MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Precarious careers. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor Dana Unger. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature. 

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 3-5, 2025 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at https://uit.no/arcticmsca/programstructure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 10, 2025. 

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Precarious Careers as presented by Associate Professor Dana Unger:

"I have three overlapping research interests: precarious careers, occupational health, and the work-nonwork interface. First, I have a special interest in economic stressors such as job insecurity and unemployment and their relevance for (psychological and physical) health and careers. This also includes the partners and children. Second, I am interested in finding ways to improve workplace well-being sustainably. Third, I am interested in how work affects one’s private life and vice versa. Boundaries and transitions (e.g., commuting) are particularly fascinating to me. Generally, my research is informed by a contextualized perspective. That is, I study the phenomena mentioned above also in the context of the employee’s immediate social environment (e.g., in couples) and over the lifespan with a particular interest in transitions. While the outcomes of my research are located at the micro-level, I am striving to be considerate of the macro-level (i.e., economic) context. My research is sensitive to the ecological challenges of our era as well as prevailing social inequalities at the workplace and beyond, particularly in terms of sexism, heteronormativity, racism, and classism. I use various research methods (i.e., daily diary studies, systematic reviews, longitudinal studies, and field experiments)."

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to dana.unger@uit.no by Feb 16th 2025. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2025.