You can pursue a PhD at the museum. Our PhD candidates are employed and supervised by the museum and also affiliated with the PhD programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo.
Duty work
PhD candidates employed at the museum are employed for four year including one year dedicated to career development such as curation, teaching and outreach at the museum. This career develop or duty work can be distributed across the four-year timeframe. The composition should be varied and within the working areas of the museum, and include research, teaching and other museum-related work such as outreach and working with the collections.
This arrangement provides the PhD candidates with an opportunity to acquire valuable skills beyond their research, enhancing their resumes and future career prospects in education and curatorial positions.
International PhD candidates
We welcome applicants from all over the world. Over half of the PhD candidates at the museum are internationally recruited.
Moving to Norway
Moving to Norway can be overwhelming. The University of Oslo’s International Staff Mobility Office (ISMO) supports incoming PhD candidates and their families in transitioning to Oslo, making the move to a new country less overwhelming.
Norwegian classes
Learning Norwegian is an important step towards integration. At the Natural History Museum we encourage our international PhD candidates to learn Norwegian and cover the costs for Norwegian classes offered by the University of Oslo.
Courses we teach
The museum leads ForBio – Research School in Biosystematics that offers many relevant PhD courses, and collaborates with the departments of Biosciences and Geosciences and teaches the following PhD courses: