Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University welcomes 2025-2026 fellowships applications. Fellows will reside in Cambridge, MA, to conduct independent work in collaboration with BKC faculty, staff, students, and the broader BKC community. Through this call, the Center will accept candidates across three tracks: Academic fellowships for full-time faculty members; Post-doc fellowships for scholars who have recently completed their PhDs or equivalent; Non-academic fellowships for accomplished practitioners from outside the academy.
Published On: Apr 10 2025
Deadline: Apr 30, 2025
The Postdoctoral Visitor (PDV) will work on an international project for two-and-half years. The project title is “Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era” and is funded by the Open Research Area 8 initiative through SSHRC (Canada), ESRC (UK), ANR (France), and DFG (Germany). The PDV will be working directly for Prof Birch on the Canadian part of the project but will also work with the other project partners. This project is a comparative study of the roles and relevance of open versus commercial digital research informati...
Published On: Apr 8 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025
The Land Institute is hiring an Ecosphere Fellow who will collaboratively lead the next iteration of The Land Institute's fellows program, focused on envisioning the human future within ecological limits. This is a two-year, full-time position. The Ecosphere Fellow will also actively participate in the program through their own research.
Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: May 31, 2025
The Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (Momentum PPDF) is an initiative designed to attract and nurture up to 35 exceptional postdoctoral researchers from around the globe to “Lendület”, Momentum research groups in Hungary. The Momentum MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme is co-funded by the European Commission and the Secretariat of MTA, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, under the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant. This 5-year initiative offers unparalleled opportunities for career advancement and scientific excellence.
Published On: Dec 9 2024
Deadline: Jun 1, 2025
The Ethical Legal Implications of Psychedelics in Society (ELIPSIS) Program in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Associate for a two-year non-laboratory research position. The selected candidate will support the Director of the Center, Dr. Amy McGuire, on funded research related to psychedelic ethics and policy, which includes: Being a catalyst for increasing the quality and quantity of research on ethical and policy issues related to the therapeutic use of psychedelics; Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team ...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...