Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Peace, and Security

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University of Oslo

  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: PhD
  • Experience level: Not specified
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: kr585,000 SEK-kr660,000 SEK / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 26/02/2024
  • Location: Sweden
Peace and Security
Scholars with an interdisciplinary orientation are invited to apply for a position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. The successful applicant will be affiliated with the research group on the European Research Council Consolidator grant project ‘Innocent Children or Security Threats? European Children Born of War (EuroWARCHILD)” https://www.eurowarchild.org/ .

EuroWARCHILD is the first project to examine different groups of war children in the European context; namely across different conflicts, security settings and generations; children fathered by German soldiers in Norway and Denmark during World War II, children fathered by Red Army soldiers with German mothers in Germany during and after WW II, children conceived through conflict-related sexual violence during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992 -1995, and children born by European foreign fighters to ISIS.

EuroWARCHLD asks how s a child born of war can become a security concern, and what does it entail for the child who does? The primary objective is to provide a significant contribution to the development of both theoretical and empirical knowledge about children born of war: understanding and theorizing resistance to, and adoption of security discourses, surrounding these groups. The geographical and empirical focus is Europe because we have an opportunity to study different age groups of war children. The secondary objective of this research is to contribute to policy development and increase global attention, and policy responses, to children born of war, in Europe and beyond. To this end, the EuroWARCHILD project has three distinct objectives. First, to develop a theory of securitized child identities. Second, to document how conceptualizations of security frame mobilization for social, legal and political recognition for children born of war across European contexts and generations. Third, to analyze how children born of war narrate life histories along a security continuum and its impact on identity formation across European contexts and generations.

The EuroWARCHILD project is led by Professor Inger Skjelsbæk and runs from 2021 to 2026.

Gender, peace and security concerns, and scholarship, is at the heart of the EuroWARCHILD project. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be part of the project research group, but the Postdoctoral study can be framed in different ways. It should, however, make clear how the project links gender, peace, and security to the issue of children born of war.

A successful candidate must be able to work independently and structured. We are looking for people who cooperate well, help us develop the field, disseminate well, and with an expressed wish to foster a good work environment.


Qualification requirements
  • Applicants must hold a degree equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree in social science, humanities or law.
  • For applicants who have yet to receive their PhD degree, the Doctoral dissertation must have been submitted for evaluation before the application deadline. Such applicants must note the date of submission of their PhD in the cover letter.  Appointment depends on successful defense of the doctoral thesis.
  • Fluent oral and written communication skills in English.

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