- JOB
- Iceland
23 Jul 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- University of Iceland
- Research Field
- Educational sciences
- Researcher Profile
- First Stage Researcher (R1)
- Positions
- PhD Positions
- Country
- Iceland
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- Horizon Europe - MSCA
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
The University of Iceland, School of Education invites applications for a PhD student position, funded for 3 years. The PhD candidate will work on the research project Feedback and mentoring in Social Entrepreneurship Education, within the seizmic Doctoral Network (SEIZMIC-DN), funded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and in collaboration with the Aurora European University Network (Aurora). In addition to their own PhD project, the PhD student is expected to contribute to the deliverables of SEIZMIC-DN (see details below).
Research Project and Field of Work
The PhD project will be one of 15 projects within the doctoral network, which all contribute to the overall goal of understanding social entrepreneurship scaling. Within that network, this thesis will contribute to a work package on Education and competencies. The candidate will:
- Carry out a review of research literature on feedback and mentoring mechanisms in educational and professional learning contexts, focusing particularly on entrepreneurship and innovation-related competency development.
- To empirically examine the role of feedback in acquiring SE competencies in higher education and practitioner courses, using both quantitative survey and qualitative in-depth interviews and focus-group interviews with students and academic instructors.
- Develop a feedback and mentoring model tailored for social entrepreneurship scaling competencies, applicable in both academic and practitioner training programs.
The candidate will collaborate with other doctoral candidates, contributing to relevant deliverables within SEISMIC-DN, including the juxtaposition of human feedback/mento- ring versus AI based feedback/ mentoring.
For further information about the organizations involved in this project, please refer to the following web pages:
- SEIZMIC-DN: https://www.seizmic.eu/msca
- Aurora: https://aurora-universities.eu/about/
- The University of Iceland: https://english.hi.is/university/the_university
- School of Education: https://english.hi.is/school_of_education/school_of_education
- Faculty of Subject Teacher Education: https://english.hi.is/faculty_of_subject_teacher_education
To sign up for an online information session for all open SEIZMIC-DN PhD positions:
Main tasks
- Participation in research work in collaboration with the main supervisor.
- Qualitative data collection and analysis, primarily through confidential interviews but also through relevant other means.
- Dissemination of research findings mainly in the form of a doctoral thesis (3-4 articles in recognized scientific journals) but also through presentations at international conferences and to the public.
- Organization of workshops in cooperation with the research team
Where to apply
Requirements
- Research Field
- Educational sciences
- Education Level
- Master Degree or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications
- Masters degree in education studies with at least a first-class grade.
- Strong analytical and research skills.
- Excellent proficiency in English.
- Initiative, independence in work, and organizational skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
Specific Requirements
- According to the mobility requirements of the MSCA guidelines, candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Iceland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date
- As required by the MSCA funding guidelines, the PhD candidate will have a required academic secondment at one of the SEIZMIC-DN partner universities.
- In addition, the candidate will have a non-academic secondment at BABELE for learning about and applying a virtual platform for feedback and mentoring.
- The applicant must perform the job at the University of Iceland, at the relevant secondment university, and at the relevant non-academic secondment partner, and must also be able to attend conferences and other required events
- If offered the position, the applicant must formally apply for doctoral studies in School of Education at the University of Iceland (see application instructions). Admission to the doctoral program is a prerequisite for employment.
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
Additional Information
Additional comments
Wages according to the current collective agreement by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs and the relevant trade union.
Applications must include:
- Cover letter (1-2 pages) in English, detailing the applicant's interest in the project and what they bring to its development and execution
- A research plan proposal (about 2000-4000 words, in addition to references)
- CV (1-2 pages) in English, outlining relevant work experience, skills related to the project, and a list of publications, if applicable
- Course transcripts and diplomas from bachelor, master's work
- Copies of the master's thesis or research articles, if applicable
- Two recommendation letters and contact information for referees
All applicants will be informed about the results when a decision has been made. The application can be valid for six months from the end of the application deadline.
Appointments are made in consideration of the Equal Rights Policy of the University of Iceland: http://www.hi.is/haskolinn/jafnrettisaaetlun#markmid2
Attention is drawn to the language policy of the University of Iceland: https://www.hi.is/haskolinn/malstefna_haskola_islands
All applications must contain a research plan proposal (2000-4000 words plus references) in which applicants outline how they would aim to carry out the research associated with the position. Via the research plan proposal applicants document their ability to independently define a research project and frame it in relevant literature (both in relation to theory and research method). In your research plan proposal please relate to the positions project description. Illustrate how you might study to what extent and what kind of educational feedback students receive and value as helpful in their journey for social entrepreneurship in different courses and educational settings across the Aurora-universities. This includes feedback and mentoring mechanisms in educational and professional learning contexts, focusing particularly on entrepreneurship and innovation-related competency development. Please also indicate how you might include your different secondments into your data collection.
In your methods section please consider a mixed methods approach. The research plan proposal should cover the following elements:
- A brief explanation of the aims of the project
- An explanation of the issue and the hypotheses or issues that the PhD student will work with
- A positioning of the project in the research field of the department
- A description of the state-of the art research within the projects research field
- An explanation of the theories on which the project is based
- An explanation of the methods to be used
- An indication of the projects potential contribution to the scientific development
- A work plan (brief), which describes the main phases in the project including scheduling the elements of the PhD programme
The applicant is expected to start in February 2025.
Job percentage: 100%
Application deadline until end of: 16.09.2024
More info provided by
Auður Pálsdóttir - audurp@hi.is -
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- University of Iceland
- Country
- Iceland
- Geofield
Contact
- City
- Reykjavík
- Website
- Street
- Sæmundargata 6
- Postal Code
- 101
- audurp@hi.is