MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 – Free Speech Controversies and the ArtsArbeidsgiver: OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet
Frist: 31.01.2025
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 Social Sciences offers study programmes within archivistics, library and information science, journalism and media studies, social work, social policy and child welfare, public management, and business.
The Department has around 600 students and 40 employees and is located at the OsloMet Pilestredet Campus in Oslo. Multiple programs are offered through the department, including Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral programs in Library and Information Science and a Bachelor's program in Archivistics and Records Management.
OsloMet invites interested researchers of any nationality, fulfilling the eligibility requirements for the fellowship, to express their interest in developing an application for a one-year or two-year project at OsloMet, funded by the Marie Sklodowska Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 (Call: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF-01-01)
Successful candidates will be supervised by Professor Håkon Larsen, who has expertise in cultural sociology, theories of democracy and the public sphere, and empirical studies of public debates in the culture sector. Candidates are invited to address free speech controversies related to one or more art worlds in one or more European countries, studied via qualitative or quantitative methods, involving textual analysis and/or interviews/surveys.
The candidates may want to address questions such as:
What characterizes debates over wokeism, cancel culture, and minority inclusion as they relate to the arts in one or more European countries?What characterizes the dynamics of debates on free speech in the professional journals related to one or several art worlds (e.g., literature, visual arts, or performing arts) in one or more European countries?How do arts managers respond to these debates?What characterizes the attitude of arts managers and/or the general public in one or more European countries regarding controversies over free speech and minority inclusion in the arts, wokeism, and cancel culture?With this call for Expression of Interest, we invite researchers to submit:
An application letter stating concisely why the proposed research project is solid, timely, and innovative, why you are the best qualified person to carry it out, and why our department is the perfect place for you to carry it out.A CV (including publication list)A one-page project description (excluding references), that will be the basis for candidates with whom we will collaborate for developing competitive MSCA-PF proposals.Eligibility Requirements: The applicant should have a PhD degree in a social science or humanistic discipline, such as sociology, anthropology, media studies, cultural studies, museology, or library and information science, by the end of June 2025.The applicant must have a maximum of eight years' experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree.The applicant must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Norway for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline, 10 September 2025.Must be able to relocate to Norway. Teleworking will not be permitted.We are looking for applicants who have: Knowledge of the arts, cultural policy, and/or public debates in one or more European countries.A good track record in research and publications.Commitment to develop a competitive MSCA-PF grant application.An open and cooperation-oriented nature, with strong abilities for independent academic work.Excellent command of spoken and written English.Successful applicants who obtain a MSCA-PF grant will be offered a position at OsloMet to be hired as researchers to implement their proposed research project.
Contact: Håkon Larsen, Professor, e-mail: ******
Hanna Karv, Head of research support, Faculty of Social Sciences, e-mail: ******
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