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November 19th, 2010, 09:44 AM
The PhD position is based at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape and requires attendance there through the three years, including participation in the research education programme. Close supervision will also be a part of the wider study process. This position is within a wider research project that has practice-based research as its mode of inquiry. It requires participation and contribution to shared inquiry in the related research project as well as demanding doctoral level individual research. The position is connected to the OVERLAY part of the project.An article-based doctoral thesis format is preferred. The advertised position is one of two that are connected to the research project YOUrban. Close research collaboration will also be supported, with potential joint supervision between the Institute of Urbanism and the Institute of Design at AHO.
The YOUrban project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, has the design and perfomativity of social media in urban environments as its core concerns. Social media offer tools for city inhabitants to question, debate and shape the spaces and places in which they live. YOUrban investigates tools and means to creating engagement and a sense of ownership, communication and responsibility towards one痴 physical, social and cultural world. Design and social media as communication are outputs. The project takes the city of Oslo as its context.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 10 December 2010
Further Fellowship Information and Application (http://scholarshipsboard.com/phd-research-fellow-in-social-media-and-the-city-the-oslo-school-of-architecture-and-design-norway)
The YOUrban project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, has the design and perfomativity of social media in urban environments as its core concerns. Social media offer tools for city inhabitants to question, debate and shape the spaces and places in which they live. YOUrban investigates tools and means to creating engagement and a sense of ownership, communication and responsibility towards one痴 physical, social and cultural world. Design and social media as communication are outputs. The project takes the city of Oslo as its context.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 10 December 2010
Further Fellowship Information and Application (http://scholarshipsboard.com/phd-research-fellow-in-social-media-and-the-city-the-oslo-school-of-architecture-and-design-norway)