[NORSLIS] 3 PhD Fellow positions in library and information science

[Katriina Byström]

PhD Fellow position in library and information science 
Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap (SAM), Institutt for arkiv-, bibliotek- og informasjonsfag

OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University (former HiOA) is Norway's third largest university, with more than 20,000 students and over 2000 employees. We conduct research in areas that are important for welfare and value creation, for instance health, education, social sciences, technology and design. OsloMet has an academic stimulating environment with a variety of welfare schemes. 
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 faculty has about 3200 students and nearly 240 members of staff.

The Department has around 600 students and 50 employees and is located at the OsloMet Pilestredet Campus in Oslo. Multiple programs are offered through department, including Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral programs in Library and Information Science and a Bachelor's program in Archivistics and Records Management. The Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science currently has available one PhD Fellow position affiliated with the PhD program in Library and Information Science, which currently has around 20 research fellows. 
Applicants must prepare a PhD project with research questions and methods for data collection and data analysis. The duration of the PhD fellowship is three years

About the positions:

Profile 1:
For this position, PhD fellow applicants can choose a topic related to one of the department's three research groups:
- Information and society (INFOSAM): The group studies professions in the field of information science, such as archiving and librarianship, and their roles in society, and information use in general in both work life and leisure time. The group currently has a large research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council about libraries, archives and museums as public sphere institutions.
- Mediation of Culture and Literature (LITKULT): The group looks at how texts and other cultural expressions are constructed, gathered, and disseminated, and how they contribute towards individual and social development and understanding.
- Information systems based on metadata (METAINFO): The group investigates how to improve people's access to digital information.
The department is a member of the international iSchools network, which means that the study programs and research should focus on the relationship between people, information and technology. It is a prerequisite that the PhD project should do the same.
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Profile 2
The PhD fellow will work on topics related to the research group Information systems based on metadata (METAINFO). We are particularly interested in projects focused on end-users in information systems. Relevant topics could be:
- information searchers and their interaction with information systems
- methods for evaluating end-users' information searching and interaction with system and information
- utilising interaction data
The successful applicant will be an integrated member of the research group METATINFO, which holds regular meetings and seminars where participants can present their research. METAINFO is one of the five research groups chosen for The Booster project at OsloMet.
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Profile 3
In line with global, technological and material trends, fiction and non-fiction landscapes are changing radically in regard to the production and publishing, as well as the distribution and dissemination of texts. As a result, genres and reading patterns are changing, which in turn changes how and in what ways literature is discussed. Increasingly, literary discussions are taking place in digital public spheres. These developments have led to a great need for research-based knowledge in these areas. For the advertised position, projects focusing on the implications that these changes have for libraries are particularly relevant.
The PhD research position is linked to the subject of sociology of literature and the research group Mediation of Culture and Literature (LITKULT). Applicants must prepare a PhD project proposal. Relevant topics could be:
- reading and media habits in Norway, such as children's use of digital literature or contemporary social reading and dissemination practices.
- changes in media materiality, availability and use, including consequences for libraries.
- the relationship between digital and traditional mediation services for literature.
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