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NMBU has 1700 employees and 5200 students and is organized in seven faculties. NMBU has a campus in Ås and in Oslo. In the autumn of 2020 we are co-located on Ås. Further information on NMBU is available at www.nmbu.no/.

About the Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM)

The Faculty has 1300 students and 180 staff. It consists of five sub-units, carrying out research and education in the fields of urban and regional planning, property management and law, landscape architecture, international environment and development studies, and public health.

The Department of Urban and Regional Planning has 22 staff and 6 PhD students, with backgrounds including urban and regional planning, environmental and landscape planning, architecture, human geography, political science and sociology.

The department’s main fields of expertise are substantive and procedural aspects of urban planning, regional planning in urban and rural areas, place development and place making, sustainable urban development, land use and transport planning, environmental and landscape planning, planning systems and planning theory. These fields are pursued in research, education and outreach.

The department has also responsibility for a 5-year master program in Urban and Regional Planning with approximately 160 students.

Further information: www.nmbu.no/en/faculty/landsam

About the position

The Faculty of Landscape and Society announces a two-year postdoctoral position (with a possible extension up to three years, provided extra funding) at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning as a part of the European project: “Public Space in European Social Housing”, part of the European HERA joint research programme “Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe”.

The main aim of the project is to investigate how European social housing estates’ shared spaces might function as a resource for integration. The project focuses on social housing areas, as these are often problematized as places of segregation and disintegration in European cities.

The working hypothesis of the project is that public spaces on social housing estates throughout Europe are a prime locus of cultural encounter and therefore constitute a unique potential resource for European integration. The project includes Danish, Italian and Swiss partners.

We seek a person with an interest in and a knowledge of the relationship between the social as well as physical aspects of public space. Experience or interest in qualitative research methods is desirable.

Main tasks

The successful applicant will work in the Norwegian delegation of the project, as well as taking part in the wider, cross-national research agenda. Potential candidates should obtain the full project description by contacting the persons mentioned below.

Acdemic Qualifications

Applicants must have a PhD degree, or have a PhD thesis accepted for defence, in urban and regional planning, architecture, landscape architecture, social sciences or the humanities with a relevant topic for studying public space and social integration. Appointment to the position is conditional on the candidate having successfully defended the PhD thesis.

It is desirable that applicants have skills in the dissemination of research findings.

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research group both within the project as well as at NMBU. It is therefore of high importance that applicants have good skills in cooperation and collaboration in research teams, and are able to inspire and engage colleagues, and share knowledge and networks.

It is an advantage for applicants to be able to communicate in Norwegian, regarding both fieldwork and administrative elements of the project.

Remuneration and information

The position is placed in government pay scale position code 1352 Postdoctoral Fellow, wage framework 24 (salary grade 60)NOK 524200.

A compulsory contribution of 2 % is made to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

For more information about the position, please contact:

• Professor Inger-Lise Saglie, Tel + 47 672 31 210, e-mail inger-lise.saglie@nmbu.no or
• Postdoctoral Fellow Melissa Murphy, Tel: + 47 94783790. e-mail melissa.murphy@nmbu.no

Information to applicants

Application

To apply online for this vacancy, please click on the 'Apply for this job' button above.

This will route you to the University's Web Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.

Application deadline: February 10th 2019

The application must include a cover letter, the applicant’s complete CV with certified copies of relevant transcripts, up to five relevant scientific publications, a draft research proposal of maximum 1000 words, a publication plan for the postdoctoral period, and the names and contact details for two references. Incomplete applications will be withdrawn from the appointment process.

Scientific competence in relation to the project remains the main criteria for evaluating the applicants, but also originality, independence and productivity in terms of peer reviewed publications. The shortlisted applicants will be called for an interview as part of the evaluation.

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