Dear lists,
a job posting in the Netherlands for your information
Zur Information, eine Stellenausschreibung in den Niederlanden
best wishes / Lieben Gruß
nilz
Forwarded message:
> From: Tjerk Timan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Nils Zurawski <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: job opening for surveillance & society audience
> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:55:41 +0200
>
> Dear Nils,
>
> Hope all is well. For a very challenging ERC project, there are some
> jobs opening in the field of software studies/ critical data science.
> Would it be possible to post the description below either on the
> mailinglist and/or on the SSN website? Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Best,
>
> Tjerk Timan
> Tjerk Timan, MA, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Researcher “Privacy for the 21st century” Tilburg
> Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), Tilburg University,
> The Netherlands
> Visiting Scholar at the School of Management, St. Andrews, UK
>
> mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> web: privacyspaces.org <http://privacyspaces.org/> / tjerktiman.nl
> <http://tjerktiman.nl/>
> twitter: @tjerk
> skype: tjerktiman
> ssrn: http://ssrn.com/author=2322732 <http://ssrn.com/author=2322732>
> .
> ——————
>
>
> The Department of Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS)
> <https://www.utwente.nl/bms/steps/> at the University of Twente is
> hiring one doctoral researcher with a background in Computer Sciences
> to join the ERC-funded project ‘Processing Citizenship: Digital
> registration of migrants as co-production of citizens, territory and
> Europe’ (ProcessCitizenship), with Dr. Annalisa Pelizza
> <https://www.utwente.nl/bms/steps/people/scientific/pelizza/>as
> Principal Investigator. The position is fully-funded and requires
> commitment to the project’s goals.
>
> Project and work description
> In the Processing Citizenship project we want to learn how data
> infrastructures for migration management transform the way we come to
> experience European (individual and institutional) identities.
> As a PhD, you have a strong computer science background – notably in
> data analytics, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence or
> related fields – while at the same time you should be interested in
> working in an interdisciplinary team, with heterogeneous but
> complementary research goals. You are expected to analyse ontologies
> and algorithms, to compare them across different institutional
> information systems, to design and develop strategies to measure and
> enhance data quality under uncertain conditions, to increase
> interoperability among databases, and to develop systems to track and
> visualize data circulation.
> The appointee will work as part of a trans-disciplinary team of six,
> including ethnographers, computer scientists and social scientists,
> under the supervision of the Principal Investigator and co-supervision
> by CTIT, the Institute for ICT research in Context (CTIT,
> https://www.utwente.nl/ctit/ <https://www.utwente.nl/ctit/>).
>
> Activities
> You will be presented with three main research challenges. The first
> challenge requires to extract and analyse data models from
> heterogeneous institutional sources. The second challenge will require
> you to design strategies for increasing data quality across
> not-yet-interoperable data architectures and in uncertain conditions.
> The third challenge will require you to engage in interdisciplinary
> work with non-technical team members, as required by this
> inter-disciplinary ERC project.
>
> In particular, you will be expected to conduct the following
> activities:
> - to conduct techno-social analysis of data models and algorithms (in
> collaboration with other team members), e.g., how are the same types
> of data classified in different information systems, and with which
> effects?;
> - to design and develop strategies to measure and enhance data quality
> under uncertain conditions, and increase interoperability of
> migrant-related databases (in collaboration with CTIT’s data science
> group);
> - to design and develop software to track and visualize data
> circulation (in collaboration with UT’s ITC faculty);
> - to provide support to interviews with IT developers at European and
> national agencies level.
>
> Profile
> You have a master degree in Computer Sciences, Data Science,
> Information Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Business IT or close
> disciplines.
>
> Essential:
> · Master degree completed by the deadline
> · Highly proficient in data analysis and management
> · Expert understanding of database architectures, including
> interpreting data sets modelled in heterogeneous ways
> · Proficiency in English as daily working language
> · Commitment to the project’s success, willingness to
> collaborate in a research team, share data, write joint publications
> and acquire social science-related skills
> · Excellent administrative and organizational skills,
> including the ability to plan one’s work, meet deadlines,
> familiarity with resource management and willingness to accept
> Horizon2020 administrative and ethical behaviour guidelines
>
> Desirable
> · Experience as non-graduate student supervisor
> · Understanding of the potential non-academic impact of the
> research and ways of engaging with it
> · Knowledge of major sociological literature on data
> infrastructures
>
> By the end of the program, even if this is not the core of your
> activities, you will also acquire skills in sociological analysis of
> information systems. A similar combination of techno-social skills is
> not only more and more key to access middle-high positions in
> engineering environments, but it is also functional to achieve a
> thorough understanding of the social impact of data infrastructures.
> You will develop cutting-edge research skills, e.g. by being able to
> acknowledge and tackle the methodological limitations and design
> constraints that software-based techniques impose on hypothesis
> formulation and testing.
>
> Conditions of employment
> We offer a full-time contract spanning a period of four years. The
> appointee is expected to take office as soon as possible in fall 2017.
> The monthly salary starts at € 2.222 gross per month in the first
> year, leading up to € 2.840 gross per month in the last year.
> The terms of employment are in accordance with the Dutch Collective
> Labor Agreement for Universities
> <http://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/cao-universiteiten.html> (CAO).
>
> Application procedure
> You should submit your application via
> https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1261362
> <https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1261362>
> before October 1, 2017 h. 23:59 (CET).
> Applications should include:
> · a motivation letter describing why you would be a good fit
> for this interdisciplinary project, and why you wish to embark on a
> PhD trajectory;
> · curriculum vitae, including university qualifications and
> grades;
> · an article or other recent research output clearly showing
> your expertise in data management;
> · email and telephone contact information for two referees
> (for PhD position, please notify them in advance that they might be
> contacted).
>
> Employer
> Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) at the University of
> Twente is one of the historically leading European departments in
> Science and Technology Studies (STS). The Faculty of Behavioural,
> Management and Social sciences (BMS) fosters high quality
> trans-disciplinary knowledge in STS, philosophy and history of science
> and technology, among other disciplines. The University of Twente
> stands for science and technology under the ‘High tech, Human
> touch’ motto; research and education that address grand societal
> challenges from a high-level scholarly perspective.
>
> For more information, see
> https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1261362
> <https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancies/!/vacature/1261362>
Dr. habil. Nils Zurawski
Universität Hamburg
Inst. für kriminologische Sozialforschung
Allende-Platz 1
20146 Hamburg
Germany
tel. +49 (0) 40 42838 2199 (AB)
fax. +49 (0) 40 42838 2328
http://www.surveillance-studies.org
Neue Bücher:
*Achtung Sicherheitskontrollen! Flughäfen, Kultur, Un/Sicherheiten.
Gerrit Herlyn, Nils Zurawski (Hg.). LIT, 2016.
*Raum-Kontrolle-Weltbild.Raumvorstellungen als Grundlage
gesellschaftlicher Ordnung und ihrer Überwachung. 2014 Budrich
UniPress.
*Anthropology of Security, Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing,
Counter-terrorism and Border Control (eds. M. Maguire, C. Frois,
N.Zurawski) Pluto Press 2014
****************************************************
This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv
for research and teaching in surveillance studies.
To unsubscribe, please send the following message to
<[log in to unmask]>:
UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE
For further help, please visit:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help
****************************************************
|
