe has been hit by a severe drought impacting agriculture and energy production. A fog net is a low cost, efficient and simple technology for harvesting water from the atmosphere.
The goal of this sustainability oriented project is to develop a new understanding of the fundamental fluid mechanics on and through fog nets to devise new designs to optimize their water yield. The planned work is experimental, to be performed in our lab facilities, and is also expected to involve theoretical models of the complex flow. Field work is planned together with a non-profit organization in Morocco to give ways to test the concepts developed in the projects and there will be opportunities to work with international collaborators.
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in European Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
ARENA Centre for European Studies is a multidisciplinary research centre at the University of Oslo, studying the direction, dynamics and sustainability of the evolving European political order. The Centre has conducted research on political, economic, legal and social integration, transformation and cooperation in Europe since 1994. As a member of the ARENA team, you will be part of a professional research centre with extensive experience in coordinating international research projects and networks financed by European and Norwegian research funding institutions.
Application Deadline: 28th August 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Measurement
Summary of PhD Program:
CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective to generate novel knowledge about how to reduce inequalities in education, see web site. The interdisciplinary centre integrates researchers with substantive expertise from education, psychology, sociology, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The PhD fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 3 «Addressing key methodological challenges».
Application Deadline: 1st August 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in HEDWORK
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants are invited for a four-year position as PhD Research Fellow, based at the Department of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Oslo. The position is within the thematic area of teaching, learning and study design in higher education, with a specific focus on the investigation of the master`s thesis as element of this design. The PhD position will contribute to a Nordic collaborative research initiative that investigates the complex knowledge processes linked to a series of different learning activities that students engage in regarding their master’s thesis (e.g. response groups, project seminars, supervision, use of digital tools).
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in CLEG
Summary of PhD Program:
Applicants are invited for a 4-year position as PhD Research Fellow in the area of Curriculum Studies and Didactics to be based at the Department of Education, University of Oslo. Democracy, participation and sustainability are keywords that address global, national and local challenges. Public education is expected to play an active role in responding to these challenges. Simultaneously, international organizations, stakeholders and interest groups offer different solutions and pose different future narratives for how to handle these challenges. Within this context, national curricula and support structures are seen as devices that can govern education in appropriate ways.
Application Deadline: 31st August 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Criminology or Sociology of Law
Summary of PhD Program:
One PhD fellowship or Postdoctoral fellowship is available to undertake research as part of the project “Promoting Justice in a Time of Friction: Scandinavian Penal Exports” (JustExports). The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The candidate will work closely together with project leader Professor Kjersti Lohne at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law. The candidate will be able to work on cutting-edge research topics and get access to an international and interdisciplinary network of high expertise. The candidate has the possibility to conduct long-term fieldwork and to go on research stays abroad.
Application Deadline: 14th August 2023
19. 04 Fully Funded PhD Position in Law
Summary of PhD Program:
Up to 4 PhD Fellowships in Law available at the Faculty of Law. The Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo is the largest legal academic research community in Norway. The objective of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree. The candidate must be qualified for admission to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Law.
Application Deadline: 15th September 2023
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mental Health Inequalities
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is funded through two grants from the Research Council of Norway for the projects “Pathways into Marginalization. A 28-Year Longitudinal Study from Adolescence to Middle Adulthood” and “The Social Gradient in Mental Health. A Long-Term Longitudinal Study Integrating Survey Data, Register Data, and Molecular Genetic Data”. The projects utilize data from a large scale, longitudinal study spanning from adolescence over three decades and which combines survey, register, and molecular genetic data. Moreover, two other large-scale representative samples of Norwegian adolescents will be used.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Science Genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
One PhD fellowship is available at the PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo. The PhD fellow will be working in the project Early Life SocioEconomic status, mental health, and educational performance: an evaluation of sensitivity to the environment (ELiSE) funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN). There are long traditions in studying either neighborhood factors, parental factors, or genetic factors for children’s mental health and educational performance. The ELiSE project will address the impact of early life socioeconomic factors for mental health and educational success, while evaluating theories for children’s individual sensitivity to household, school, and community environments.
Application Deadline: 10th August 2023
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Social Anthropology
Summary of PhD Program:
Amber is a fossil resin secreted by plants between 300 and 16 million years ago, mostly during phases of climate breakdown and ecological crises. Today, geologists and palaeontologists believe that the study of amber specimens can help us answering key questions about the planet’s climatic history, and understanding how and why species adapted, or failed to adapt, during previous phases of mass extinction. Amber is also a well-known and sought-after organic gemstone, fuelling violent mining economies from Myanmar to Russia, Ukraine, and Mexico, and constitutes a global market increasingly driven by Chinese demand. Amber thus offers a privileged entry point to interrogate the current moment characterised by growing extractivism, trade, environmental crises, and conflict. And it is a compelling lens through which we can address some of the key empirical and theoretical challenges posed by the Anthropocene.
Application Deadline: 3rd September 2023
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Musical Rhythm and Groove
Summary of PhD Program:
RITMO is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. This interdisciplinary centre focuses on rhythm as a structuring mechanism for the temporal dimensions of human life. Methods from musicology, psychology, neuroscience, and informatics are combined to study rhythm as a fundamental property that shapes and underpins human cognition, behaviour and cultural expressions.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy of Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to challenge (but also to build on) existing accounts of explanation in philosophy of biology and life sciences, such as current accounts of genetic causation as well as mechanist and interventionist ideas of explanation. It is also a central goal to explicate how several explanatory frameworks, such as for example biophysics and molecular biology, may compete and/or integrate from the viewpoint of self-assembly processes. The project aims at building bridges between mechanist and organicist views of life, to provide new answers to questions of scientific explanation, the relation between scales and levels of explanation, and ultimately to the question of how to understand life itself.
Application Deadline: 15th August 2023
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology
Summary of PhD Program:
The project is now looking for a PhD fellow, who will study the surplus production of whetstone in Eidsborg. The aim is to shed light on the large-scale production and trade in the Viking Age and to explore the actors involved. The main approach will be to systematize and synthetize existing archaeological data from excavations, surveys, and research projects. In addition, the project will expand data and knowledge through new research and small-scale archaeological excavations, as well as analyses of proxy data, namely lake sediment analysis and rock face luminescence dating. We invite applicants to write project descriptions which activates this material in novel ways, aimed at producing new knowledge that will benefit Viking Age research more broadly.
Application Deadline: 14th August 2023
26. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multilingualism – “SPEAKERS”
Summary of PhD Program:
A Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) OR a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) in Multilingualism is available at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo. The Fellowship is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and is associated with the project Indigenous Language Resilience: From learners to speakers (SPEAKERS). The candidate is expected to propose a research project closely connected to the main project.
