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Published On: Apr 13 2025
Deadline: Jun 21, 2025
The editorial group of Science, Technology, & Human Values is happy to announce the journal’s annual Call for Proposals for Special Issues. Since 1972, Science, Technology, & Human Values has provided a forum for cutting-edge research and debate in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). This is a collectively edited, peer-reviewed, transnational, interdisciplinary journal containing research, analyses and commentary on the development and dynamics of science and technology, with a focus on their relationship to politics, economy, society and culture. ST&HV publi...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Aug 1, 2025
The SG Academies South-East Asia Fellowship (SASEAF) Programme aims to facilitate meaningful collaborations between Singapore’s distinguished research institutions and promising postdoctoral researchers from South-East Asia. This fellowship offers a 2-year opportunity to engage in impactful research that contributes to advancements in their respective fields.
Published On: Jun 5 2025
Deadline: Jun 30, 2025
Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned Special Issue (SI) of Australian Feminist Studies devoted to underexplored and novel feminist methods and interventions on AI ethics. While dominant approaches to AI ethics have been focused on reductive notions of bias or value checklists for reducing harms, intersectional feminist scholars have built upon genealogies of feminist scholarship to identify and outline the broader and more nuanced ethical issues that arise in the design and application of such technologies. For example, conversations around bias often assume that b...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 25, 2025
In partnership with the Hatchery Modernization Team at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Aquatic Research Cooperative Institute at SFU, the Fisheries Management Lab is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher to lead a project on social-ecological traps associated with hatcheries. This project aims to identify types of socio-ecological traps, risk factors, and potential mitigations to aid in hatchery modernization efforts. Specifically, this project involves conducting a literature review of social-ecological traps associated with enhancement, conducting interviews with staff and partners (r...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 2, 2025
We announce this issue during an unprecedented attack by the current US administration on the largest public research funds in the world. The AI boom is the latest in a series of economic shocks further pushing the academy towards private interests. We are in the midst of ongoing imperialist war and genocide that are inextricable from the politics of science and technology, and stumbling recovery efforts from a pandemic that left the world more dependent on, and yet less trusting of, public health institutions. Under such conditions, a discussion of political economy in science is timely. Howe...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
The High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) at Princeton University is accepting applications for the 2026-2027 HMEI Environmental Fellows Program. This postdoctoral program seeks scholars from all disciplines across the sciences, engineering, policy, and the humanities. The fellowship supports early career scholars in developing their research within a highly collaborative community of environmental scholars.
Published On: Jun 17 2025
Deadline: Aug 15, 2025
As climate risks intensify, the idea of “climate havens”—and the identification of regions like the Great Lakes as more resilient to environmental change—raises pressing questions about space, belonging, justice, resources, and community. This symposium will explore climate havens through historical, philosophical, artistic, literary, and cultural perspectives, organized around three central themes: 1. What Is a Haven? 2. Whose Haven Is It? 3. Climate Havens and Natural Resources
Published On: May 15 2025
Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
The Advanced Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (AI-HSS) of The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is seeking outstanding scholars at all career stages to strengthen our research and teaching capabilities in the ethics and philosophy of science and technology. Successful candidates will join either the Research Center for Ethics and Governance of Science and Technology or the Research Center for Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science and Technology, conducting cutting-edge research on ethical, philosophical, and governance issues related to emerging te...
Published On: Jun 10 2025
Deadline: Jul 28, 2025
Third-party conception or reproduction involves using donated eggs, sperm or embryos, or a surrogate, to help individuals or couples have a child. Being able to start and build a family is frequently seen as personally, culturally and socially important. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for example, describes the family as the “fundamental unit of society”. For many people, third-party conception is critical in achieving this goal, particularly for single individuals, individuals in same-sex relationships, and mixed-sex couples experiencing infertility.
Published On: May 8 2025
Deadline: May 19, 2025
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher with expertise in cultural anthropology, critical urban studies and/or science and technology studies. The ideal candidate has strong qualifications in qualitative empirical research as well as a proven record of engaging with concepts and theories of technology, urbanism and culture. The research will primarily concentrate on ethnographies of urban politics of artificial cold and local cultures of cooling as well as on the history and theory of artificial atmospheres and thermal governance. Fieldwork will require travel to relevant urban sites around t...