<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Dear friends and fellow researchers,</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">we have two short term PhD scholarships for people who are interested to visit the CRC Media of Cooperation or who want to develop a PhD project (pre-Doc).</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Please circulate to anyone who might be interested and do not hesitate to contact me or Christoph Borbach if you have any questions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Best wishes</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Carolin Gerlitz</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">----</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">The University of Siegen is an interdisciplinary and cosmopolitan university with currently about 18,000 students and a range of subjects from the humanities, social sciences and economics to natural, engineering and life sciences. With over 2,000 employees, we are one of the largest employers in the region and offer a unique environment for teaching, research and further education.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">At the University of Siegen, as of 1 January 2022 the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1187 „Media of Cooperation“ offers</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">two Short-Term Scholarships</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">to promote the work of early-career researchers. The duration of the scholarships is 12 months. A longer-term collaboration with the goal of a doctorate within the CRC is envisaged. The basic amount of the scholarship is based on the maximum rate of the DFG (1.365,- EUR). In addition, an allowance for material expenses and, if applicable, a child allowance will be paid.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation“</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">The CRC is an interdisciplinary research network consisting of 15 projects and more than 60 scientists from the fields of media studies, science and technology studies, ethnology, sociology, linguistics and literature studies, computer science and medicine as well as history, education and engineering. It has been funded by the DFG since 2016. The CRC investigates the emergence and dissemination of digitally networked, data-intensive media and understands these as cooperatively accomplished conditions for cooperation. The research of the participating subprojects focuses on data practices that are explored in the situated interplay of media practices, infrastructures and public spheres.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">The short-term fellowship program of the CRC provides national and international doctoral students the opportunity to further develop their research project in the CRC, to get to know participating researchers and to exchange ideas with them. The research projects of the scholarship holders should be thematically related to the subprojects of the CRC, so that their work can be supported by the principal investigators and their teams. Scholarship holders are assigned to the Integrated Research Training Group (MGK) of the CRC and benefit from its structured training program. The CRC offers scholarship holders an international environment for interdisciplinary media research as well as an extensive program of events and training in ethnographic, digital, sensor-based and linguistic methods.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Further information on the CRC’s research agenda and subprojects can be found at <a href="https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en" class="">https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">Your Profile</b></span> </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">−<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Relevant, above-average degree in one of the disciplines participating in or related to the CRC, preferably in media and cultural studies, sociology or in the field of socio- or business informatics, human-computer interaction or information systems (equivalent to a Master’s degree, Magister, Diplom or Lehramt/Staatsexamen Sek. II)</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">− <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Individual research project in one of the above-mentioned disciplines within the subject area of the CRC. Ideally, you can assign the project to one of the subareas of the CRC – infrastructures, publics or praxeology</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">– <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Interest in methods of media research, the analysis of data practices and an affinity for working in an interdisciplinary research environment</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">– <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Willingness to participate in the international event program of the CRC and the MGK</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">– <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Very good written and spoken English language skills</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class="">Your Tasks</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Expectations of successful candidates:</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">–<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Regular participation and involvement in the events and the training program of the MGK (colloquia, workshops, summer schools, methodology workshops, interdisciplinary groups) </div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 14.2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">– <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Presentation of preliminary results of the individual research project within the MGK colloquium</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Equal opportunities and diversity are promoted and actively practiced at the University of Siegen. Applications from women are highly welcome and will be given special consideration in accordance with the federal state equality law. We also welcome applications from people with different personal, social and cultural backgrounds, people with disabilities and those of equal status.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">For further information contact Christoph Borbach (Tel.: +49(0)271 740-5252)</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="mailto:Christoph.Borbach@uni-siegen.de" class="">E-Mail: Christoph.Borbach@uni-siegen.de</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Please send your application documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, 5-10-page outline of a project idea) by 2 November 2021 to Christoph Borbach, Herrengarten 3, 57072 Siegen, Germany. Alternatively, you can also send your application in a single PDF file by e-mail (max. 5 MB) to <a href="mailto:Christoph.Borbach@uni-siegen.de" class="">Christoph.Borbach@uni-siegen.de</a>. Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating by unencrypted e-mail.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; min-height: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial;" class="">Information about the University of Siegen can be found on our homepage: <a href="http://www.uni-siegen.de" class="">www.uni-siegen.de</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>