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...
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: 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: Jan 7 2025
Deadline: Feb 28, 2025
The Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities (IBHH) at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) invites applications for two Research Fellows. This mentored fellowship program is intended for scholars who have recently completed their PhD or other terminal degree or will have defended by Summer 2025. Research Fellows will be integrated into interdisciplinary research projects while also being afforded time to focus on their own research. This is an ideal opportunity for humanities and social science scholars to gain experience working in a dynamic, multidisciplinary unit within an ...
Published On: Feb 10 2025
Deadline: Mar 1, 2025
The Center for Science, Technology, and Public Life (STPL), housed within the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, is seeking a Postdoctoral Scholar – Research Associate to support a new collaborative research project entitled “The City on Life Support: Los Angeles as a Laboratory for Planetary Health.”
“The City on Life Support” brings together USC faculty from multiple schools and disciplines to address the numerous “life-support systems” — such as water provision, sewerage, electricity, and logistics — that ...
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...
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: Oct 14 2024
Deadline: Oct 22, 2024
In conjunction with the Charles Perkins Centre, the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a PhD in Science and technology studies or medical anthropology or a related field. In this 24-month fixed-term role, the successful applicant will conduct research focused on the social, political, and epistemic aspects of medical research and public health. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with a multidisciplinary research team, advancing knowledge in science and technology studies, medical anthropology, and clin...
Published On: Oct 14 2024
Deadline: Nov 1, 2024
The Energy Stories Lab at the University of Calgary and Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher for one year to work on projects related to documenting energy transition and community change in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (Northern Alberta). The postdoctoral researcher will be affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, and will collaborate with the Energy Stories Lab and the Ingenium Research Institute to develop new lines of research related to current projects on energy transition,...
Published On: Oct 10 2024
Deadline: Nov 15, 2024
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 (Make Do Medicine for short). The project focuses on the unexplored yet potentially insightful practices of material creativity where existing materials are being repurposed for another use.
Queries: makedomedicine-fasos@maastrichtuniversity.nl