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

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...

RESADL (Reimagining Schools Through a Post-Disaster Lens) is an ERC-funded research project based at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb. The advertised position joins the Institute’s Centre for Educational Research and Development and focuses on scientific research within a multi-country study of schools in disaster-affected European settings. Led by Dr Karin Doolan , a sociologist of education, the project examines how schools are suspended, enacted, contested, and imagined after disas...

The Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim is recruiting a doctoral researcher for a four-year PhD project in sociology. The project, “Power, governance, and the political economy of fighting antimicrobial resistance,” examines how antimicrobial resistance is addressed through systems of governance, political decision-making and economic relations. The research sits at the intersection of sociology, governance, anti...

The AIAS-COFUND Junior Fellowships offer postdoctoral researchers the chance to spend three years at Aarhus University’s Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) in Denmark. Fellows join an international research environment designed for scholarly exchange, where they can collaborate with researchers at Aarhus University in the same discipline while also taking part in a multidisciplinary community of excellence. The scheme is framed as a fellowship programme for internationally mobile resear...

This PhD project is based in the Department of Geography and Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and is embedded in the research group Geographies of Just and Sustainable Transitions . The successful candidate will work within NTNU’s strategic energy area, Beyond the Fossil Fuel Era , in a multidisciplinary and international research environment. The project examines how democratic states in petroleum-producing nations negotiate the uncertainties of m...

This PhD Research Fellow position is based in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The project sits at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), infrastructure studies, security, and resilience, and is part of NTNU’s broader More Resilient Society initiative. The successful candidate will join the multidisciplinary STRIDE project, which develops a dynamic, multi-risk modeling framework fo...

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...

This PhD position is based in the Department of Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim and is part of the research group Information systems and computer-human interaction (ISCHI) . The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary setting that connects information systems, sociotechnical analysis, and wider work on resilience and democratic robustness. The project focuses on digital identity wallets in Norway, especially the emerging Eur...

NTNU—the Norwegian University of Science and Technology—is advertising four PhD Candidate positions within the project Cryptology and Social Life: Sovereignty, Security and Society Meet Digital Wallets , part of the strategic initiative A More Resilient Society . The project studies the European Union Digital Identity Wallet and its potential role as critical societal infrastructure in Norway and Europe. Research combines cryptology, privacy, cybersecurity, digital identity, information systems,...