<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Dear all,</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">the graduate school “Locating Media” at the <a href="https://www.uni-siegen.de/start/index.html.en" class="">University of Siegen</a> has a post-doc vacancy for 3 years with the possibility of extension. “Locating Media” focuses on studying media ‘in motion’ and ‘in situ’ and aims to develop inventive mobile and digital methods for media research: <a href="http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/" class="">www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Please spread the word and get in touch if you are interested in applying! </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Best wishes</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Carolin Gerlitz</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">------</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">The University of Siegen is an innovative institution with an emphasis on an interdisciplinary orientation and has about 20,000 students and 2,000 employees, including 1,200 academic positions. There is a broad spectrum of departments, ranging from liberal arts, social sciences, and economics through to natural sciences and engineering, and the University of Siegen provides an outstanding teaching and research environment with numerous inter/transdisciplinary research projects. The University of Siegen offers diverse options for combining professional and family life. For this reason, it has been certified as a family-friendly university since 2006 and provides a dual career service.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Starting on April 1st 2017, </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">one full-time (100% fte) post-doctoral post</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class="">(salary category TV-L 13)</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">is available at the University of Siegen in the German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate School, GRK 1769 "Locating Media", for the fixed-term period of three years, with the possibility for extension (according to DFG standards). The duration of the contract complies with the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Locating Media</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">The Graduate School "Locating Media" was set up in 2012 and has focused on researching historical and current media practices 'in motion' and 'in situ'. The main objective of “Locating Media” is to facilitate a methodological re-orientation of interdisciplinary media research by engaging with locational and situational analyses and the development of new methods for the analysis and design of mobile digital media. In the second phase of funding, the existing expertise in ethnographic methodologies will be expanded to include digital and mobile methods, to investigate the increased mobility and distributed spatiality of media and data processes.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">The German Research Foundation (DFG) Graduate School provides an international environment for inventive and interdisciplinary media research by offering an intensive training programme, joint events with collaboration partners, training in relevant ethnographic, digital and mobile methods and the possibility of field research and research abroad. The research program will be realised in close collaboration with international partners and supporters, such as the Digital Ethnography Research Centre in Melbourne (RMIT), the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (Warwick University), Centre for Science Studies and Mobilities Lab at Lancaster University and other collaborators.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">More information on the profile and program can be found here: <a href="http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/" class="">www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Job description:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">We expect:</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– attendance of the Research Training Group events such as workshops, international conferences, intensive workshops and summer schools.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">–<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #3366ff" class=""> </span>regular presentation of interim findings of individual research projects during internal events (Research Colloquium, Lecture Series) and during conferences.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– co-organisation of workshops and international conferences in collaboration with our international partners</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– publication of the research project in relevant specialist journals and supervision of publications.</div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">This is a position for obtaining further academic qualifications (Habilitation), for which the ongoing media research in Siegen, for instance in the context of the collaborative research centre 1187 </b><a href="https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/" class="">"Media of Cooperation"</a><b class=""> provides a stimulating environment. The opportunity for this is provided within the scope of official duties.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Your profile:</b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">− outstanding doctoral degree in one of the following areas of study: media studies, history, information science, cultural studies, literary studies, linguistics, ethnology, political science, sociology, Science and Technology Studies.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– outstanding scholarly achievements.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– research project in one of the areas of study listed above (10-page project prospectus including timetable).</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– familiarity with media research and social science methods and interest in methodological innovation.</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18.9px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.9px;" class="">– willingness to participate in the Graduate School’s activities and to contribute toward their conceptual development.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">– good spoken and written German and English.</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">The University of Siegen is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with its policy of increasing the proportion of women in this type of employment, the University actively encourages applications from women. The University facilitates a viable combination of professional and family needs.</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">For candidates with equivalent qualifications, preference will be given to people with physical disabilities.</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">For further information, please contact Herr Dr. Pablo Abend (Tel.: +49 271/740-2080)</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:abend@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de" class="">abend@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Homepage: <a href="http://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia" class="">www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia</a> </div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Please send application documents (CV, copies of diplomas and certificates, letter of recommendation from a professor concerning the research project, approx. 10-page project prospectus, including task schedule) in duplicate by <b class="">January 5</b><span style="font-size: 10px;" class=""><b class=""><sup class="">th</sup></b></span><b class=""> 2017</b> with reference number <b class="">2016/I/Locating Media/WM/264 </b>to the program address: Dr. Pablo Abend, Universität Siegen, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg „Locating Media“, Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang 50, 57076 Siegen, Germany.</div><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class="">Information on the University of Siegen is available online: <a href="http://www.uni-siegen.de/" class="">www.uni-siegen.de</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class="">----</div><br style="text-align: start;" class=""><div style="text-align: start;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Prof. Dr. Carolin Gerlitz<br class="">Professor for Media Studies, Digital Media and Methods / Professur Digitale Medientechnologien</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">University of Siegen</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Room AE-B 108<br class="">Am Eichenhang 50 <br class="">57076 Siegen</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">+49-(0)271-740-5150<br class=""><div class=""><a href="mailto:carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de" class="">carolin.gerlitz@uni-siegen.de</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz_carolin/?lang=" class="">https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/medienwissenschaft/personal/lehrende/gerlitz_carolin/?lang=</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sekretariat: Vera Beer, AR-H 410</div><div class="">+49-(0)271-740-4692<br class=""><a href="mailto:sekretariat-ii@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de" class="">sekretariat-ii@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>