[spectre] Job offers: Six 3 year PhD positions for digital media research at "Media of Cooperation", University of Siegen Germany

[Carolin Gerlitz]

Dear Colleagues,

the cooperative research center “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen, Germany has six 3 year PhD positions in the field of digital media, inventive methods, digital praxeology, AI/HCI, platform studies etc starting from January 2021. The application deadline is Oct 01 2020.

“Media of Cooperation” is an interdisciplinary research group that explores the cooperative accomplishment of media at the intersection of STS, HCI and media studies, focusing on infrastructural and public media. In its second funding period the center focuses among other things on data practices, data publics and sensor media. More information can be found here: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/ <https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/>
Interested candidates can realise their own resaearch project whilst being part of our internal graduate school which offers in depth methodological training in the field of digital methods, digital ethnography and inventive methods.

Please forward the job offers to anyone interested. If you wish to discuss the position, please do not hesitate to contact me carolin.gerlitz at uni-siegen.de <mailto:carolin.gerlitz at uni-siegen.de> or our scientific coordinator Timo Kaerlein timo.kaerlein at uni-siegen.de <mailto:timo.kaerlein at uni-siegen.de>.

The job offers can be found here: https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiterinnen-SFB-1187-Medien-der-Kooperation-57072/619352601/ <https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiterinnen-SFB-1187-Medien-der-Kooperation-57072/619352601/>
And here: https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiterinnen-SFB-1187-Medien-der-Kooperation-57072/619356501/ <https://jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiterinnen-SFB-1187-Medien-der-Kooperation-57072/619356501/> 

With kind regards 

Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz

Professor Digital Media and Methods 

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We are looking for:

Starting on 1 January 2021, four doctoral posts in cultural and social studies (media research) are available at the University of Siegen in the integrated graduate school (MGK) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, subject to the following conditions:

65% = 25,89 weekly hours
Pay group 13  TV-L
temporary 31.12.2023
Your tasks:

Independent conception and realisation of a research project in the thematic area of the CRC, especially invited are ethnographic research projects of digital practices
Regular participation and involvement in the events and the training program of the MGK (colloquia, workshops, summer schools, methodology workshops, interdisciplinary groups)
Presentation of preliminary results of the individual research project within the MGK colloquium and in the context of relevant (international) conferences
Your profile:

Relevant, above-average degree in one of the following disciplines participating in or related to the CRC: media studies, anthropology, geography, history, cultural studies, literary studies, linguistics, political science, education, sociology, science and technology studies, or similar (equivalent to a Master’s degree)
Individual research project in one of the above-mentioned disciplines within the subject area of the CRC, specifically in the field of historical or contemporary qualitative research of a digital practice (project outline of max. 10 pages, including a work plan; please make explicit the connection to the research framework of the CRC)
Interest in methods of media research, particularly praxeological research approaches and an affinity for working in an interdisciplinary research environment
Willingness to participate in the international event program of the CRC and the MGK
Good written and spoken German and English language skills
Our offer:

Suport for further academic qualification (doctorate), in compliance with the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz
Many opportunities of co-creating the program of the Integrated Graduate School
A number of offers like flexible work hours, university pension scheme, dual career service, coaching/mentoring and a comprehensive personnel development program
Applications (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, letter of recommendation by a university lecturer referring to the intended research project, outline (max. 10 pages) of a project idea plus bibliography and work plan) are possible until 01.10.2020.

Contact:

Dr. Timo Kaerlein

0049 (0)271 / 740 - 5251

 

 

We are looking for:

Starting on 1 January 2021, two doctoral posts in digital humanities, (socio-)informatics, human-computer interaction or data science (with a focus on media research) are available at the University of Siegen in the integrated graduate school (MGK) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1187 “Media of Cooperation”, subject to the following conditions:

65% = 25,89 weekly hours
Pay group 13  TV-L
temporary 31.12.2023
Your tasks:

Independent conception and realisation of a research project in the thematic area of the CRC, especially in the field of development and ethnographic research of a digital practice (augmented reality, artificial intelligence, social robotics, machine learning, sensor-based media, conversational interfaces, among others)
Regular participation and involvement in the events and the training program of the MGK (colloquia, workshops, summer schools, methodology workshops, interdisciplinary groups)
Presentation of preliminary results of the individual research project within the MGK colloquium and in the context of relevant (international) conferences
Your profile:

Relevant, above-average degree in one of the following disciplines participating in or related to the CRC: digital humanities, (socio-)informatics, business information science, human-computer interaction, data science, information systems, or similar (equivalent to a Master’s degree)
Individual research project in one of the above-mentioned disciplines within the subject area of the CRC, specifically in the development and research of a digital practice with a qualitative approach (project outline of max. 10 pages, including a work plan; please make explicit the connection to the research framework of the CRC)
Interest in methods of media research, praxeological research approaches and an affinity for working in an interdisciplinary research environment
Willingness to participate in the international event program of the CRC and the MGK
Good written and spoken German and English language skills
Our offer:

Suport for further academic qualification (doctorate), in compliance with the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz
Many opportunities of co-creating the program of the Integrated Graduate School
A number of offers like flexible work hours, university pension scheme, dual career service, coaching/mentoring and a comprehensive personnel development program
 

 

Applications (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, letter of recommendation by a university lecturer referring to the intended research project, outline (max. 10 pages) of a project idea plus bibliography and work plan) are possible until 01.10.2020.

Contact:

Dr. Timo Kaerlein

0049 (0)271 / 740 - 5251



Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz
Professor Digital Media and Methods

Co-Speaker DFG Graduate School Locating Media <http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/en/>
Deputy Speaker DFG CRC Media of Cooperation <https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/>

University of Siegen
Room AH 129
Herrengarten 3 
D-57072 Siegen
carolin.gerlitz at uni-siegen.de
https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz_carolin/ <https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz_carolin/>

Sekretariat: Vera Beer, AR-H 410
+49-(0)271-740-4692
sekretariat-ii at medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de


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