PhD-fellowship

Join the University of Oslo as a PhD Research Fellow, focusing on personality and depression.

We invite applicants for a full-time position as a PhD research fellow at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. The position is associated with the Personality unit at the Section for Health, Developmental, and Personality Psychology (HUP). The PhD will focus on development of personality and depression across the lifespan, and will be connected to The Depression Research Initiative (DRIVE) at the Department of Psychology.

The appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years. The employment period can be up to 4 years given addition of teaching and administrative duties, depending on the competence of the successful applicant and the resources and needs of the Department of Psychology.

More about the position

The PhD candidate will be part of the Personality group and focus on the relationship between personality, depression, and other mental health conditions. Personality is important for the development and course of mental health problems, and may affect how environmental risk factors affect mental health, as well as the consequences of mental health problems for social and academic functioning. The PhD project will be part of The Depression Research Initiative (DRIVE), made up by five work packages https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/research/groups/drive/index.html .

The key objective of DRIVE is to encompass several core aspects of depression research, so they collectively can address questions that cannot be managed by a single work package.The current position will be related to the work package focusing on development of depression. The PhD project will answer some of the following overarching research questions, with a focus on depression:

• How do characteristics of the individual and the environment predict personality development?
• What are the associations between personality traits and mental health outcomes, including depression, personal relationships, and work and academic functioning?
• What are the associations between characteristics of parents and children regarding personality and mental health, including depression?

Your main tasks will be

• Contributing to developing more specific research questions within the project.
• Complete a PhD thesis in Psychology.
• Publish research papers in international scientific journals.
• Provide scientific presentations to an international audience.
• Participate in the PhD program at the Department of Psychology.

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Qualifications

Required skills

• At the time of the application, the applicants must have obtained a Cand. Psychol. degree, or a Master’s degree in psychology or a closely related field.
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in English are required.
• Experience in conducting statistical analyses.
• A strong interest in the topic of the PhD position.
• Interest in finding and reading relevant literature, defining research questions, preparing and analyzing data, and writing manuscripts.

To be employed as a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, applicants must meet the admission requirements for the PhD programme at the Faculty of Social Sciences, with specialisation in Psychology. The successful candidate will be admitted to this programme option, subject to approval of the individual project proposal. Please see the Faculty’s admission requirements and the structure of the Psychology programme option .

Preferred skills

• Experience with running statistical analyses in R.
• Knowledge of personality, developmental psychology, and/or depression.
• Experience with analyzing longitudinal data.
• Experience with conducting literature reviews.
• Previous research and interest in the above-mentioned topics.
• Proven ability to work independently and efficiently on relevant research topics.

Personal skills

• Ability to work independently and to collaborate effectively with others.
• Curiosity and interest in learning.
• Strong motivation and organizational skills.
• Ability to think creatively within a scientific framework.

Employmentin thepositionis basedona comprehensiveassessmentofallqualification requirements applicabletotheposition,including personal qualifications.

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