Dear all,
See the attached advertisement for positions in UCC.
Linda
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Dr. Linda Connolly
Head of Sociology
Donovan's Road
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
Phone: 353 21 4902318/Internally ext 2318
For general departmental enquiries: email [log in to unmask]
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From: Sociological Association of Ireland,
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Subject: NCeSS Fourth International Conference on e-Social Science
Apologies for cross-posting
4th International Conference on e-Social Science Manchester, June
18th-20th, 2008
Initial Announcement and Call for Submissions
The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together
leading international representatives of the social science,
e-Infrastructure/ cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in
order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate
coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and
deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social
sciences and beyond.
We invite contributions from members of the social science,
e-Infrastructure/cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with
experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying
new methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure
technologies - such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social
science research; and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up
of e-Research.
Submission categories include: full and short papers, posters, demos,
workshops, tutorials and panels.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:
* Case studies of the application of e-Social Science research methods
to substantive social science problems
* Advances in tools and techniques for quantitative and qualitative
e-Social Science, including statistical analysis, simulation, data
mining, text mining, social network analysis and collaborative
environments
* Enabling new sources and forms of sociological data through e-Social
Science, including ethical issues and challenges in the collection,
integration, sharing and analysis of sociological and other personal
data
*The e-Research technical roadmap, including grids, web 2.0 and their
future
(co-evolution)
Important Deadlines:
Paper abstracts: January 25th, 2008.
Workshop, tutorial and panel outlines: February 22nd, 2008.
Poster and demo abstracts: March 21st, 2008.
Submission instructions will appear on the conference web site in
December.
Authors will be informed of the programme committee's decision in early
March, 2008.
For full details of this call, including a full list of topics of
interest and submission instructions, please visit
http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/call/
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