PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Media Studies in Norway

The University of Stavanger is offering a PhD fellowship in Arts and Culture in Education , with emphasis on Drama and Theatre , within the Faculty of Arts and Education and its Department of Education and Sports Science. The doctoral project will investigate the role of arts and culture—particularly drama and theatre—in Norway’s future common school. It will generate empirical knowledge about how arts- and culture-based approaches can support a more practical, relevant and inclusive school, and...

This PhD position at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is part of the Norwegian Maritime AI Centre , led by NTNU and bringing together researchers, industry, and public partners to develop AI applications for the maritime sector. The project focuses on intelligent navigation and risk-based route planning for safer and more sustainable maritime operations. The doctoral work will develop AI methods for navigational situational awareness and decision support, with attention to h...

This PhD project examines the cybersecurity challenges that arise when artificial intelligence is developed and used in the maritime domain. The research sits at the intersection of information security, AI, maritime operations, and data engineering, with a focus on understanding risks associated with training data, AI models, and the integration of AI into maritime applications. The project is embedded in a multidisciplinary environment at NTNU’s campus in Ålesund, close to the maritime industr...

This PhD position at the Department of Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is based in Trondheim and linked to Shore Control Lab , a design and human factors research environment focused on human-centred design for safety-critical operational contexts. The project sits within the Norwegian Maritime AI Centre (MAI) , a national hub for research, innovation, and education in artificial intelligence for the maritime domain. The doctoral work focuses on human-AI teaming in ...

This PhD project at NTNU’s Department of Computer Science is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network CAPTURE , an international collaboration with academic, healthcare, and industry partners across Europe. The position is based in Gjøvik, Norway , within the Colourlab research environment, and focuses on advancing wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) for gastrointestinal imaging. The research explores how multispectral imaging can improve capsule endoscopy beyond the RGB c...

This PhD research fellow position at the University of South-Eastern Norway is part of SFI CELECT – the Centre for Effective Engineering and Learning in Complex Systems – and the Industrial Research School in Complex Systems (INRESCOS) . The project is based at campus Kongsberg and is embedded in a large collaborative environment linking USN, NTNU and the University of Agder with leading industrial partners in Norway. The doctoral project focuses on developing and validating a competency framewo...

This PhD position at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art within the Faculty of Architecture and Design at NTNU focuses on Artistic Research – Digital Environments . The project explores how AI and other emerging technologies reshape knowledge production, creative practice, accountability, and broader social and ecological transformation through artistic and practice-based research. The successful candidate will develop an independent research project that connects artistic inquiry with digital tec...

The PhD project focuses on privacy-preserving protocols for digital identity wallets , including the EU Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet. The student will study how cryptographic tools such as zero-knowledge proofs and anonymous credentials can support selective disclosure, pseudonymity, and unlinkability in real-world wallet deployments, while also examining the privacy and security risks that emerge when wallets are used across public and private services. The work combines protocol design, impl...

This PhD position is based at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The project sits at the intersection of sociology, ethnography, Science and Technology Studies, and digital infrastructure research, and it focuses on how digital identity technologies are reshaping security culture, trust, power, and everyday social life. The successful candidate will work as part of the interdisciplinary project Cryptology a...