[Commlist] PhD fellowship in Communication and Leadership (Digital Leadership and Communication)

*PhD fellowship in Communication and Leadership (Digital Leadership and 
Communication)*

Oslo, Norway

Kristiania University College is offering a fully funded PhD fellowship 
in Communication and Leadership for a period of three (3) years 
beginning in January 2024. During this time, the successful applicant 
will be employed at the Department of Leadership and Organization, 
School of Communication, Leadership, and Marketing and included in a 
team of researchers with ambitious plans to further develop research and 
pedagogical activities at the university college.

/About Kristiania University College/

Kristiania University College is Norway's largest independent 
comprehensive university college with 18,000 students. Our mission is to 
strongly contribute to Norway's social and economic development through 
problem-driven and applied knowledge development and dissemination, in 
close cooperation with the public and private sectors. Students can 
choose from a large portfolio of study programmes at the bachelor’s and 
master’s levels that are offered in Oslo, Bergen and online. Among these 
are study programmes in management, organization, marketing, 
communication, computer science, information technology, health 
sciences, innovation, and creative arts. The two PhD programmes at 
Kristiania University College offer advanced graduate work in most of 
these fields. For more information about the PhD programmes, see here: 
https://www.kristiania.no/en/research/phd/ 
<https://www.kristiania.no/en/research/phd/>

/About the position/

The PhD position is a three-year fulltime position that involves 30 ECTS 
credits of required course work. This is equivalent to one semester of 
study. The remaining time is allocated to the development and completion 
of an independent research project, which takes the form of a written 
dissertation. The three-year employment period granted to the successful 
candidate may be reduced if the successful candidate has previously been 
employed in a PhD position.

The successful candidate is expected to live and work in the Oslo region 
during the employment period and to take an active part in scholarly and 
social activities at Kristiania.

/About the project/

The PhD project is entitled “Digital Leadership and Communication” and 
is affiliated with the research group “Political Communication”. The PhD 
project aims to understand leadership in the digital era by 
investigating the communicative behaviour of leaders and followers on 
social media platforms such as Twitter / X. The primary objective of the 
current research project is to understand the extent to which leaders, 
by their behaviour on social media platforms, communicate leadership 
styles and the effect of these leadership styles on follower engagement. 
Further, the project at hand seeks to investigate how followers’ 
engagement to leaders’ behaviour on social media platforms shapes future 
online communication strategies by leaders.

The project managers have collected data from the Twitter / X accounts 
of 70 Fortune 250 leaders. This dataset contains all tweets sent by the 
accounts between 2010 and 2022, including metadata such as timestamp, 
engagement metrics, and similar information. This data set will be 
accessible to the appointed candidate. The successful candidate must 
design an independent research project that aligns with the overarching 
theme and research questions of the main project:

What is the degree to which leaders' behaviours (e.g., tweets) on social 
media convey leadership styles, and to what degree do these styles 
engage followers?
How do leaders shape their social media personas through their 
communicative conduct (e.g., through @mentions or retweets) when 
interacting with other users?
To what extent do the actions of leaders (e.g., tweets) and the 
responsive behaviours of followers on social media influence changes in 
leaders' own conduct on these platforms over time?
Ideally, the project proposal should also incorporate the Twitter / X 
dataset and be crafted using a quantitative approach that significantly 
contributes to the advancement of knowledge within the specific area 
addressed by the main project. Qualitative and mixed-methods approaches 
will also be considered. Furthermore, the successful candidate needs to 
establish a rationale for how their project will enhance the success of 
the main endeavour, which is understanding leadership and communication 
in a digital era.

/Qualifications and personal qualities/

Required qualifications:

  * Master’s degree (ECTS or equivalent) in Communication studies,
    Leadership, or Organizational Psychology/Behaviour with a grade B or
    better on the master’s thesis and for the master’s degree in total.
    The master’s thesis must be a minimum of 30 ECTS or equivalent.
  * Relevant 180 ECTS bachelor’s degree
  * Proficiency in both written and spoken English
  * Skilled in quantitative analysis or willing to learn quantitative
    approaches to social scientific research.

Desired qualifications:

  * Experience with coding skills in R, Python or similar
  * Experience with data from social media platforms such as Twitter / X

/Personal qualities:/

  * Curiosity and a strong motivation to carry out independent research
  * Good communication and cooperation skills
  * Excellent analytical skills
  * The ability, desire, and capacity to work independently,
    systematically, and purposefully
  * Orientation toward the completion of projects and the attainment of
    goals
  * Emphasis will be placed on personal suitability for the position.

Your application must include:

  * A short cover letter (maximum 2 pages), including a brief account of
    your research interests and motivation for the position.
  * Official Transcripts and Diplomas in a Scandinavian or English
    language. If the original is in another language than these, then
    both the original and an English translation should be submitted.
  * CV
  * Master’s thesis
  * Any relevant publications
  * The names and contact information of two reference persons. (One
    should preferably be the main supervisor/advisor of your master’s
    thesis.)
  * A proposal for a research project as described above of a maximum of
    five (5) pages. See here for template:

https://www.kristiania.no/contentassets/aea39e6158c24858ac7627a1e3537242/project-proposal-template_fellowship-application.pdf

<https://www.kristiania.no/contentassets/aea39e6158c24858ac7627a1e3537242/project-proposal-template_fellowship-application.pdf>

Kristiania University College will only process applications submitted 
through our electronic recruitment system. All documents must be 
uploaded to this system for your application to be considered. The 
documents must be in English or a Scandinavian language. Translations 
must be authorized, and you must be prepared to present originals during 
a potential interview. Kristiania conducts document verification to 
ensure a genuine evaluation and fair competition for you as a candidate. 
Incomplete applications will not be considered.

/Evaluation of the applicants/

All complete applications from qualified applicants will be assessed by 
an expert committee.
The candidate must be accepted to the PhD programme at the latest three 
months after signing the employment contract. To be accepted to this 
programme, one must fulfil the following requirements:

  * a relevant 180 ECTS bachelor’s degree, and
  * a relevant 120 ECTS master’s degree (or integrated bachelor and
    master) with a minimum 30 ECTS master thesis, and with a grade
    similar to the Norwegian/European grade B or higher both in average
    for the master’s degree in total and for the master’s thesis alone.
We offer:

  * An exciting job in a dynamic professional environment in an
    organization with ambitions
  * A pleasant and stimulating working environment with good colleagues
  * Opportunities for professional development
  * Good insurance and pension schemes
  * Corporate sports teams and training facilities
  * Modern work space in downtown Oslo
  * The starting salary is 532,200 NOK per year.

Kristiania University College welcomes and encourages diversity. Women 
and persons with minority background are particularly encouraged to apply.

We use Semac background checks in our recruitment process.

Application deadline

03.11.2023

For more information about the School of Communication, Leadership, and 
Marketing see here: 
https://www.kristiania.no/en/schools/school-of-communication-leadership-and-marketing/ 
<https://www.kristiania.no/en/schools/school-of-communication-leadership-and-marketing/>

For more information about Kristiania, see here: https://www.kristiania.no/

For questions, please contact (AndersOlof.Larsson /at/ kristiania.no)
or (Ingvild.Seljeseth /at/ kristiania.no)


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