> De : Nico Carpentier <[log in to unmask]>
> Date : 21 avril 2008 15:00:11 HAEC
> À : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : [ecrea] Ph.D. and Post.doc scholarships: Virtual Worlds
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> Ph.D. and Post.doc scholarships: Virtual Worlds
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> The research project "Sense-making strategies and the user-driven  
> innovations in Virtual Worlds" (2008-2011) – funded by the Danish  
> Strategic Research Council, KINO – offers two full, 3-year Ph.D.  
> scholarships and one 2-year Post.doc scholarship. The start date is  
> 1 July 2008
> One of the Ph.D. scholarships and the Post.doc scholarship will be  
> located in the Research Group, Communication Forms and Knowledge  
> Production, Department of Communication, Business and Information  
> Technologies (CBIT), Roskilde University. One Ph.D. scholarship  
> will be located in the research group, LIKE – Leadership,  
> Innovation, Knowledge and Entrepreneurship, Department of  
> Management, Politics and Philosophy (LPF), Copenhagen Business  
> School, Denmark.
>
> The overall aim of the research project is to gain theoretically-  
> and empirically-based insight into avatar-based virtual worlds as  
> sites for user-driven innovation. The project works with an  
> understanding of innovation as socially and culturally specific  
> processes of meaning-making in which learning takes place and  
> knowledge is constructed, negotiated and shared. One key focus  
> point is the role of conceptions of space, body and person in  
> shaping the design and use of, and changes in, avatar-based virtual  
> worlds. Another key focus point is how we can re-work existing  
> theories and methods - including approaches developed to study  
> other forms of computer-mediated interaction - in order to take  
> account of the specific characteristics of virtual worlds.
>
> The project works within and across three topic areas in relation  
> to innovation in virtual worlds:
> 1) market dynamics and management, 2) social and cultural  
> innovation and 3) knowledge construction. We seek applications that  
> propose empirically-oriented Ph.D. and Post.doc projects either  
> within one of these topic areas or across two or all of the topic  
> areas. More information about the research project - including a  
> detailed project description - can be found at the project website  
> <http://worlds.ruc.dk/>http://worlds.ruc.dk.
>
> The application should include:
> ·       A project description outlining the research design,  
> consisting of research question(s) and aim(s), contribution to the  
> research field, theories and methods, and a research timetable (5  
> pages excluding references)
> ·       CV listing relevant educational and professional  
> qualifications and publications
> ·       Maximum 5 publications (including masters' dissertation)
>
> The application form can be downloaded at: http://www.ruc.dk/cbit/ 
> Forskeruddannelse/blanketter/
>
> The Ph.D. scholarships entail that the students, over the 3-year  
> period of study, gain experience of teaching, or another type of  
> communication of knowledge, that is related as much as possible to  
> the Ph.D. project in progress. The extent of teaching/knowledge  
> communication is based on the Cirkulære om overenskomst for  
> akademikere i staten of 22 December 2005.
>
> Salary and other conditions of employment are based on agreement  
> between the Ministry of Finance and AC.
>
> Those who have obtained Masters' degrees (including Danish  
> "Candidate" degree) or expect to gain a Masters' degree in the near  
> future can apply for the Ph.D. scholarships, and those who have  
> obtained a Ph.D. degree or expect to gain a Ph.D. degree in the  
> near future can apply for the Post.doc scholarship.
>
> Roskilde University encourages applications from all those who are  
> interested regardless of age, sex, religion or ethnicity.
>
> To obtain further details about the scholarships, you are welcome  
> to contact Research manager, Associate Professor Sisse Siggaard  
> Jensen, Roskilde University, telephone 4674 3771 or email:  
> [log in to unmask], and Associate Professor Maja Horst, Copenhagen  
> Business School, telephone  3815 2826 or email [log in to unmask]
>
> In 2009 one Ph.D. scholarship located at CBIT, Roskilde University  
> and one Post.Doc scholarship located at LPF, Copenhagen Business  
> School will be offered and advertised in Spring 2009.
>
> The deadline for applications is 15 May 2008, 12 Noon. 5 copies of  
> the application (including 5 copies of each attached publication)  
> should be labelled "Ph.D./virtual worlds" and sent to:
>
> Roskilde University
> Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies
> Ph.D. administration: Annette Nørballe
> Postbox 260, Building. 42.2.15
> 4000 Roskilde
> Denmark
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