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The position

A Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is available within the Anthropology Section at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education within the ERC-funded project: Zoonosis: Zoonotic Anthropology and Multispecies Infrastructures along China’s Belt and Road, led by Dr. Richard Fraser (Principal Investigator).

The position is a fixed term position for a duration of 3 years. It is a prerequisite that the applicant can carry out the project over the full course of the employment period. No person may hold more than one fixed term position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the same institution.

As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, you will have the opportunity to advance your scientific career and further qualify for academic positions. If you do not already have the educational competence that meets the requirements for an Associate Professor position in Norway, UiT will arrange such competence during the employment period.

The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø. You must be able to start in the position within a reasonable time after receiving the offer.

About the project

The ERC project explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is transforming multispecies relations, infrastructures, and public health landscapes across regions linked to China through trade, migration, and ecological interconnection. Drawing on anthropology, political ecology, and multispecies ethnography, the project investigates how zoonotic risk and biosecurity are understood, governed, and lived across diverse local contexts. Fieldwork will be conducted in multiple regions associated with the BRI, with a focus on animal infrastructures, markets, migration, and China’s expanding health diplomacy. While the project suggests certain field sites, candidates are welcome to propose alternative, well-justified locations that align with the project’s comparative aims.

You must submit a project proposal (max 7 pages)outlining your proposed research focus and potential field site(s). The proposal must include a progress plan.

About the position

The position focuses on industrial meat production, infrastructure, and zoonotic risk in Asia (e.g. Pakistan, Mongolia and Kazakhstan) – a region connected to the Belt and Road Initiative. This work package examines how BRI investments reshape livestock farming, transport, and food infrastructures, and how these transformations reconfigure relationships between humans, animals, and microbes.

Suggested field sites include Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia but applicants are welcome to propose alternative, well-justified locations that illuminate similar processes of infrastructural transformation, industrial meat production, and zoonotic risk connected to Chinas BRI.

Main tasks

• • Conduct ethnographic fieldwork on industrial meat production, animal logistics, and biosecurity practices in relation to BRI development.
• • Analyse how local beliefs, political economy, and transnational infrastructures intersect around zoonotic risk.
• • Map supply chains and infrastructural ecologies (in collaboration with project GIS support).
• • Engage with veterinarians, traders, and health officials to trace multispecies and institutional relations.
• • Participate in comparative workshops and contribute to multimodal dissemination (e.g. photo, film, web).
• • Publish peer-reviewed articles in coordination with the ERC project’s publication plan.
• • Contribute to multimodal outputs (e.g., photography, short films, sound ethnography).

Contact

For further information about the position, please contact Richard Fraser, Principal Investigator, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway:

• • email: richard.a.fraser@uit.no

Stine W. Adrian, Deputy Head of Department, UiT -The Arctic University of Norway:

• • email: stine.willum.adrian@uit.no

Rita Johansen, Senior advisor, UiT -The Arctic University of Norway

• • email: rita.johansen@uit.no

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• • PhD in Social, Cultural, Visual Anthropology or closely related discipline. If you’re at the final stages of your PhD, you may still apply if you have submitted your PhD thesis for doctoral degree evaluation within the application deadline. You must submit the thesis with your application. Documentation of your completed PhD degree must be submitted before commencement.
• • Strong ethnographic research background
• • Regional researchexperience in Asia—or another BRI-linked region.
• • Excellent written and spoken English. Nordic applicants can document their capabilities by attaching their high school diploma.

Desired qualifications

• • Relevant local language skills for fieldwork.
• • Expertise in political ecology, medical anthropology, infrastructure studies, and multispecies ethnography is an advantage.

In the assessment the main emphasis will be attached to the submitted works and the project proposalfor the qualifying work. Emphasis shall also be attached to experience from popularization/dissemination and academic policy and administrative activity.

