Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Department
- Department of Research and Development
- Research Field
- Medical sciences » Health sciences
- Researcher Profile
- Recognised Researcher (R2)
- Country
- Norway
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Hours Per Week
- 37.5
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- HE / MSCA
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
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 Health service research. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor Hege K Andreassen. 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 Health service research as presented by Associate Professor Andreassen:
To avoid digital exclusion and unintended effects on the distribution of health and welfare it is of vital importance to develop in-depth understandings of how digital solutions in the health and care services are received and conceptualised among different users and in various social environments.
My research is founded in in well-established qualitative methods, aiming to explore how technologies; work; and social networks are re-distributed along existing and new hierarchical social structures, when digital communication in health now is about to change from option to obligation. Closeness over distance is already a vision and a slogan among developers of e-health and telecare devices. Nevertheless, for care at a distance to happen we need much more than new technical devices. A myriad of human and non-human actors must interact to co-create the outcome “care at a distance”. The recipients of care themselves, their next of kin, nurses, doctors, health care administration and jurisdiction, phone lines, wi-fi connections, buildings, IT hard ware and soft ware; these are just a few of the actors who all have a role to play when aiming to realize this vision. The implementation of digital care also brings to attention the positions of private corporations in the public sector, as they are main providers of technology. Indeed, scholars talk of care in the digital age as distributed care.
Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to hege.k.andreassen@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Medical sciences » Health sciences
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
Additional Information
- Supported fellows must be in possession of a doctoral degree at the time of the call deadline. Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree are also eligible to apply.
- At the call deadline, supported researchers must have a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree. Years of experience outside research and career breaks (e.g. due to parental leave), will not count towards the amount of research experience. Find Self-Assessment Tool to calculate your eligibility here.
- Recruited researchers must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- UiT the Arctic University of Norway
- Country
- Norway
- City
- Tromsø
- Postal Code
- 9019
- Street
- Hansine Hansensvei 18
Where to apply
- hege.k.andreassen@uit.no
Contact
- City
- Tromsø
- Website
- Street
- Hansine Hansensvei 18
- Postal Code
- 9019
- ArcticMSCA@uit.no