PhD-fellowship in Quantitative Social Science on Family Participation and Fertility among Men

About the position

We invite applicants for a three- to four-year position as a PhD research fellow at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo. The position is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project “Health, Cognition, Family, and Employment among Men (HOMME)".

HOMME studies how men's changing family and working lives - two central domains of adult life - influence their health and cognition. Within this project, the successful candidate will be able to develop a research agenda focusing on health effects of men's participation in the family and drivers of the greater diversity in men's fertility and family experiences. The candidate will make use of a rich linkage of register data on the whole Norwegian population and larger health studies, and may include research on how gender roles, parental leave, and traditional values in communities influence men's life outcomes.

Project description

The PhD candidate will be part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers with backgrounds in demography, sociology, psychology, economics and health sciences. He or she will work closely with researchers at other institutions, especially the Norwegian Institute of Public Health where the candidate will be offered part-time placement, and there are opportunities for collaboration and exchanges with international project partners in Europe and North America. 

The appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years. The employment period can be considered to be up to 4 years given addition of teaching and administrative duties (up to 25 %), depending on the competence of the successful applicant and the needs of the department.

The HUP Section conducts research and provides education in health, developmental, and personality psychology across various academic programs. The section has around 40 national and international staff members, including a dozen permanent university lecturer, associate professors and professors, with about half being women. It also includes around two dozen PhD students, Post-Doctoral and Research Fellows, and Associate Professors II.

Read more about HUP section at: https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/about/organization/sections/hup/index.html (https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/about/organization/sections/hup/index.html) 

What skills are important in this role?

You must have:

• To be admitted to the PhD programs at the University of 
  Oslo, the candidate must have completed a Master's degree (120 ECTS) or equivalent in in Demography, Economics, Sociology, Health Economics, Psychology, or other relevant field of study. Grade point average of A or B on the ECTS scale in their Master's degree. Applicants with a grade point of C may be evaluated on an individual basis. 
• To be employed as a PhD Research Fellow, admission to a 
  doctoral program is required, or there must be a binding agreement for admission. Normally, one must apply for admission 
  to a Ph.D. program within 3 months after the start of the 
  research project leading to the Ph.D. degree.
• Good written and oral proficiency in English
• Good results in advanced courses and applied work in statistics preferably using Stata/R

 Preferred skills:

• A strong interest in the topic of men's family life and/or men's health, ideally demonstrated through previous engagement.
• Demonstrated knowledge of statistics and causal inference methods / econometrics.

What are we looking for in you?

• Good collaboration skills as well as ability to work independently.
• Well-organised and able to structure own work.
• Ability to think creatively within a scientific framework.

Employment in the position is based on a comprehensive assessment of all qualification requirements applicable to the position, including personal qualifications.

We offer:

• Exciting and meaningful tasks in an organization with an important societal mission, contributing to knowledge development, 
  education, and enlightenment that promote sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development.
• The prospect of conducting exciting and meaningful research to increase our understanding of men's lives and health
• The opportunity to be part of an excellent and highly ambitious interdisciplinary team
• Access to Norwegian register data and data from health surveys of high quality
• A stimulating and international research environment at the University of Oslo, with multiple research groups and seminar series.
• Opportunities to work partly from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Oslo, and partly at the Oslo-based Centre for Fertility and Health, a Centre of Excellence at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
• Good welfare schemes.
• Opportunity of up to 1.5 hours a week of exercise during working hours. 
• A workplace with good development and career opportunities.
• Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with beneficial mortgages and good 
  insurance schemes.
• Salary in position as Doctoral Research Fellow, position code 1017 in salary range NOK from 536.200kr to 596.100kr, depending on competence and experience. From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State 
  Pension Fund.

 

Read more about the benefits of working in the public sector at Employer Portal (http://arbeidsgiver.difi.no/lonn-goder-og-reise).

Inclusive worklife and diversity at UiO

Inclusion and diversity are a strength. The University of Oslo has a personnel policy objective of achieving a balanced gender composition. Furthermore, we want employees with diverse professional expertise, life experience and perspectives.

If there are qualified applicants with disabilities, employment gaps or immigrant background, we will invite at least one applicant from each of these categories to an interview.

We hope that you will apply for the position. 

More information about gender equality initiatives at UiO can be found here. (https://www.uio.no/english/for-employees/competence/gender-equality/index.html)

Application

Your application should include:

• An application letter, stating your motivation for applying for the phd position, and highlighting a field of interest within the HOMME project.
• CV, including a complete list of publications (if any).
• Transcripts and certificates.
• Master's thesis or other example of written work.
• Contact information for 2-3 references.

Application with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge, click "Apply for the position".

When applying for the position, we ask you to retrieve your education results from Vitnemålsportalen.no (https://www.vitnemalsportalen.no/english/). If your education results are not available through Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your transcripts or grades. Please note that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.

Contact information regarding the position

Project manager Vegard Skirbekk, email: Vegard.Skirbekk@fhi.no 

Associate professor Rannveig Kaldager Hart :r.k.hart@medisin.uio.no

For questions related to the electronic recruitment system: HR Officer Håvard Berger, email: h.n.berger@psykologi.uio.no

General information

The best qualified candidates will invited for interviews. 

Applicant lists can be published in accordance with Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLE/lov/2006-05-19-16) § 25. When you apply for a position with us, your name will appear on the public applicant list. It is possible to request to be excluded from this list. You must justify why you want an exemption from publication and we will then decide whether we can grant your request. If we can't, you will hear from us.

Please refer to Regulations for the Act on universities and colleges chapter 3 (https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2024-06-28-1392/KAPITTEL_3#KAPITTEL_3) (Norwegian),  Guidelines concerning appointment to post doctoral and research posts at UiO (https://www.uio.no/english/about/regulations/personnel/academic/guidelines-appointment-postdoc-researcher.html) (Norwegian) and Regulations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the University of Oslo. (https://www.uio.no/english/about/regulations/research/doctoral-degree/phdforskreng.html)

The University of Oslo has a transfer agreement (https://www.uio.no/english/for-employees/employment/work-results/agreement-rights-to-work-results.html) with all employees that is intended to secure the rights to all research results etc.