UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Security Studies (Societal Security). The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Security Studies (Societal Security) as presented by Associate Professor Bartoszewicz:

With a wider background in security studies, my research interest concentrate on the non-linear and cross-sectoral threats to security. Initially, I was tracing the dynamics of radicalization of European politics and electoral tendencies. The analysis of radical politics led me to the problem of democratic insecurities in the European Union. I looked into the triggering role of societal insecurity, especially in the context of securitised migration. Exploring the contemporary European landscape through the lenses of its ‘constituent crises,’ i.e., the crisis of economy, democracy, and culture which opens up new spaces in terms of academic, political and societal responses to this phenomenon. While culture (norms, values, identities, religions) constitutes the backbone of my interests, I am applying this lens to look at how these manifest themselves in crises, violent conflicts, and various security challenges. Specifically, I look into crises in various areas such as food, resource scarcity, climate or migration and their societal fallouts. The local is inherently connected to the global aspects of these phenomena, as my current research project on North-South connections in global security explores the global connectivity that brings complex, multifaceted challenges to the Northern European region, but also provides an opportunity to building responses that address global security challenges via cooperative approaches that include the Global South. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to monika.bartoszewicz@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.