PhD Opportunities in Journalism in Norway

The University of Stavanger is offering a three-year full-time PhD Fellow position in Documentary Production and Ethics within Artistic Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Media and Social Sciences. The position is based in Stavanger, Norway, and is scheduled to start on 1 January 2027. This is an educational PhD position designed for promising documentary practitioners who work in film or audio and want to develop their artistic practice through doctoral-level research. Th...

Volda University College is advertising a fully funded three-year PhD position in mathematics education , artificial intelligence (AI) , and competence development . The position is linked to TRUST – The Norwegian Center for Trustworthy AI , giving the doctoral candidate access to a broad national and international research network across academia, industry, government, and civil society. The project sits within the Department of Science and Mathematics at Volda University College and is connect...

NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) is advertising a PhD Candidate position in Biological-inspired AI approaches for mitigating the spread of misinformation . The project is based at the Department of Computer Science / Department of Information Technology and Computer Science in Trondheim, Norway , and is linked to the research group IS-CHI (Information Systems and Computer Human Interaction) . The research focus combines bio-inspired AI , machine learning , deep learning , su...

OsloMet – the metropolitan university is advertising a PhD position in reliable generative AI with knowledge verification at the Department of Information Technology , Faculty of Technology, Art and Design. The project focuses on neuro-symbolic AI , formal logic , reasoning algorithms , knowledge representation , and knowledge graphs to reduce hallucinations in generative AI and make systems more testable, verifiable, and socially responsible. The main application area is an AI-enhanced online p...

The University of Stavanger is offering a PhD Fellowship in Multilingualism and Cross-linguistic Influence at the Faculty of Arts and Education, Department of Culture and Language. The position is based in the research group FLUENT (Multilingual Development and Change in Contemporary Society), an interdisciplinary environment focused on multilingualism from perspectives including language acquisition, formal linguistics, and educational sciences. This is an open call for doctoral projects on cro...

PhD opportunity at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Cybersecurity Challenges in Maritime AI . This project sits at the intersection of cybersecurity , artificial intelligence , information security , maritime operations , and data engineering . The research will examine security risks in maritime AI systems, including threats to training data and AI models, data poisoning and manipulation, privacy and confidentiality, secure data sharing, and methods for assessing the...

PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (Campus Oslo, Norway) is inviting applications for multiple four-year doctoral scholarships starting in August 2027 . The Department of Communication and Culture welcomes candidates who can propose their own research project within the department’s broader interests. Current themes include internet and society , corporate communication , creative industries , and education management , with related work on digital transfo...

BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway is inviting applications for a four-year PhD scholarship in outsider innovation, regulatory foresight, and transformative technologies . The project is part of REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe. The doctoral project, Outside-In Signals: Outsider Innovation as Foresight Infrastructure , examines how open-s...

PhD Research Fellow position at the University of Oslo in Knowledge-Grounded LLM Agents for Defensive Cyber Operations . The position is hosted in the Digital Security Research Group within the Department of Informatics , with collaboration from the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) . The project focuses on large language models , agentic AI , knowledge graphs , semantic technologies , symbolic reasoning , and cybersecurity for defensive cyber operations. Research themes include tra...