PhD Candidate in Project management for sustainable health care environments

3 months ago


Trondheim, Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology Full time

About the job

We are looking for a PhD candidate with a passion for sustainability and eagerness to develop deeper understanding of how practice can continue to implement sustainability in complex building construction projects. Our focus is on how hospitals in Norway can move in a more sustainable direction when financial resources are restricted and implement changes that ensure that built health care environments contribute to a sustainable, circular and regenerative world. Relevant themes for this PhD candidate include decision-making, users’ needs, innovation, organisational learning and the like. 

The candidate will have the opportunity to continue developing a to ensure it fits organizations who wants to develop and implement common understanding and actions within the built environment. The research shall have particular focus on health care facilities, such as hospitals. The focus for this PhD candidate is not directly related to the facilities and how to construct them. The focus is on understanding the perspectives of different roles and actors that links to this issue at hand. Based on this understanding it is expected that the PhD candidate develops frameworks and knowledge that others (later research projects and practitioners) can use to improve their strategies and processes and as such advance their journey towards a sustainable, circular and regenerative built environment. 

Researchers and construction industry actors have desire to create sustainable business models and value chains. Many innovative solutions and state-of-art ideas exist that tend to be expensive. The high cost makes the funding organizations reject such ideas and solutions, thereby hampering the transformation into a sustainable future. So, what can we do? What projects and actions are possible to implement? In this PhD project, we aim to develop deeper understanding for the possibilities enabling project owners to contribute to a sustainable built hospital environment when they are constrained by limited funding.

The Norwegian health care sector’s core business, facility management and construction program are currently developing strategies to battle climate change, looking for sustainability improvement areas. In this PhD project, the aim is to:

Extend the framework for sustainability knowledge to provide guidance to practice  Conduct literature reviews that focus on organizations room for maneuver  Identify relevant Developing a system sketch, an overview, of the different role’s focus and needs 

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree. Currently, we have a vacancy for a PhD candidate at in the ). The person hired for this PhD position is expected to be an active and integrated part of the academic environment at the institute, in our research group and to participate in cooperation with industry in the private and public sectors. The research groups collaborate closely with the centre () - the world’s biggest research network in project management. In addition, this PhD candidate will be linked to NTNU’s Centre for Green Shift in the built environment (GREEN2050, ). 

Your immediate leader and main supervisor is associate professor Nora Johanne Klungseth.

Duties of the position

execute a PhD project within 3 years take part in and complete the mandatory  prepare scientific journal articles and conference papers under supervision and developing minimum three research publications of high quality present results from the research at international scientific conferences and in dissertation

Required selection criteria

you must have a professionally relevant background in project management, real estate / facilities / service or construction management, business or health care administration management, information and communication technology your education must correspond to a five-year Norwegian degree program, where 120 credits are obtained at master's level you must have a strong academic background from your previous studies and an average grade from the master's degree program, or equivalent education, which is equal to B or better compared with NTNU's grading scale. If you do not have letter grades from previous studies, you must have an equally good academic basis. If you have a weaker grade background, you may be assessed if you can document that you are particularly suitable for a PhD education. you must meet the requirements for admission to good knowledge of engineering, health care and/or innovation field good sustainability knowledge  good written and oral English 

The appointment is to be made in accordance with and 

Preferred selection criteria

work experience from project-oriented business good knowledge of the Norwegian AEC/FM industry and Norwegian health care industry good understanding of the connection between technology, process and human interaction fluent in a Scandinavian language 

Personal characteristics

analytical, respectful and excellent at thinking «out-of-the-box»  motivated, ambitious and eager to «walk new paths»  collaborative, positive, open-minded and able to take initiatives, open to feedback and input from others as well as able to respect and negotiate with others able to work independently and in team, with high degree of personal responsibility excellent communication skills, both written and orally eager to disseminate knowledge, both nationally and internationally

Emphasis will be placed on personal and interpersonal qualities.

We offer

exciting and stimulating tasks in a strong international academic environment an open and with dedicated colleagues favourable terms in the

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 within three months of employment, and that you participate in an organized PhD programme during the employment period.

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After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

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

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