Call for Applications: PhD Candidate in Geography

Jun 24, 2014 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology

A temporary position as PhD candidate in Geography is available at the Department of Geography, NTNU. The appointment is for a period of three years. The position will provide a promising research student the opportunity for professional development while studying for a PhD degree. The position is connected to the Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management’s PhD programme and the Faculty would be the employer. The Department of Geography currently has 7 Professors, 13 Associate Professors and 15 PhD candidates. The department has four main focus areas: 1) Climate, vulnerability, adaption and mitigation; 2) Environment, resources and management; 3) Mobility, transnationalism and inequality; and 4) Innovation in industry and society. The PhD position relates to focus area 2. More information on the focus area can be found at http://www.ntnu.edu/geography/environment.

The PhD project will be part of the larger project From a Curse to a Blessing? Transparency and Accountability in Managing High-Value Natural Resource Revenues, funded by the Research Council of Norway and NTNU. The overall aim of the From a Curse to a Blessing? project is to develop better understandings on to what extent and under what conditions transparency contribute to the improved accountability in management of revenues from high-value natural resources in the Global South. The PhD project will focus on investigating benefit sharing trust funds as a method of more transparently and efficiently transferring natural resource revenues to local communities in extraction areas. More information about the project can be found at www.ntnu.edu/geography.