There is a temporary 2-year position available at the Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management (NTNU) as Postdoctoral Fellow in social anthropology. This fixed-term position has the primary goal of qualifying for work in professional academic chair positions.
Obligations
The postdoctoral position forms part of a research project called Energy Futures: Assessing Intermediary Expertise that Guides Arctic and Global Hydrocarbon Development and is associated with the department's ongoing specialization in Organizational Anthropology.
The objective is to improve knowledge in relation to how intermediaries (energy consultants) generate learning environments across the energy industry. Research objectives of the project include building a conceptual terminology and typology of the kinds of assessments that consultants produce, as well as the visualizing practices developed in the creation of energy futures. The project will focus on aspects of ethnographic research that relate to the creation and performance of expertise, expert knowledge, and elite cultures more generally.
The Postdoctoral Fellow will be part of the research group in organizational anthropology at the department and is expected to take part in seminars, workshops and conferences convened as part of the project. It is also expected that the postdoctoral fellow will conduct ethnographic research.
