Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in human rights law and Indigenous people’s law
18 Jan 2024
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
UiT The Arctic University of Norway- Department
Department of Research and Development- Research Field
Juridical sciences » Other- Researcher Profile
Established Researcher (R3)- Country
Norway- Application Deadline
16 Feb 2024 - 23:00 (Europe/Brussels)- Type of Contract
Temporary- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
37.5- Offer Starting Date
1 May 2025- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
HE / MSCA- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca ) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of human rights and Indigenous people’s law. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Øyvind Ravna . This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.
This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure ). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.
In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Indigenous people’s law, human rights law, property law, land consolidation as presented by Professor Ravna :
Professor Ravna’s research fields are Sámi and Indigenous law, human rights, international law, property and natural resources law, indigenous legal history, and land consolidation. He is the head of the NFR-funded project Governance of land and natural resources in Sámi areas, the research group for Sami and Indigenous, and the editor of Arctic Review on Law and Politics. He has been involved in research related to the Finnmark Act and the legal survey of land rights in Sápmi. Furthermore, also in research around the Fosen case, wind power, reindeer husbandry and encroachment on Sami lands. Professor Ravna has been writing five academic monographs from 2008-2023. Translated to English, the titles are: Legal clarification and arrangement of use in Reindeer husbandry areas (2008); The Finnmark Act and the right to the land in Finnmark (2013), From Little Bighorn to Standing Rock. A modern Indian story (2018) Sámi and reindeer husbandry law (2019). The common land laws in Norway (2023) (with G. Eriksen).
Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to [email protected] by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.
Requirements
- Research Field
- Juridical sciences » Other
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
Additional Information
Eligibility criteria
- Supported fellows must be in possession of a doctoral degree at the time of the call deadline. Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree are also eligible to apply.
- At the call deadline, supported researchers must have a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree. Years of experience outside research and career breaks (e.g. due to parental leave), will not count towards the amount of research experience. Find Self-Assessment Tool to calculate your eligibility here .
- Recruited researchers must comply with the following mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- UiT the Arctic University of Norway
- Country
- Norway
- City
- Tromsø
- Postal Code
- 9019
- Street
- Hansine Hansensvei 18
Where to apply
[email protected]
Contact
- State/Province
Norway- City
TROMSØ- Website
https://uit.no/arcticmsca- Street
Tromsø, Norway- Postal Code
9037
[email protected]- Phone
93027887
STATUS: EXPIRED
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