PhD candidate in Artistic Research – Climate Rights

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About the job

The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art seeks application for a fixed-term, three-year PhD position in Artistic Research. The position is part of the Norwegian Research Council funded “Climate Rights: Designing Evidence for Climate Justice” project hosted by the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art at NTNU in collaboration with the Urban Theory Lab at the University of Chicago. 

 Rights-driven climate cases represent a global, civil society-led effort to address the accountability gap left by the lack of decisive action on climate change. The Climate Rights (climate justice and land rights) project’s goal is to develop methodologies to tackle the challenge of representing and integrating the diverse, multi-faceted nature of evidence across geographies of climate cases. To deepen the understanding of what constitutes evidence of environmental destruction, the project will reframe climate cases beyond conventional human rights and jurisdictional frameworks by grounded its approach in political ecology and design research.

You will join the Climate Rights project’s interdisciplinary team of artist-researchers, architects, geographers, and climate scientists to help reshape the way scientific evidence and ecological knowledge of environmental destruction are produced, represented, and contested through undertaking a series of investigations in legal contexts (e.g. the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion on climate change and on Saami land expropriation), and through the project’s other ambitious research activities and public outreach programme. 

Your immediate leader is Head of Department.

Three-year fixed term PhD position in Artistic Research 

The PhD will develop artistic and practice-based research with strong social impact. You will work collaboratively and independently to develop a spatially driven PhD project on climate cases and approaches to climate justice and land rights that critically engages with questions around responsibility, causality, and legibility through situated struggles. You will develop methodologies that complement the project’s goal of addressing evidentiary gaps in climate cases. The PhD project’s outcomes will include both practice-based and written component. The PhD will develop at least one research seminar around their project during the three years.  

We seek applicants from visual arts, architecture, design and other related fields with a strong interest in environmental, spatial and interdisciplinary research. These may include (but are not limited to): extractivism and green colonialism, open source and data-driven computational approaches to design, human and more-than-human rights, visual culture and the law, community engagement, and critical approaches to histories, and theories of environmental justice.   

Duties of the position

The successful applicant will develop an independent artistic and practice-based research project that operate within one or across more than one of the following contexts and frameworks (but are not limited to):

• Critical approaches to art, spatial disciplines (architecture, landscape architecture, geography), design, visual cultures, sound, and media studies
• Conceptualizing climate justice through courts relationally and spatially to climatology, geology, oceanography, and other planetary processes of change
• Documenting the spaces of evidence in rights-driven climate cases using documentary and visual culture methods      
• Developing methodologies for investigative practices using open-source information, scientific, data-driven, and participatory approaches 
• Undertaking in-depth research on situated case studies in legal / lawlike processes in collaboration with the project’s academic and non-academic partner institutions, other civil society organizations and cultural institutions   

Required selection criteria

• A Master’s degree in art, architecture, design or a related field;
• Demonstrated ability to pursue independent, mentored research and work collaboratively with interdisciplinary research team 
• Track record in artistic, spatial or environmental research or professional activities at an international level
• Excellent communications and teamwork skills
• Strong command of both written and spoken English is a prerequisite.

The appointment is to be made in accordance with Regulations on terms of employment for positions such as postdoctoral fellow, Phd candidate, research assistant and specialist candidate and Regulations concerning the degrees of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) and Philosodophiae Doctor (PhD) in artistic research national guidelines for appointment as PhD, post doctor and research assistant 

We offer

• exciting and stimulating tasks in a strong international academic environment
• an open and inclusive work environment with dedicated colleagues
• favourable terms in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
• employee benefits

Salary and conditions

As a PhD candidate (code 1017) you are normally paid from gross NOK 532 200 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The period of employment is 3 years.

Appointment to a PhD position requires that you are admitted to the PhD programme in Artistic Research within three months of employment, and that you participate in an organized PhD programme during the employment period.

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The engagement is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning State Employees and Civil Servants, and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU. After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

The position is subject to external funding.

It is a prerequisite you can be present at and accessible to the institution daily.

About the application

The application and supporting documentation to be used as the basis for the assessment must be in English.

Publications and other scientific/artistic work must be attached to the application. Please note that your application will be considered based solely on information submitted by the application deadline. You must therefore ensure that your application clearly demonstrates how your skills and experience fulfil the criteria specified above.

The application must include: 

• A brief cover letter 
• A concept note for a PhD proposal (no more than 2 pages)*
• CV, certificates and diplomas
• A portfolio or other relevant documentation
• Contact information for three references 

Successful candidates will submit a full proposal within the framework of the Climate Rights project at a later point.

If all, or parts, of your education has been taken abroad, we also ask you to attach documentation of the scope and quality of your entire education, both bachelor's and master's education, in addition to other higher education. Description of the documentation required can be found here. If you already have a statement from Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, please attach this as well.

We will take joint work into account. If it is difficult to identify your efforts in the joint work, you must enclose a short description of your participation.

In the evaluation of which candidate is best qualified, emphasis will be placed on education, experience and personal and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential will also count in the assessment of the candidates. 

NTNU is committed to following evaluation criteria for research quality according to The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – DORA.

General information

Working at NTNU

NTNU believes that inclusion and diversity is our strength. We want to recruit people with different competencies, educational backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives to contribute to solving our social responsibilities within education and research. We will facilitate for our employees’ needs.

NTNU is working actively to increase the number of women employed in scientific positions and has a number of resources to promote equality. 

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The city of Trondheim is a modern European city with a rich cultural scene. Trondheim is the innovation capital of Norway with a population of 200,000. The Norwegian welfare state, including healthcare, schools, kindergartens and overall equality, is probably the best of its kind in the world. Professional subsidized day-care for children is easily available. Furthermore, Trondheim offers great opportunities for education (including international schools) and possibilities to enjoy nature, culture and family life and has low crime rates and clean air quality.

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As an employee at NTNU, you must at all times adhere to the changes that the development in the subject entails and the organizational changes that are adopted.

A public list of applicants with name, age, job title and municipality of residence is prepared after the application deadline. If you want to reserve yourself from entry on the public applicant list, this must be justified. Assessment will be made in accordance with current legislation. You will be notified if the reservation is not accepted.

For more information about the position please contact: Professor Nabil Ahmed, e-mail: nabil.ahmed@ntnu.no. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact natalia.swahn@ntnu.no.

If you think this looks interesting and in line with your qualifications, please submit your application electronically via jobbnorge.no with your CV, diplomas and certificates attached. Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered. Upon request, you must be able to obtain certified copies of your documentation.  

Application deadline: 13.01.2025

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