PhD in Communication: Managing Team Communication in AI-Augmented Teams
Explore how AI reshapes team communication and collaboration in a Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded doctoral network.
Best for:Best for researchers with a strong background in communication, organizational psychology, or related social sciences, interested in AI’s impact on team dynamics and equipped with quantitative or mixed-methods skills.
Overview
This four-year PhD position at BI Norwegian Business School focuses on investigating how AI integration impacts team communication and collaboration dynamics. As part of the EMANAIRE project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, the successful candidate will examine behavioral, cognitive, and managerial aspects of AI-supported teamwork. The project aims to develop validated measures, tools, and workshops to enhance communication quality and critical thinking in AI-augmented teams. The candidate will contribute to international research, participate in cohort activities, and undertake a six-month intersectoral secondment.
What you'll do
- Investigate how delegating tasks to AI affects team dynamics, leadership, and critical scrutiny in AI-augmented teams.
- Develop and validate quantitative measures to capture team dynamics and communication patterns in AI-supported teams.
- Identify managerial and team-level resources that help employees adapt to AI-driven work demands.
- Study the impact of over-reliance on AI on critical thinking, skill development, and teamwork quality.
- Collaborate with the supervisory team to refine research questions, design, and prepare ethics and data-management materials.
- Complete a doctoral thesis and publish research outputs under the EMANAIRE project framework.
- Participate in local and network-wide training, cohort activities, research seminars, and practitioner engagement.
- Undertake a six-month intersectoral secondment and an academic mobility visit.
- Contribute to research integrity, equality, responsible AI, open science, and FAIR data practices.
Requirements
Degree required: Master of Science degree with thesis work, a research master’s/M.Phil. degree, or a comparable degree relevant to Communication, Media Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems, Sociology, Psychology, Management, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Law and Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Political Science, or related social science and interdisciplinary fields. An MBA degree does not meet the requirements.
Degree offered: PhD
Language: English; IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 90 (or equivalent) unless a waiver is granted.
Instruction: English
- Proven academic background in Communication, Media Studies, Organizational Psychology, or related fields.
- Strong quantitative or mixed-methods research skills, with an interest in measurement development and validation.
- Experience with surveys, experiments, field studies, team research, or psychometric analysis.
- Ability to connect individual, leader, and team-level processes in a rigorous research design.
- Strong academic writing skills and motivation to publish in international peer-reviewed journals.
- Applicant must not hold a doctoral degree.
- Applicant must comply with the MSCA mobility rule: not have resided or carried out main activity in Norway for more than 12 months in the 36 months prior to the start date.
- Applicant must be enrolled in or meet the conditions for timely enrolment in the doctoral programme.
- Applicant must have completed or be completing a qualifying master’s degree by the start date with a grade point average of B or higher.
Funding & terms
How to apply
Deadline: unknown (open until filled) · open until filled
Applicants must submit their application electronically through the BI Norwegian Business School application system. Required documents include a master’s degree certificate with transcripts, bachelor’s degree certificate with transcripts, a Diploma Supplement, a 2,000-word research proposal, CV, two letters of recommendation, certificates of doctoral-level courses (if applicable), a list of publications, and a signed verification document. Non-Nordic applicants without an English-taught master’s degree must provide TOEFL or IELTS scores unless a waiver is granted.
- Certificate of Master’s degree with transcripts
- Certificate of Bachelor’s degree with transcripts
- Diploma Supplement or equivalent
- Other relevant certificates and transcripts
- 2,000-word original research project proposal
- Curriculum Vitae
- Two letters of recommendation
- Certificates of previously completed doctoral-level courses (if applicable)
- Complete list of publications and relevant activities
- Signed verification document
Contact
Suzanne van Gils· Professor
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