Description
Two Doctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1017) in the project “Museum: A Culture of Copies” are available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) at the University of Oslo (UiO). IKOS seeks to recruit PhD candidates with relevant qualifications and with a strong motivation for doing research on a museum-related topic.
The overarching project, “Museum: A Culture of Copies” , is an interdisciplinary project studying copying practices in museums historically and today. A long range of case studies by members of the project team will investigate how copying practices have shaped museums and their activities. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR).
The applicants must present an independent project that lies within the scope of the main project. Projects on the following themes are of particular interest: 1. The museum and the use of copies in educational practices. 2. From catalogue cards to digitization: the potentials and effects of new digital practices in museums. 3. 3D as a museum technology. We welcome projects using a comparative and historical framework, but also those concentrating on one particular museum practice, object type or museum. It is, however, required that the project is based on a specific and well-defined empirical material.
The successful candidates must participate in the research training program organized by the Faculty of Humanities (cf. regulations and supplementary provisions for the faculty’s researcher education) and must engage in the designated research activities on a full-time basis. The purpose of the doctoral research fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a doctoral dissertation (monograph or article-based) to be defended at a public defence for the PhD-degree. Applicants already holding a PhD degree will not be considered for this fellowship.
The positions are available for a period of three years. The PhD thesis is expected to be completed within this time frame.
Submissions
Applicants must submit the following attachments with the electronic application, preferably in pdf format:
- letter of application
- Curriculum Vitae
- list of publications
- transcript of records of the candidate’s master's degree. Foreign applicants are advised to attach an explanation of their university's grading system
- project description, including a detailed progress plan for the project (maximum 5 pages, see Template for project descriptions)
UiO’s electronic recruitment system will ask you to upload the attachments in the above mentioned order. Transcript of records should be uploaded as 'Attachment' under 'Other'. Please note that all documents must be in English or a Scandinavian language.
Educational certificates, master theses and the like are not to be submitted with the application, but applicants may be asked to submit such information or works later.
See also Guidelines for appointments to research fellowships at the Faculty of Humanities.
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