University of Stavanger, Norway invites online Application for number of Fully Funded PhD Degree at various Departments. We are providing a list of Fully Funded PhD Programs available at University of Stavanger, Norway.
Eligible candidate may Apply as soon as possible.
(01) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Resilient Bridge Infrastructures
This PhD project will investigate the safety and resilience of bridges under climate change-induced hazards such as flooding, scour, and debris impacts. The research aims to develop advanced numerical models and machine learning tools to predict loads, assess structural responses, and identify damage under extreme conditions. By combining computational simulations with data-driven approaches, the project will provide practical models for hazard quantification and innovative methods for damage identification. The outcomes will enhance understanding of bridge behaviour under climate-related hazards and improve the safety and resilience of important transportation infrastructure systems.
Deadline : 30th April 2026
(02) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Structural Engineering: Integrity of Steel Structures
This PhD project addresses a critical challenge in structural integrity assessment: the lack of reliable non-destructive testing (NDT) methods capable of measuring accumulated fatigue damage in steel structures prior to crack initiation, particularly in the high-cycle fatigue regime. The research focuses on developing a novel NDT-based technique and sensor to detect early-stage fatigue damage in steel structures, especially in fatigue-prone details such as bolted, welded, and riveted joints.
The project is conducted within the fatigue and structural integrity research environment at the University of Stavanger (UiS), in collaboration with three other foreign universities. It builds on previous work of evaluating existing NDT techniques and nonlinear fatigue damage models. The candidate will contribute to an ongoing research initiative aimed at advancing NDT-based monitoring technology, including sensor development, signal processing, and experimental calibration through long-term fatigue testing. The expected outcome is an accurate experimental methodology for fatigue damage assessment, capable of quantifying early-stage fatigue damage and estimating remaining fatigue life, with strong application potential in offshore structures, bridges, wind turbines, and other steel infrastructures towards facilitating circular economy.
Deadline : 30th April 2026
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(03) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Digital Health Services and Service Innovation
Technological change and digitalization are rapidly changing how health care services are provided and “consumed”. One important development is the recent emergence and growth of private health care companies that use digital technologies (e.g., smartphone apps and increasingly AI) to offer flexible and fast consultations and other services. By providing these services, these companies directly compete with existing public health care providers, and their continued expansion would have the potential to fundamentally transform publicly funded health care systems in countries like Norway.
Not much is currently known about how people use private digital health care services, their perceptions of private providers, the factors that determine access to and choices between public and private providers, and the potential for political conflict around private health care. This lack of insights is hindering an informed public debate around this issue and the design of policies to successfully manage this development.
Your PhD project will address this issue and map citizens’ perceptions, preferences, and potential access barriers related to private digital health care services using experimental, survey, and/or qualitative social science methods (e.g., focus groups). This will allow you to contribute to an important public debate and to a growing scientific literature on the political and social consequences of the digital transformation.
Deadline : 30th April 2026
(04) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship within Cultural Heritage Tourism
The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the research project HERITOUR – Enhancing collaborative synergies between Cultural HERItage and TOURism.
HERITOUR is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network that examines how the cultural heritage and tourism sectors can collaborate more effectively to address shared challenges and reduce the negative impacts of tourism. Cultural heritage represents a major segment of contemporary tourism yet increasing touristification and overtourism have intensified debates about environmental degradation, social disruption, and pressures on heritage sites. Although European and international policy frameworks promote ethical and sustainable tourism, heritage and tourism governance remains fragmented, with sectors operating under different institutional structures and priorities. HERITOUR investigates how current collaborations function and how cross-sectoral policies can be developed within a democratic and regenerative governance model. The project focuses on hybridisation, sustainability, resilience, and democratisation, and provides interdisciplinary training for Doctoral Candidates.
HERITOUR is a collaboration between Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Stavanger, Middle East Technical University, University of Aruba, Mid Sweden University, and the University of Granada.
Successful Doctoral Candidates will be seconded at heritage and tourism organisations for the total duration of three months during the employment period.
Deadline : 4th May 2026
(05) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship within Cultural Heritage Tourism
The University of Stavanger invites applicants for positions as PhD Fellow within Cultural Heritage Tourism at the UiS School of Business and Law, Department of Innovation, Management and Marketing. The department examines sustainable heritage tourism as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network project titled “HERITOUR Enchanching collaborative synergies between Cultural HERItage and TOURism”. The position is vacant from September 1, 2026.
