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Research Opportunities at the University of Limerick
Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society
The scholarship arises as a result of the University of Limerick's participation in the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) which brings together expertise from eight Irish institutional partners and 19 academic disciplines to create a truly all-island, interdisciplinary platform for social science research. ISSP has been granted €16.5m as part of the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI), Cycle 4.
The scholarship is to conduct research as part of the “Nomadic work/lives in the knowledge economy project”, which involves collaboration between the Department of Sociology, Women’s Studies and the Interaction Design Centre (IDC), Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at UL.
The nomadic work/lives project is concerned then with investigating the relationships between a technologically-mediated knowledge economy, mobile/nomadic work and non-work life practices. The project starts out with the question of whether, as the academic literature suggests, new work/life patterns are emerging; if so, how these might be most plausibly theorised; what their gendered implications for work and home life are; and how everyday work/life practices are technologically mediated. The project brings together concerns and issues pertaining to the societal and identity-related matters of ‘being mobile’, and the interaction design and computer-supported cooperative work tradition studies of workplace and technology use.
PhD Practices of technologically-mediated nomadicity in the knowledge economy
Within the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Interaction Design, an increasing attention is being paid to aspects of mobile and nomadic activities that interactive technology can support. More recently, work has been conducted to highlight situated aspects of mobility. For example, Kakihara and Sorensen have suggested how “mobility” as a notion needs to be unpacked into not simply a location-related notion, but in terms of interactional practices (Kakihara and Sorensen, 2005). Brown and O’Hara (2003) have argued how place constitutes a crucial practical concern for mobile workers, as they are constantly situated within a lived environment.
This PhD will explore issues related to the technological mediation of nomadic practices: how do place, activities and the social world constitute the experience of nomadic users? In what way technologies are shaping people’s work/life on the move? What are the aspects of mobile interaction that design could meaningfully support?
The research will be situated within the research areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Interaction Design
For queries regarding this position, contact Dr. Luigina Ciolfi ([log in to unmask])
Scholarships are for four years subject to satisfactory annual review.
The stipend is €17,000 p.a. and fees are covered.
More information regarding the project is available at: http://richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/NomadicWorkLifeInformationforApplicants1.doc
The closing date for applications is June 6th 2008.
Further details on the topics and application process are available from:
Niamh Lenahan, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Tel: +353-61-202945 Email: [log in to unmask]
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Dr. Luigina Ciolfi
Course Director, Digital Media Design
Interaction Design Centre, ER1 005
Dept. of Computer Science & Information
Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland
Tel. +353 61 213530
Fax. +353 61 213484
Skype: luigina.ciolfi
web: http://www.idc.ul.ie
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