During the assessment emphasis will be put on the candidate’s motivation, potential for research, and personal suitability for the position. We are looking for candidates who:

• • Have good collaboration skills
• • Have good communication and interaction with colleagues and students
• • Wants to contribute to a good working environment

At UiT we put emphasis on the quality, relevance and significance of the research work and not on where the work is published, in accordance with the principles of The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

Inclusion and diversity

UiT The Arctic University i Norway is working actively to promote equality, gender balance and diversity among employees and students, and to create an inclusive and safe working environment. We believe that inclusion and diversity is a strength, and we want employees with different competencies, professional experience, life experience and perspectives.

If you have a disability, a gap in your CV or immigrant background, we encourage you to tick the box for this in your application. If there are qualified applicants, we invite least one in each group for an interview. If you get the job, we will adapt the working conditions if you need it. Apart from selecting the right candidates, we will only use the information for anonymous statistics.

We offer

• • A 3-year postdoctoral fellowship within a major ERC-funded research project.
• • Research funding for fieldwork, travel, and dissemination.
• • Mentorship in comparative and multimodal anthropology.
• • Access to UiT’s visual anthropology and multimodal research facilities.
• • Good career opportunities
• • Flexible working hours and a state collective pay agreement
• • Pension scheme through the state pension fund

Norwegian health policy aims to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their personal finances and where they live, has access to good health and care services of equal standard. As an employee you will become member of the National Insurance Scheme which also include health care services.

More practical information for working and living in Norway can be found here: https://uit.no/staffmobility

Application

Please note that the application will only be assessed based on the information submitted by the application deadline via Jobbnorge. It is therefore important that you include all necessary documents demonstrating your qualifications for the position.

Your application must include:

• • Cover letter explaining your motivation and research interests
• • Project proposal (max 7 pages) outlining your proposed research focus and potential field site(s). The proposal must include a progress plan.
• • CV with list of publications
• • Diplomas and transcripts (all degrees)
• • Documentation of English proficiency. If English proficiency is not documented in the application, it must be documented before starting in the position.
• • Contact information to 2-3 references
• • Documentation of educational competence, if available
• • Description of your academic production, stating which works you consider most important
• • Academic works, up to ten. The doctoral thesis is regarded as one work.

If you’re at the final stages of your PhD, you may still apply if you have submitted your PhD thesis for doctoral degree evaluation within the application deadline. You must submit the thesis with your application. Documentation of your completed PhD degree must be submitted before commencement.

All documentation to be considered must be in a Scandinavian language or English.

Assessment

The applicants will be assessed by an expert committee. The committee's mandate is to undertake an assessment of the applicants' qualifications based on the written material presented by the applicants, and the detailed description draw up for the position. A copy of the assessment report will be sent to all applicants.

The applicants who are assessed as best qualified will be called to an interview. The interview should among other things, aim to clarify the applicant’s motivation and personal suitability for the position. A trial lecture may also be held.

General information

The appointment is made in accordance with State regulations and guidelines at UiT. At our website, you will find more information for applicants.

The remuneration for Postdoctoral research fellow is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1352. A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted. You will become a member of the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund, which gives you many benefits in addition to a lifelong pension: You may be entitled to financial support if you become ill or disabled, your family may be entitled to financial support when you die, you become insured against occupational injury or occupational disease, and you can get good terms on a mortgage. Read more about your employee benefits at: spk.no.

The successful candidate must be willing to get involved in the ongoing development of their department and the university as a whole.

According to the Norwegian Freedom and Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.

In case of discrepancies between the Norwegian and the English version of this description, the Norwegian version takes precedence.

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UiT The Arctic University of Norway is a multi-campus comprehensive university at the international forefront. Our vision is to be a driving force for developing the High North. The Northern Sami notion eallju, which means eagerness to work, sets the tone for this motive power at UiT. Along with students, staff and the wider community, we aim to utilise our location in Northern Norway and Sápmi, our broad and diverse research and study portfolio and interdisciplinary advantage to shape the future.

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We will demonstrate adaptability and seek good and purposeful utilisation of resources, so we are ready to meet the expectations and opportunities of the future. We will strengthen the quality and impact of our disciplines and core tasks through the following three strategic priority areas.