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Doctoral Research Fellowships

Published: 20. December 2011

The Norwegian Academy of Music is an internationally acclaimed institution for music education with a leading position in the Norwegian field of music. The Academy has educated many of the leading musicians in Norway, and the teaching staff of the academy is in the forefront of their professional fields. The Norwegian Academy of Music educates musicians, composers, music pedagogues and music therapists. The Academy is a vital artistic arena with extensive concert activity, research and development projects. Students can qualify for degrees at bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level. The Norwegian Academy of Music has capacity for 475 students, employs 140 permanent staff, and has an annual budget of approx. NOK 165 million.

PhD Research Fellowships

4-5 position as PhD research fellow are available at the Norwegian Academy of Music within the two doctoral programmes Performance Practice and Music Education and Music Therapy.

The appointments are for the duration of 3 years, starting 1 September 2012.

Projects affiliated with the ongoing research within the following R & D focus areas at the academy will be prioritized:

The Co- creative Musician

Research on and for Music in Higher Education

Centre for Music and Health

The Arne Nordheim Centre for New and Experimental Music

For information contact ivar.frounberg(at)nmh.no

Succesful candidateswill be enrolled in the Academy’s organised researcher training and must also engage in the designated research activities on a 100 percent basis. The academic study will terminate in a doctoral thesis which will be defended at the Academy, leading to a PhD-degree.

Requirements

A 5 year Master degree, or equivalent, in an area relevant to the topic of the doctoral dissertation.
Applicants to the Ph.D. programme in performance practice that have a performative component in their projects must document their performance / artistic activity. Such documentation must be submitted within the deadline: NMH v / Cecilie Flaatin, PO Box 5190 Majorstua, 0302 Oslo. Norway

Qualifications and Personal Skills

In assessing the applications, special emphasis will be placed on the quality of the project description and on the assumed academic and personal ability on the part of the candidate to complete the dissertation within the given time frame.
The candidate must demonstrate good cooperative skills, and the ability to successfully join in academic collaboration across disciplines.

We offer

Salary level 48 (NOK 391 100 per annum)
A stimulating working environment
Attractive welfare arrangements

Submissions

Applicants must submit the following attachments with the electronic application to cecilie.flaatin(at)nmh.no with the title PhD Application 2012:

Application Form (31 kB)
Project description, including a detailed progress plan for the project (see: Guidelines for the project description (16 kB)).
Curriculum vitae
Copies of certificates

The short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview at the Norwegian Academy of Music.

Closing date is 15 march 2012.

For more information regarding the vacancies contact:
R&D Adviser cecilie.flaatin(at)nmh.no / 0047 23367149 or Head of Doctoral Programmes erlend.hovland(at)nmh.no