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University of Oslo

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE)

University of Oslo, Wind Lake, Wisconsin, United States

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Organisation/Company University of Oslo Research Field Educational sciences Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions Postdoc Positions Country Norway Application Deadline 15 Jan 2026 - 23:00 (Europe/Oslo) 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

Offer Description Applicants are invited for a three to four year fulltime position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research on Equality in Education (CREATE), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The position has a double affiliation with the Centre for Educational Measurement (CEMO).

CREATE is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway with the objective to generate novel knowledge about how to reduce inequalities in education. The interdisciplinary center integrates researchers with substantive expertise from education, psychology, sociology, economics, and genetics, and methodological expertise from educational measurement, psychometrics, econometrics, statistics, and biostatistics. The Postdoctoral fellowship is affiliated with CREATE’s research strand 3 «Addressing key methodological challenges».

The position is tied to CREATE’s strand 3. Strand 3 aims to develop novel methods and statistical software that are tailor‑made to the research questions and data of CREATE.

The successful candidate will conduct advanced methodological and psychometric research. Potential topics include addressing measurement quality issues related to respondent non‑compliance in ecological momentary assessment or exploring the use of machine learning techniques to aid the estimation of item response theory (IRT) models in small samples.

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute CREATE - Centre for Research on Equality in Education Country Norway Geofield

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