Deadline : 4th May 2026
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(06) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Quantum-Safe Blockchain Technologies
The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the project “Quantum-Safe Blockchain Technologies”: Blockchain technologies has become increasingly important in financial transactions and sharing via smart contract. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is a mature field addressing quantum threats to classical schemes, the NIST released first three finalized Post-Quantum Encryption standards in 2024. In blockchain, PQC signatures are progressively integrated to replace the vulnerable cryptographic schemes used today, while there is potential for bandwidth efficiency in distributed systems. The project aims to explore schemes of hybrid computing to provide quantum-safe blockchain transactions, enhancing security in multi-party protocols. It addresses key aspects of heterogeneous quantum computing, aiming to solve small, complex sub-problems using Quantum Process Units (QPUs) while leveraging classical High-Performance Computing (HPC) on data-intensive tasks. With dedicated optimizing compilers, the classical and quantum fragments are separated in efficient implementations adapted to the changing QPUs and GPUs architectures.
The candidate will work at the intersection of blockchain, post-quantum cryptography, quantum algorithms, and heterogeneous quantum computing. Specifically, to achieve the main goal the project is expected to focus on three main areas:
- How can we support engineers in seamlessly combining quantum and classical methods for tackling complex problems?
- How to verify computing is quantum-safe by simulation of classical computing for data-intensive tasks while addressing computationally intensive but small I/O tasks with quantum advantage?
- How to verify a blockchain transaction computation is quantum-safe?
Deadline : 7th May 2026
(07) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Energy Security: Power Grid Resilience and Intelligent Energy Systems
Modern electrified societies face growing risks from high impact low probability (HILP) events to electrical grids, such as cascading blackouts, natural disasters and deliberate sabotage, causing large-scale power failures with severe consequences. The rapid growth of distributed energy production and storage enables improved resilience as partitions of the grid can be independently powered. This PhD project aims to develop the methods needed to take advantage of this opportunity. This includes methods for
- pre-partitioning the electrical grid into islands capable of operating autonomously during failure events,
- managing and optimising the operation of aggregated resources in an island during events (e.g. as a virtual power plant),
- operationalisation and integration with grid operators (e.g. to detect and activate islanded operation, or restore the wider grid through black start and synchronisation procedures).
It is desirable to draw on a diverse portfolio of energy resources and technologies — such as photovoltaic arrays, wind turbines, batteries, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems, geothermal wells, and hydrogen-based storage and production. As part of the study, these may be evaluated for both economic sustainability and energy security. It is expected that the work will rely on physical modelling and simulation (digital twinning) and various artificial intelligence (AI) techniques (optimisation, operations research, probability and statistics, and economics), applied to an urban case study. The findings are in turn expected to inform resilience strategies, failure event handling and restoration protocols, contribute to power market organisation and products, and improve national preparedness in general.
The PhD candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers in partner institutions and benefit from collaborative research and education activities. The project is a collaboration between the departments at the University of Stavanger and will be integrated in ongoing activities with Aalborg University, Justervesenet (Norwegian Metrology Service), and The University of Newcastle, Australia, as well as industry partners. An extended research stay at an external institution is encouraged. The work can focus on more operational aspects or be more oriented towards theory, depending on the candidate’s background and interests. As part of connected research groups, you will work alongside other highly motivated and talented PhD candidates and researchers. You will also have access to the knowledge base, state-of-the-art research infrastructure, and impact orientation of the partners in the team.
Deadline : 7th May 2026
(08) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Risk Management and Societal Safety
The PhD Fellow will join the research group in risk management and societal safety at the Department of Safety, Economics and Planning, and will contribute to research in risk science with emphasis on concepts, principles, methods, and models used to understand, analyse, describe, communicate and manage risk. The work should make theoretical and methodological contributions that are relevant across application areas (domains, sectors).
The PhD project shall focus primarily on conceptual and methodological issues and deliver general and transferable contributions relevant across applications and sectors. The project should therefore not primarily be a study of one particular application area or a single sector. Any applications should mainly be used to illustrate, test, or demonstrate the conceptual and methodological contributions. The work is expected to be primarily conceptual and analytical.
Possible research directions (the final topic will be agreed with the supervisory team after appointment and admission to the PhD programme):
- Development and operationalisation of risk science concepts and principles
- Development of methods and models for understanding, analysing, describing, communicating, and managing risk, including approaches to the development and evaluation of such methods
Deadline : 11th May 2026
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(09) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Societal Safety and Risk Management
The PhD Fellow’s research will deal with the consequences and effects of the use of disruptive technologies for energy security in Norway, a field currently confronted with a more complex and unpredictable threat landscape than it has faced in several decades. Energy security concerns both the classic approach to security of supply, affordable prices and diversification, as well as how a country prevents vulnerability to external political or physical events and builds a robust energy system that can withstand internal and external shocks. Climate change impacts, the war in Ukraine, great-power competition, and cyber threats influence national and societal security, as well as the stability and resilience of national energy infrastructure, which increasingly relies on disruptive technologies.
Disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, and quantum technologies, permeate contemporary life. This development exerts a significant influence on national and societal security and is therefore also increasingly on the agenda in the broader security environment. Since energy constitutes a foundational component of any modern society, disturbances or disruptions to its supply chain undermine national and societal security, weaken economic stability, and diminish society’s overall capacity to respond effectively to crises.
Consequences and effects of disruptive technologies will be studied in contexts that allow analyses of the interplay between the intended design of technologies and how users engage with them in everyday security practices within the Norwegian energy sector. This means: 1) actors who shape the field of security; 2) institutions that develop technologies as tools to influence how security is practiced; 3) security professionals who work in security institutions and use these technologies in their routine tasks.
Deadline : 11th May 2026
(10) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Nordic Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology or Conservation Science
As an interdisciplinary university museum, the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and study of archaeological and natural history materials from the Rogaland region. Our core mission is to generate new insights into the region’s prehistory and to situate these findings within broader regional and interregional contexts.
We are inviting applications for a PhD fellowship from talented researchers specializing in Nordic archaeology, environmental archaeology, or conservation science. The successful candidate will be uniquely positioned to exploit the great research potential of the museum’s collections. By formulating independent research questions and applying novel perspectives, innovative methodologies, or emerging technologies, the candidate will engage with the museum’s archaeological heritage, including data and materials generated through cultural heritage management projects.
This fellowship offers the flexibility to shape an independent research agenda within a broad thematic framework. Crucially, through reinterpretation and public dissemination, the research is expected to highlight the enduring relevance of archaeological heritage to our contemporary society.
We particularly encourage applications from candidates with demonstrated expertise in collection-based research, archaeometry, digital archaeology, or interdisciplinary approaches.
Deadline : 3rd June 2026
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(11) PhD Degree – Fully Funded
PhD position summary/title: PhD Fellowship in Multilingualism and Language Diversity
The PhD Fellow will be affiliated with the research group FLUENT (FLerspråklig Utvikling og Endring i Nyere Tid / Multilingual Development and Change in Society Today) and will be anchored in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages. FLUENT investigates multilingualism from a variety of perspectives, including acquisitional, formal, social, and educational approaches. The research group is interdisciplinary in nature and welcomes diverse approaches and perspectives.
This position is an open call for projects on language diversity and multilingualism in Norway, a growing research field. The project will add empirical data and analysis to heritage language linguistics, focusing on individuals who speak a minority (heritage) language in addition to the societal majority language and potentially other languages learnt in an educational setting. Heritage language multilinguals are an understudied subgroup of multilinguals, and the lack of research and understanding is amplified for languages that are understudied in general. The continued development of the heritage language across the lifespan is currently under-investigated, especially in combination with the acquisition of additional languages by these individuals. The overarching aim of this PhD project is to understand and support child and/or adult heritage language speakers’ language development in all their languages. This is in line with the holistic approach and aims of the FLUENT group, contrasting with many other studies that focus exclusively on either the minority language or the societal language.
Potential areas of interest for the position are development of multilingual grammars, first, second and third language acquisition, language contact, multilingual classroom practices, etc. Specifically, potential topics for the PhD project include, but are not limited to:
- Grammatical development of the heritage language, Norwegian, and English
- Testing theories of multilingual grammatical competence
- Individual differences among multilinguals
We especially welcome projects that investigate understudied heritage languages and contribute to an increased diversity of the language dyads researched in the field. This diversity (across languages, language families, writing systems, etc.) is crucial for a more complete understanding of multilingual grammatical competence and its development.
Deadline : 1st August 2026
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About University of Stavanger, Norway –Official Website
The University of Stavanger is a university located in Stavanger, Norway. UiS was established in 2005 when the former Høgskolen i Stavanger received university status. It had about 11,000 students and 1,370 administrative, faculty and service staff in 2017.
It is organised in six faculties: Educational Sciences and Humanities, Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Performing Arts, Health Sciences and the Norwegian School of Management at UiS. There are also two national centres of expertise and the Museum of Archaeology. The university campus is located in the neighborhood of Ullandhaug.
The University of Stavanger is currently the third highest ranked in Norway in terms of research publications per member of scientific staff. The university became a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU) in October 2012.
The university offers doctorates in: Literacy; Risk Management and Societal Safety; Educational Sciences; Health and Medicine; Management, Economics and Tourism; Sociology, Social Work and Culture & Society; Chemistry and Biological Science; Offshore Technology; Petroleum Technology; Risk Management and Societal Safety- Technical/Scientific Approach; and Information Technology, Mathematics, and Physics.
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