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».
CEMO provides a stimulating research environment by bringing internationally renowned substantive and methodological experts together. Research at CEMO combines basic research and applications of advanced measurement techniques to solve core educational problems. CEMO also contributes to the development of measurement competence through teaching and outreach.