Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the project "PublicJustice" (ref 295684)

Organisation/Company

University of Oslo

Research Field

Juridical sciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Positions

Postdoc Positions

Application Deadline

27 Apr 2026 - 23:00 (Europe/Oslo)

Country

Norway

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

37.5

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

A Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) is available as part of the project Rule of Law and the Public Sense of Justice in Norway (PublicJustice), funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN). The fellow will be responsible for his or her own research and work closely with the PublicJustice team at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, including PI Professor Peter Scharff Smith. The project starts in September 2026 and there will be a project team of five people in Oslo including the postdoctoral fellow. 

We are currently witnessing a global rule of law recession and basic legal principles often taken for granted in democratic countries, are increasingly questioned and to some extent abandoned. Despite the highly topical nature of these challenges, we lack detailed knowledge of how lawmakers, judges and the public perceive and value the rule of law. PublicJustice aims to remedy this by producing quantitative and qualitative empirical data on how the rule of law is perceived, interpreted and applied within the legislative and judicial branches of the Norwegian Government, and how the Norwegian public perceive and value the rule of law. In doing so, we will be able to compare the public, legislative and judicial understandings of the rule of law.

PublicJustice will examine the legislative branch through in-depth studies of selected parliamentary debates that express underlying values and assumptions about the rule of law, while judicial understandings of the rule of law will be examined through a case study of the written reasoning of supreme court judges. The public’s understanding of the rule of law will be studied by employing a well-known methodology from research on public sentiments on justice in the Nordic countries, which involves conducting extensive surveys and focus groups. 

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/295684/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-for-the-project-publicjustice

Website

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/295684/postdoctoral-research-fel…

Research Field

Juridical sciences

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS)

Country

Norway

Geofield

City

Oslo

Website

https://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english/index.html

Street

PO box 1072 Blindern

Postal Code

NO-0316

E-Mail

p.s.smith@jus.uio.no

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