Job: 2 PhD Research Fellows in Popular Music (University of Agder, Norway)
The University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts, invites applications for up to 2 positions as PhD Research Fellow in Popular Music at the Department of Popular Music for a period of three years, or four years with 25% required duties. At present, the position is located at Campus Kristiansand. Starting date by appointment.
Deadline: 2 February 2025
Digital seminar for applicants: 5th December 2024
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/269353/phd-research-fellows-in-popular-music
The Department of Popular Music has highly qualified faculty with musicology supervision skills specialised within Popular music/popular music research. Also, the Department offers strong artistic competency within the field of Popular Music Performance, and members of staff with a vast domestic and international network. These will offer the PhD Research Fellow support in the academic field/working environment and as possible supervisors.
Responsibilities
Applications are welcome within the following areas:
A) Popular music performance
We invite applicants who research and analyze their own artistic practices in the light of international discourses within popular music studies and/or popular musicology. The expected outcome of the dissertation project is a combined artistic-scientific thesis including both a written and a performing part.
B) Popular musicology
We invite applicants who contribute to the musicological discourse in the interdisciplinary field of popular music. This includes, for example, projects with music analytical and aesthetic approaches, gender and identity issues, references to media, culture, technology and industry, the development of academic discourses, challenges of globalization, the reception of popular music and historiographical
reflections. The expected outcome of the dissertation project is a theoretical investigation presented in the form of a monograph or an article-based thesis.
Application
The application and any necessary information about education and experience (including diplomas and certificates) are to be sent electronically. Use the link "Apply for this job".
The following documentation must be uploaded electronically:
Curriculum Vitae (use the “standard CV” in the electronic application)
Certificates with grades for all education exceeding upper secondary level
Certificate from graduate studies, including a list of courses completed
For education from institutions outside of Norway, please include the official description of the grade system of the institution
Master’s thesis
Letters of reference
A full list of Academic work and/or Artistic development work
Academic work and/or Artistic development work (maximum 5)
Project description with a maximum scope of 5 pages, including reference list. The outline should present and discuss possible research questions, theory perspectives, methods, material, and a progress plan with stipulated expences within the given framework of NOK 75 000 in total.
The applicant is fully responsible for submitting complete digital documentation before the closing date. All documentation must be available in a Scandinavian language or English. Translated material must be attested.
Application deadline: 2nd February
Digital seminar for applicants: 5th December
If you wish to attend, please contact Ph.D-Coordinator Clare Hildebrandt,
e-mail: clare[dot]hildebrandt[at]uia[dot]no 3rd December
Further Information:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/269353/phd-research-fellows-in-popular-music