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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 Health Sciences consists of five departments and offers study programmes on all levels, including PhD. The faculty has about 6000 students and nearly 600 members of staff.
Department of Behavioural Sciences har approximately 750 students and 60 employees. The department is represented at all three campus; Kjeller, Pilestredet and Sandvika.
The Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Behavioural Sciences has two vacant research fellow positions under the PhD programme in behaviour analysis. The research fellowship period is three or four years, without or with a 25% teaching obligation.
The PhD programme in behaviour analysis qualifies candidates for research at a high level and for positions in the university and university college sector. The programme also qualifies candidates to conduct applied and clinical work. Behaviour analysis as a research discipline is characterised by linking of conceptual, experimental and applied research. Members of the academic staff affiliated to the programme possess, and continue to develop, teaching and research collaborations with recognised academic environments and educational institutions in Norway and abroad.
Research Fellows Positions
Position 1: Transfer of Function (Project 1)
The more general questions asked in this research project are related to differences between functional and equivalence classes. Furthermore, on the importance of transfer or transformation of functions. Stimulus equivalence classes, functional stimulus classes, functional equivalence classes, and contingency classes have frequently been used in the literature. While many experiments have studied the formation of classes based on reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity, far fewer experiments have studied the formation of functional equivalence classes based on partitioning.
Position 2: Attending Behaviour (Project 2)
Eye-tracking data has been used as additional data in research on stimulus control and conditional discrimination procedures. Furthermore, studies have explored the differential outcomes in eye-movement topographies, using head-mounted eye-tracking equipment. The purpose of this project is to increase the knowledge of complex human behavioral repertoires in studying attending behavior. To do this, we employ matching-to-sample procedures set up to generate responding referred to as stimulus equivalence. This type of research is to be considered as basic research meant only to increase the scientific understanding of human behavior. However, we also believe that the current has the potential to make a great impact in several applied fields.
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The salary for the PhD Research Fellow, position code 1017, is pay grade 50–54 on the pay scale for state employees, currently NOK 429,700–458,800.
Application
The application letter shall include the applicant’s motivation for applying to this fellowship as well as a short overview of the qualifications, technical skills, experience, and personal skills that make you an attractive candidate for a successful and productive completion of this work. All application documents submitted should be in English.
In addition to the online application, you must upload the following documents:
Admission to the Ph.D. programme in behaviour analysis is a requirement for accede to the position.
Further Information
We use an electronic recruitment system. If you wish to apply for one of the positions, register your application and CV by clicking the button and tick which of the positions you wish to apply for.
Applications that do not satisfy all the requirements listed for the application will be rejected.
The university college staff shall as far as possible reflect the diversity of the population as a whole. We therefore encourage qualified applicants from immigrant backgrounds or with functional impairments to apply. The university college is an Inclusive Workplace (IW) enterprise, and enquiries about possibilities for adaptation can be addressed to the contact person named in this advertisement.
Type of employment | Temporary position (shorter than 10 days) |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | as soon as possible |
Salary | ltr. 50-54 |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100 |
City | Oslo |
County | Oslo |
Country | Norway |
Reference number | 16/03338 |
Contact |
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Published | 04.May.2016 |
Last application date | 09.Jun.2016 11:59 PM CEST |