PhD-fellowship

PhD-fellowship

Join the University of Oslo as a PhD Research Fellow, focusing on personality and depression. Apply now!

More about the position

The PhD candidate will be part of the Personality group and focus on the relationship between personality, depression, and other mental health conditions. Personality is important for the development and course of mental health problems, and may affect how environmental risk factors affect mental health, as well as the consequences of mental health problems for social and academic functioning. The PhD project will be part of The Depression Research Initiative (DRIVE), made up by five work packages https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/groups/drive/index.html.

The key objective of DRIVE is to encompass several core aspects of depression research, so they collectively can address questions that cannot be managed by a single work package. The current position will be related to the work package focusing on development of depression. The PhD project will answer some of the following overarching research questions, with a focus on depression:

• How do characteristics of the individual and the environment predict personality development?
• What are the associations between personality traits and mental health outcomes, including depression, personal relationships, and work and academic functioning?
• What are the associations between characteristics of parents and children regarding personality and mental health, including depression?

Your main tasks will be

• Contributing to developing more specific research questions within the project.
• Complete a PhD thesis in Psychology.
• Publish research papers in international scientific journals.
• Provide scientific presentations to an international audience.
• Participate in the PhD program at the Department of Psychology.

Why should you choose us?

• Exciting and meaningful tasks in an organization with an important societal mission, contributing to knowledge development, education, and enlightenment that promote sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development.
• Committed colleagues in a good working environment.
• Good welfare schemes.
• Opportunity of up to 1.5 hours a week of exercise during working hours.
• A workplace with good development and career opportunities.
• Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with beneficial mortgages and good insurance schemes.
• Salary in position as Doctoral Research Fellow, position code 1017 in salary range NOK 565 700–625 000, depending on competence and experience. From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State Pension Fund.

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Application

Your application should include:

• An application letter including your motivation for the job and a description of how your qualifications are relevant for the job.
• CV
• A complete list of publications
• Transcripts and certificates
• Contact information for 2-3 references

Your CV must be entered in Jobbnorge’s CV form and cannot be submitted only as an attachment. This requirement is intended to ensure correct documentation and record-keeping in accordance with the Public Administration Act, Section 15.

Application with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge, click "Apply for this job".

When applying for the position, we ask you to retrieve your education results from Vitnemålsportalen.no. If your education results are not available through Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your transcripts or grades. Please note that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.