The Oslo School of Architecture and Design calls for applications to the full-time position as Ph.D. research fellow for a three year period (1 August 2011 to 30 July 2014). The research fellow will be part of a large research project called Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (SCIBE) funded by the European Union, HERA Program.
The aim of the SCIBE proposal is to explore the relationship between scarcity and creativity in the context of the built environment by investigating how conditions of scarcity might affect the creativity of the different actors involved in the production of architecture and urban design, and how design-led innovation could improve the built environment in the future. The project is being jointly developed by research teams in London, Vienna, and Oslo.
The research fellow will be an integral part of the SCIBE Oslo team and will be expected to carry out a significant amount of the field work (questionnaires, interviews, census work, archival work, etc.) which this research project requires. Whereas the nature of the field work is defined by the needs of the SCIBE research project and we expect it to take around one and one-half years, the rest of the three years period will be used by the research fellow to develop her/his doctoral dissertation. The direction which the dissertation takes and its relation to the field work carried out for the SCIBE project, will be entirely up to the doctoral candidate in consultation with her/his supervisors.
The Ph.D. position is based either atAHOs Institute of Architecture or the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape and requires full time residence throughout the three year period, including participation in the research education program.
Ph.D. Research Fellow, SCIBE Research Project
