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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 Health Sciences consists of five departments and offers study programmes on all levels, including PhD. The faculty has about 6000 students and nearly 600 members of staff.
Call for Expression of Interest for joint application under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship scheme
INTEGRATE
The research group INTEGRATE aims to develop knowledge about coordinated assistance to enable integrated and coherent pathways to work for vulnerable groups who struggle to find and retain a place in the ordinary labour market. We hypothesise that coordination is needed between public services and employers because the workplace is the key to employment. Coordination is also needed between health services and labour and welfare services because somatic, mental and vocational rehabilitation often are parallel, not sequential, processes. Finally, coordinated assistance also involves collaboration with the marginalized individuals themselves. Studying coordinated assistance in pathways to work is expected to produce knowledge of relevance in other areas of the health and welfare services too.
We hereby invite top-class researchers of any nationality, at any stage in their career after having obtained a PhD degree, to apply for an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska Curie Action Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2020) to conduct research at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University for a period of 2 years.
Area of research
The Marie Curie positions shall contribute to INTEGRATE research portfolio within any of the following themes.
Attention should be paid to organization, coordination and collaboration within and/or across different professions, services, or sectors. Projects focusing on theoretical and methodological questions or are applying innovative methodologies are welcome.
Successful candidates will be supervised by Professor Tone Alm Andreassen, and Professor Espen Dahl, who are both heads of the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional core research group INTEGRATE at OsloMet. Dahl is a professor in health and social policy at OsloMet. His expertise and research interests are research on social inequality, public health studies, labour market analyses, evaluation of labour market programs and social policy reforms. Dahl has long experience in supervising doctoral students. More information on his profile.
Alm Andreassen is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions at OsloMet. Her expertise and research interests are policy implementation, organisational reforms, inter-organisational or inter-sectoral collaboration, the relationship between professions and organizations, service user involvement, work inclusion of vulnerable groups, and disability research. Methodologically, the approach is mostly qualitative. More information at ResearchGate.
With this call for Expression of Interest, we invite researchers to submit their resumé (including Track-Record) and a one-page project description, that will be the basis for selecting a maximum of two candidates with whom we will collaborate for developing competitive MSCA-IF proposals. In this first phase, the cooperation will be carried out remotely, with regular communication via email and Skype, and one physical meeting, if convenient. If applicants are successful in the funding application, the work place will be at either the Centre for the Study of Professions or Faculty of Social Science (depending on the focus in project description), OsloMet main campus, located in the center of Oslo.
Starting Date
The EU informs the results on the MSCA-IF applications in February 2021. The candidates must be assessed as in principle eligible for a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. Successful candidate(s) are expected to be available to start within the following two months and no later than summer 2021.
The successful candidate will primarily work on the Marie Curie funded project, but will be integrated at the either Centre for the Study of Professions or Faculty of Social Science (depending on the focus in project description), in general, taking part in regular meetings and discussion groups; also the candidate will specifically be introduced to the national and international network of researchers of Professor Dahl and Professor Alm Andreassen. In agreement with the candidate, he/she may also be included in other ongoing projects and/or in proposal development processes.
Candidates must have a PhD in historical demography, economic history, epidemiology, medical biostatistics-, history- or anthropology and global health, as the minimum requirement. But, we are primarily looking for experienced researchers who wish to use this period as an opportunity to further develop their research, and to develop longer term research collaborations with OsloMet and other institutions conducting research in the field. The candidates will be assessed as in principle must be eligible for a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship.
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.
Expert assessment
Interested candidates should upload their resume (incl. Track Record) and a one-page note describing the project for which a Marie Curie grant will be applied. Please note that applications without a one-page proposal will not be considered.
The candidate(s) selected to proceed with a full MSCA-IF application (due in September 2020) will be supported by the Professors Espen Dahl and Tone Alm Andreassen, and by the professional research administration staff at OsloMet. Originals must be presented if you are invited for an interview. OsloMet performs document inspections in order to give you as a candidate a proper evaluation and ensure fair competition. Proposals will be pre-selected based on internal evaluation and the availability of suitable supervision. A maximum of six candidates will be invited for a skype interview and a maximum of three candidates will be invited to submit a proposal to the EU funded MSCA-IF programme. Candidates will be informed of the results of the pre-selection to apply by March 25th, 2020.
Selected candidates will be invited to meet the supervisor and visit the research environment at OsloMet in the context of their participation in the MSCA-IF masterclass, a two-day workshop to further develop the proposal organised by OsloMet in the first week of May 2020.
Initially, we offer assistance in developing competitive Marie Curie Individual Fellowship proposals. Then, to successful applicants to the Marie Curie program, we offer;
Practical information about relocation to OsloMet found here and living in Norway at EURAXESS Norway.
Remuneration
The competitive fellowship opportunities are 100% funded and include living and mobility allowances.
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Deadline for applications: January 20th, 2020
Ref.: 19/13017
Type of employment | Temporary position (shorter than 10 days) |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | By April 1st, 2021 or by no later than summer 2021 |
Salary | approx. 60 000 euros |
Number of positions | 2 |
Full-time equivalent | 100% |
City | Oslo |
County | Oslo |
Country | Norway |
Reference number | 19/13017 |
Published | 18.Dec.2019 |
Last application date | 20.Jan.2020 11:59 PM CET |