UCLA Postdoctoral Position
http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf
One-year
appointment beginning August 2012; possible renewal for up to two more
years.
Review of applications begins May 15; submission deadline is May
30, 2012.
We seek a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year
research project, entitled The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and
Practice in Data-Driven Science: A Knowledge Infrastructures
Perspective http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html
We
are conducting ethnographic and interview research about digital data
practices among scientists about their research design and data
collection, data analysis, data management, and data sharing with
colleagues and the public. The project sites are four distributed
data-driven research projects, two of which are ramping up their
activities and two of which are ramping down.
The project is funded by the Sloan Foundation Digital Information Technology Program
http://www.sloan.org/program/28
The principal investigator is Christine Borgman, Information Studies, UCLA
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/
http://works.bepress.com/borgman/
The co-principal investigator is Sharon Traweek, Gender Studies/History, UCLA
http://www.womensstudies.ucla.edu/faculty_traweek.html
http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek/
The
postdoctoral researcher will participate actively in the collaboration,
including the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews and
ethnographic fieldwork. The postdoctoral researcher will gain experience
in collaborative research, research project organization, and digital
data research practices. The project is based at the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and residence nearby is required for
the duration of the postdoctoral research appointment. Some travel is
required for research and conferences. We prefer applicants with
* ethnographic and interview research experience, and
*
substantial knowledge of research in the interdisciplinary fields of
Science, Technology, and Society studies (STS) and Information Studies.
The starting salary is $50,000 per year, plus benefits
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/postdoc/pdleave.htm
The
work is to be done 12 months of the year, excluding university
holidays; the postdoctoral researcher is entitled to 24 paid personal
days and 12 paid sick days per year. For further information about
postdoctoral appointments at UCLA: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/postdocs.html
UAW Local 5810 is the Union for over 6,000 Postdoctoral Researchers at the University of California. http://uaw5810.org/
Submit statement of interest, qualifications, CV, and list of three references to Sharon Traweek [log in to unmask]
or Christine Borgman [log in to unmask]
http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf
