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Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with almost 22,000 students and over 2,500 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conducts research that contributes to the sustainability of the Norwegian welfare state and the metropolitan region.
The Faculty of Technology, Art and Design (TKD) offers higher education and research and development (R&D) activities within technical subjects, arts and design. The Faculty has approximately 4.000 students and 400 staff members and is situated at Pilestredet Campus in downtown Oslo and at Kjeller Campus in Viken.
The Department of Computer Science offers three bachelor’s degree programmes, a master’s degree programme, and is part of a cross-departmental PhD program. Academic staff at the department are pursuing research in a wide range of areas including computer science, the natural sciences, and innovation and management. Both students and researchers are also involved in an increasing number of interdisciplinary initiatives across the university.
The Artificial Intelligence Lab is a joint research centre for OsloMet and SimulaMet. It coordinates research activities and student projects in artificial intelligence, both applied and basic research. The AI is composed of multiple research groups, most of them with a highly interdisciplinary profile and with collaboration with important national and international stakeholders within the government, academia and industry.
The Department of Journalism and Media Studies educates professionals in journalism, photojournalism and media and communication through three bachelor’s programmes and one master's programme. The department's study programmes are closely connected with the department’s research activities, which are internationally oriented and cover topics such as media, war and conflict; digital journalism; media innovation, entrepreneurship and design; media, environment and society; and individual exposure in journalism.
The Artificial Intelligence Lab, in collaboration with the research project Making Transparency Possible at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, is offering two temporary (6 months, with possible extension) Researcher (code 1109) positions in the field of Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer Science at Oslo Metropolitan University.
The candidates will be part of an interdisciplinary project between AI/ML and Investigative Journalism where they will contribute by developing tools, mining texts and analyzing big corpus of sensitive textual data to draw insights that may corroborate or refute journalistic hypothesis, summarize documents or support investigative journalism in other ways.
The candidates will be in direct contact with stakeholders in the national and international sector. Thus, good communication skills, desire and ability to work in interdisciplinary groups is desirable.
The ideal candidate would have deep interest and/or experience within the discipline of journalism, have experience with deep learning within the context of natural language processing, good programming skills and desire to impact society.
It is important for OsloMet to reflect the population of our region, and all qualified candidates are welcome to apply. We make active endeavours to further develop OsloMet as an inclusive workplace and to adapt the workplace if required. If there are periods where you have not been in work, under education or in training, you are also welcome to apply.
Please upload the following documents together with your application before the final date for application:
We only consider applications submitted through our electronic recruitment system and all documents must be uploaded for your application to be considered. You must upload all the documents in order for your application to be processed. The documents must be in either English or a Scandinavian language. Translations must be authorized. Originals must be presented if you are invited for an interview. OsloMet checks documents in order to give you as a candidate a proper evaluation and ensure fair competition.
If you have documents that cannot be uploaded electronically, please contact HRTKD@oslomet.no
The position is remunerated in accordance with the Norwegian State salary scale 60-74, job code 1109. The salary is NOK 535 200 – 694 400 per year. A higher salary may be considered for particularly well-qualified applicants.
For more information about the position, feel free to contact the leader of OsloMet’s AI Lab or the coordinator of Investigative Data Journalism.
If you wish to apply for the position, please do so via our application portal.
Ref: 21/05243
Application deadline: 15.06.2021
Type of employment | Temporary position (shorter than 10 days) |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | 01.08.2021 |
Salary | 535 200 – 694 400 |
Number of positions | 2 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Oslo |
County | Oslo |
Country | Norway |
Reference number | 21/05243 |
Contact |
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Published | 27.May.2021 |
Last application date | 30.Jun.2021 11:59 PM CEST |