AAAS-TWAS | Course on Science Diplomacy

Published On: Jan 13 2025

Deadline: Jan 23, 2025

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Washington, DC, USA, and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Trieste, Italy, are seeking candidates to participate in the annual summer course on science diplomacy to be held on 21-24 July, 2025 in person in Trieste, Italy.
The AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy training program was established in 2014 to expose scientists, decisionmakers, diplomats and other interested stakeholders and institutions to science diplomacy concepts, explore key contemporary international policy issues relating to science, technology, environment and he...

William & Mary | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities

Published On: Mar 3 2025

Deadline: Mar 14, 2025

We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies. In this appointment, the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda. In addition, the postdoc will work with faculty mentors on a project on Multispecies Politics. The successful applicant will also be required to organize ENSP 250, a 1-credit lecture series, in the Spring semester of their first year and design and teach a new 3 or 4 credit course of their choosing in both the Fall and Spring semesters of their second year.

ASU | Winter School on Emerging Technologies

Published On: Oct 4 2024

Deadline: Oct 7, 2024

The Winter School on Emerging Technologies: Accelerating Impactful Scholarship will be held January 3-10, 2025 in Arizona. Winter School provides junior scholars and scientists an introduction to and practical experience with methods and theory for better understanding the social dimensions of emerging technologies. The 2025 program will be focused on the broad notion of impact with an aim to explore ways for participants to increase and diversify the impact of their work.

CfP | Strengthening Comparative Research and Critical Thinking on Academic Freedom in the Americas

Published On: Oct 18 2024

Deadline: Oct 28, 2024

This Call for Research is sponsored by the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas and by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, within the framework of its Platforms for Social Dialogue Project, and has the following objectives: to deepen knowledge and understanding of the issue of academic freedom in the Americas; to create a critical mass of researchers throughout the region capable of contributing to this field of research; to disseminate research findings in written and oral form, through CAFA and CLACSO websites, and through workshops and seminars, establishing dialogues w...

CfP | InterAcademy Partnership Competitive Grants

Published On: Oct 18 2024

Deadline: Dec 2, 2024

The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) invites proposals from IAP member academies and regional networks, for projects that would help advance IAP’s mission and strategic goals. Proposed projects should preferably be collaborative across member academies and regional networks. Priority will be given to project proposals that aim to establish or continue support for collaborations across disciplines (for example, collaborations across academies of science, medicine and engineering), especially in areas linked with recent or ongoing IAP projects, and/or involve long-term IAP member academies a...

Vassar | Postdoctoral Fellow - Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program

Published On: Mar 3 2025

Deadline: Mar 17, 2025

The STS Program is seeking a candidate who will be able to help develop particular areas of our curriculum focused on digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and/or data science and society. Vassar College is committed to excellence in undergraduate research and teaching, so candidates should demonstrate a shared commitment to these. Teaching experience is preferred, but not required. Teaching responsibilities will include two courses per year, in addition to mentoring a small cohort of senior thesis projects. A Ph.D. in STS, or a related field, is required for this position.

Max Planck | Postdoctoral Researcher on Technology and Sovereignty

Published On: Mar 3 2025

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) currently seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in the social sciences to join our Lise Meitner Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty. The starting date for the position is October 1, 2025, or by agreement. This new research group, directed by Dr. Carola Westermeier, will focus on technologies and infrastructures in the context of geopolitical tensions and heightened security. It analyzes how reconfigurations of socioeconomic relations that are engendered by articulations of security manifest in concrete technologi...

University of Edinburgh | Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, AI and International Law Postdoc

Published On: Jan 23 2025

Deadline: Feb 28, 2025

An opportunity for two post-doctoral researchers to join an interdisciplinary research project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law. This project is investigating how AI and automated decision-making processes are reshaping global security law and governance, focusing on three areas: (i) digital border practices, (ii) the governance of terrorist and violent extremist content online by platforms, and (iii) counterterrorism watchlisting systems. Researchers from other social science disciplin...

Max Planck | Doctoral Positions

Published On: Feb 14 2025

Deadline: Feb 28, 2025

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) conducts basic research on the governance of modern societies. It aims to develop an empirically based theory of the social and political foundations of modern economies by investigating the interrelation between economic, social, and political action. We are currently seeking to recruit up to two Doctoral Researchers for our Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty. The starting date is October 1, 2025.

Maastricht | Making and Design in Hospitals Postdoc

Published On: Jan 7 2025

Deadline: Feb 20, 2025

The Department of Society Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to undertake exciting research about hospital practices. You will be part of a new team doing research helping to address the escalating issue of clinical waste. The project is called The Upcycled Clinic: A global ethnography of material creativity in contemporary medicine. The focus of this European Research Council funded project is on hospitals and clinics, which have become sites of disposability in recent years. Attempts to address this can be top-down and technocratic, often still reliant on a mode of further prod...

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