The Centre for Studies of Professions (SPS - Senter for profesjonsstudiar) has announced a PhD position in the framework of the project “The Cities Project: Preparing urban youth for further study and careers. A comparative project in 13 cities around the world“. The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR).
The project is: ”a large comparative project including 13 cities in 12 OECD countries (in Canada, USA, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Scotland, Poland, Iceland, Australia and Norway). (..) The approach is to study how the education systems in these cities are organized and the range of opportunities they provide. (..)
The project will answer the following questions:
- To what extent is completion dependent on who you are, where you live, which school you attend and the education program you selected?
- To what extent are attitudes towards society and economy dependent on your origin, place of residence, school and education program?
- What are the schools and teachers doing to prevent drop-out, increase completion and affect th e students attitudes.
The project is based on quantitative survey- and register data, and uses multi-level analysis to identify the impact of institutional and organizational factors on student attitudes and outcomes. The study is of high relevance to edu cational policy, authorities and schools.“
The PhD position is linked to the part of the project that works with the quantitative data acquired from questionnaires sent out to teachers.
The applicant is required to have a Masters Degree or equivalent, and be able to speak a Scandinavian language in addition to English. The applicant is also required to write a ten page project proposal for the specific PhD project.
More information about the position and application procedures can be found here.
Application deadline: 1st of January 2014.