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Fully funded int’l PhD position in platform governance®ulation at UCL
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(2021-5-19 8:34)
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PhD Studentship, – Ref:1876631 UCL Department / Division: Faculty of Laws Specific unit / Sub department:Real Time Epidemiology project Location of position:London Duration of Studentship:3 years Stipend:£18,000 per annum To apply for the vacancy please email (in one email) by 18 June 2021 the following documents tophd-law@ucl.ac.ukwith the subject line “RTE PhD Application: <Your Name>”: […] The post Fully funded int’l PhD position in platform governance & regulation at UCL appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Research Associate) in Maps of Malignancy
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(2021-5-19 8:31)
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The Department of Global Health & Social Medicine is seeking a Research Associate to work as part of a research team on a research project entitled “Maps of Malignancy: Epidemiologists and Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, the project aims to shed light on epidemiological efforts to map cancer in […] The post Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Research Associate) in Maps of Malignancy appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Research Assistant in Maps of Malignancy
from Society for Social Studies of Science
(2021-5-19 8:30)
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The Department of Global Health & Social Medicine is seeking a Research Assistant to work as part of a research team on a research project entitled “Maps of Malignancy: Epidemiologists and Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award, the project aims to shed light on epidemiological efforts to map cancer in […] The post Research Assistant in Maps of Malignancy appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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2 PhD candidates and 1 post-docUniversity of Liege
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(2021-5-18 6:31)
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As part ofthe ERC-funded project “The Body Societal: UnfoldingGenomics Infrastructure in CattleLivestock Selection and Reproduction” (The BoS), the University of Liege, seeks to provide 3 positions: 2 PhD candidates (4 yrs full-time) and 1 post-doc (3 yrsfull-time). The team is intended to start by next October, 1st, 2021. Deadline for applications:Thursday June, 3rd, 2021. The […] The post 2 PhD candidates and 1 post-doc — University of Liege appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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“Write that!” On ethnography and care at the margins of a welfare society
from Society for Social Studies of Science
(2021-5-18 0:00)
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During some decades, welfare systems in the global North have seen changes in care delivery systems from care in institutions to care in the home, in different areas ranging from psychiatry to elderly care. In this project, we concentrated on this ‘home turn’ at the margins of welfare. The post “Write that!” On ethnography and care at the margins of a welfare society appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Noortje Marresawarded Fellowship to study emerging forms of accountability related to intelligent v
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(2021-5-17 21:54)
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An Empirical Philosophy of Intelligent Vehicle Testing Professor Noortje Marresfrom the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies is undertaking a Fellowship to investigate these problems and emerging forms of accountability. Intelligent technologies used to be tested in laboratories, and in remote environments such as deserts. Yet today artificial intelligence (AI) testing happens in schools, hospitals, city streets, […] The post Noortje Marresawarded Fellowship to study emerging forms of accountability related to intelligent vehicles appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Call for Book ChaptersTechnocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen
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(2021-5-17 21:47)
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Initial chapter drafts due: AUGUST 152021 Following the success of a symposium series in Spring 2021,Neda Atanasoski(Professor, University of California Santa Cruz) andNassim Parvin(Associate Professor, Georgia Tech) welcome chaptercontributions to an edited collection of essays titled,Technocreepand the Politics of Things Not Seen, with an anticipated date of publication in 2023. In recent years, discourses around […] The post Call for Book Chapters — Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Towards an Anthropology of Data
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(2021-5-17 21:43)
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Special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Volume 27, Issue S1 Currently open access until 14 June 2021. Launch event with the special issue editors Dr Rachel Douglas-Jones, Dr Antonia Walford and Dr Nick Seavers, reader/assessor Dr Katherine Smith, and contributors Dr Vijayanka Nair, Prof Tahani Nadim, Dr Alexander (A.R.E.) Taylor, Dr […] The post Towards an Anthropology of Data appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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ICWSM-Workshop on ‘Participatory Development of Quality Guidelines for Social Media Research’
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(2021-5-12 3:51)
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————————– DATE: June 7, 2021 WEBSITE: https://indiiigo.github.io/participatory-compsocsci-documentation/ ORGANIZERS: Indira Sen, Fabian Flöck, Katrin Weller (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) ————————- WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES: Do you work with or are interested in social media data? Are you interested in increasing the transparency of research which uses social media data? Look no further, because this […] The post ICWSM-Workshop on ‘Participatory Development of Quality Guidelines for Social Media Research’ appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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Smart City&Digital Sovereignty Online Workshop
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(2021-5-12 3:49)
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14-15 June 2021 (9 13 each day). Web: https://liu.se/en/article/conference-programme-smart-city Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/HatRrs2cCa Every day when you move around your hometown, data about what you do and where you go are collected by smart city sensors. While individually they cannot tell much about who you are and what you do, taken together they can form patterns […] The post Smart City & Digital Sovereignty Online Workshop appeared first on Society for Social Studies of Science .
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