PhD-position (4 years)

at  Universitetet i Bergen

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PhD position
We have a full-time PhD-postition available at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care. The position is available for a period of four (4) years or max 4 months after completed the PhD-degree, if this is achieved within a short time than four years. The position include 25 % required duties such as teaching, exam work or supervision, depending on the demands at the department.
The position starts as soon as possible and is part of the project “Pesticides and exposures from traditional textile industry associated with own and offspring health in indigenous Guatemalan communities”, funded by the University of Bergen.

About the project/work tasks:

• Supervise collection of data and samples in indigenous communities in Guatamala in contact with representatives of the local communities
• First author publications on occupational and environmental risks, and their relation to health outcomes, based on the collected data and measurements from the collected samples
• Contribute with practical work related to the biobank and measurements in collected samples
• Provide information from the study process and results to the study participants and the local communities, and provide information from the study that can be used in policy briefs to stakeholders

Qualifications and personal qualities:

• The applicant must hold a master’s degree or the equivalent in Global health
• Experience from working with indigenous communities in Guatemala is essential
• Experience from relevant research projects will be considered positive
• The candidate should be able to work independently and in a structured manner, and have the ability to cooperate with others
• The candidate must have the ability and motivation to carry out a PhD project
• The applicant must be fluent in oral and written English, AND in oral and written Spanish
• Applicants from guatemala will have preference

Applicant whose education is from another country than Norway, need to also attach a certified translation of the diploma and transcript of grades to English or a Scandinavian language, if the original is not in any of these languages. It is also required that the applicant enclose a review from the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) whether the education in question (bachelor and master’s degree) is of a scope and level that corresponds to the level of a Norwegian master’s degree. Please see https://hkdir.no/en/ for more information about HK-dir’s general recognition. The review from HK-dir may take some time and the application should be sent to HK-dir as soon as you have decided to apply for the position. If no answer within the application deadline, you must enclose documentation from HK-dir that they have received your application. Please note that the automatic recognition offered by HK-dir is not sufficient and will not be accepted as basis for admission to the PhD programme. Applicants with education from a Scandinavian country or medical degree from the EEA area and a license to practice medicine in Norway are exempt from the requirement for HK-dir assessment, see Admission requirements at the Faculty of Medicine | Faculty of Medicine | UiB
See documentation requirements for language qualifications: http://www.uib.no/en/med/115526/english-language-requirements-phd-admission
About the PhD position (applies to university PhD positions):
The duration of the PhD position is 4 years, of which 25 per cent of the time each year comprises required duties associated with research, teaching and dissemination of results. The employment period may be reduced if you have previously been employed in a recruitment position.

• Supervise collection of data and samples in indigenous communities in Guatamala in contact with representatives of the local communities
• First author publications on occupational and environmental risks, and their relation to health outcomes, based on the collected data and measurements from the collected samples
• Contribute with practical work related to the biobank and measurements in collected samples
• Provide information from the study process and results to the study participants and the local communities, and provide information from the study that can be used in policy briefs to stakeholder