挪威科技大学2024年招聘博士后（气候权力项目）

挪威科技大学（挪威文：Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet，NTNU），是挪威全国最顶尖的工程与技术中心，坐落于南特伦德拉格郡特隆赫姆，为北欧五校联盟成员。挪威科技大学最早历史可以追溯到1760年成立的特隆赫姆学会，该学会于1767年受到挪威皇室的认可，进而改名为挪威皇家理工学院（NTH），1996年，挪威理工学院与特隆赫姆艺术科学学院、自然历史和考古博物馆合并，组成挪威科技大学。依据挪威教育与研究部施行的公立大学合并计划，2016年挪威科技大学与约维克大学学院（Høgskolen i Gjøvik）及奥勒松大学学院（Høgskolen i Ålesund）合并成为新的挪威科技大学。

Postdoc in Investigative Data Practices Climate Rights

Employer

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - NTNU

Location

Trondheim, Norway

Salary

NOK 594 500 per annum

About the job

The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art seeks application for a fixed-term, three-year Postdoctoral position in Investigative data Practices. The position is part of the Norwegian Research Council funded “Climate Rights: Designing Evidence for Climate Justice” project hosted by the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art at NTNU in collaboration with the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago.

Rights-driven climate cases represent a global, civil society-led effort to address the accountability gap left by the lack of decisive action on climate change. The Climate Rights (climate justice and land rights) project’s goal is to develop methodologies to tackle the challenge of representing and integrating the diverse, multi-faceted nature of evidence across geographies of climate cases. To deepen the understanding of what constitutes evidence of environmental destruction, the project will reframe climate cases beyond conventional human rights and jurisdictional frameworks by grounded its approach in political ecology and design research.

You will join the Climate Rights project’s interdisciplinary team of artist-researchers, architects, geographers, and climate scientists to help reshape the way scientific evidence and ecological knowledge of environmental destruction are produced, represented, and contested through undertaking a series of investigations in legal contexts (e.g. the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on climate change and on Saami land expropriation), and through the project’s other ambitious research activities and public outreach programme.

Your immediate leader is Head of Department.

About the postdoctoral position in Investigative Data Practices

The Postdoctoral researcher will work closely with the PI to develop the Climate Rights project’s theoretical and practical approach to investigative data practices. The postdoc will be primarily responsible for investigating, assembling, and testing methodologies for data collection, spatial data analysis, modelling 3D environments, and visualization using diverse data and implementing them on digital/web platforms. This work will involve exploring emerging technologies, spatial media, and platforms used in human rights investigations with a critical view on their legal admissibility. It will also entail working closely with the PI and the research team in developing and implementing research ethics for the project’s data requirements. More generally, the Postdoc will support the Climate Rights project’s research activities (e.g. organizing research seminars), and ongoing work on developing cutting edge artistic research at KIT.

Duties of the position

The Climate Rights project welcomes applicants from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, skilled in diverse methods and modes of investigation for this position. Disciplinary backgrounds may include (but are not limited to) architecture, landscape architecture, geography and geographic information science; computer and data science; and environmental studies. Methods and modes of investigation may include (but are not limited to) any combination of the following:

critical approaches to spatial disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, geography), art, visual cultures, and media studies

Investigative approaches to the environmental dimensions of land dispossession,

extractive projects and conflict

expertise in investigative journalism, visual investigations, and data journalism

data-scientific and/or computational approaches to visualization, sonification, geospatial information, geospatial data classification and analysis

expertise in community engagement and advocacy on environmental injustice and human rights

expertise in evidence collection and management for environmental and/or climate litigation and environmental crime.

Required selection criteria

A PhD in art, architecture, design, geography or a related scientific field;

Demonstrated ability to pursue both independent and collaborative research through participation in research projects and investigations

Track record of developing independent projects, and professional activities at an international level

Demonstrated ability to pursue research ethics in project work

Excellent communications and teamwork skills

Strong command of both written and spoken English is a prerequisite

The appointment is to be made in accordance with Regulations on terms of employment for positions such as postdoctoral fellow, Ph.D Candidate, research assistant and specialist candidate.

We offer

exciting and stimulating tasks in a strong international academic environment

an open and inclusive work environment with dedicated colleagues

favourable terms in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund

employee benefits

Salary and conditions

As a Postdoctoral Fellow (code 1352) you are normally paid from gross NOK 594 500 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund

The period of employment is 3 years.

The engagement is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants, and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU.

After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

The position is subject to external funding.

It is a prerequisite you can be present at and accessible to the institution on a daily basis.

About the application

The application and supporting documentation to be used as the basis for the assessment must be in English.

Publications and other scientific/artistic work must be attached to the application. Please note that applications are only evaluated based on the information available on the application deadline. You should ensure that your application shows clearly how your skills and experience meet the criteria which are set out above. 

If, for any reason, you have taken a career break or have had an atypical career and wish to disclose this in your application, the selection committee will take this into account, recognizing that the quantity of your research may be reduced as a result.

The application must include:

A brief cover letter

A concept note towards a Postdoctoral project (no more than 2 pages)

CV, certificates and diplomas

A portfolio or other relevant documentation including summary of three most relevant publications

Contact information for three references

If all, or parts, of your education has been taken abroad, we also ask you to attach documentation of the scope and quality of your entire education, both bachelor's and master's education, in addition to other higher education. Description of the documentation required can be found here. If you already have a statement from Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, please attach this as well.

Joint works will be considered. If it is difficult to identify your contribution to joint works, you must attach a brief description of your participation.

In the evaluation of which candidate is best qualified, emphasis will be placed on education, experience and personal and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential will also count in the assessment of the candidates.

NTNU is committed to following evaluation criteria for research quality according to The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment - DORA.

Deadline 13th January 2025

Employer NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Municipality Trondheim

Scope Fulltime

Duration Temporary

Place of service Høgskoleringen 1, 7491 Trondheim