PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Linguistics in Norway

The University of Stavanger invites applications for a PhD Fellowship in English Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Education. The doctoral research will examine new multilingual classroom environments as arenas for reframing English language learning in primary and lower secondary schools. The project addresses how multilingualism can become a valuable resource for English language teaching and learning. It responds to the need for stronger competence and support for teachers workin...

The University of Oslo invites applications for a full-time PhD Research Fellowship in Psychology focused on personality and depression across the lifespan. The fellowship is based in the Personality unit within the Section for Health, Developmental, and Personality Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. The project is connected to the Depression Research Initiative (DRIVE) , a collaborative research initiative comprising five work packages. This PhD project will...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Department of Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. The project is situated within critical sociolinguistics and is affiliated with Living Arctic Colonialities , a project examining how coloniality continues as an ongoing, situated process in northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The successful candidate will investigate the interplay between coloniality, cap...

NTNU is offering a PhD project in machine learning for the conservation of historic buildings. The position is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action CHARM Doctoral Network, which develops resilient, sustainable and climate-adapted methods for conserving architectural heritage. The project, titled “Understanding conservation condition and rehabilitation needs at district scale in time of energy saving and climate change via machine learning driven method,” focuses on using artificial intellig...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is recruiting a full-time PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Trondheim, Norway. The four-year project, Impacts of Interdependent Multi-Hazards on Transport Systems , is part of the STRIDE initiative under NTNU's More Resilient Society programme. The research will examine how climate-driven hazards—including intense storms, floods, and water-induced landslides—interact with acute security threats such...

Nord University in Bodø, Norway, invites applications for 1–2 full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science, specializing in Journalism and New Audiovisual Publics. The positions are affiliated with the Journalism and New Media research group and the Governance and Democracy in Transition specialization within the university's PhD programme in Social Science. The doctoral research will investigate how podcasts, video, and emerging digital media formats transform journalism, public de...

Nord University in Bodø, Norway, invites applications for 1–2 full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science focusing on critical perspectives on polarization. The project should critically examine how the concept of polarization is mobilized, reproduced and contested in relation to gender, ethnicity and equality. Applicants may develop their own empirical research project addressing social, political and material inequalities, power relations, coloniality, class or marginalization. B...

Nord University in Norway invites applications for 1–2 full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science, specializing in technology and new forms of organization and leadership. The positions are affiliated with the Research Group for Society, Organization, Leadership, and Working Life (SOLA) and the Governance and Democracy in Transition specialization within the university’s PhD in Social Science programme. Applicants will develop an independent research project examining the role and...

Nord University in Bodø, Norway, invites applications for 1–2 full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science specialising in Indigenous History. The doctoral project, “Indigenous Minorities and Historical Revitalisation of Identity in Small Nation States,” will examine how Indigenous and minority communities have experienced nation-building, assimilation policies, identity formation, rights claims, and political and cultural revitalisation from the nineteenth century to the present. T...