13 PhD positions in the EU Horizon 2020 Marie-Skłodowska-Curie  
Project: MSCA-ETN-POEM


The European Training Network “Participatory Memory Practices.  
Concepts, strategies, and media infrastructures for envisioning  
socially inclusive potential futures of European Societies through  
culture” (POEM) invites applications for 13 PhD fellowships with  
international focus to be funded by the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie ITN  
Action as part of the H2020 Programme of the European Commission. POEM  
is a consortium of high profile universities, acknowledged memory  
institutions, civil society organizations, and SMEs located in Cyprus,  
Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the UK.



Short programme description

Diverging forces across European societies, most visible in both the  
contemporary nationalist movements and Islamist radicalization, demand  
a socially inclusive public memory. Its implementation calls for new  
strategies, practices, and infrastructures for staging and empowering  
membership and contribution of people from diverse social and cultural  
backgrounds for past and future development in Europe. To reach this  
goal, research needs to develop a comprehensive understanding on  
concepts, practices, and media infrastructures that facilitate the  
partaking of people from various backgrounds in the heritage building  
work of memory institutions (libraries, archives, and museums). The  
Innovative Training Network “Participatory Memory Practices. Concepts,  
strategies, and media infrastructures for envisioning socially  
inclusive potential futures of European Societies through culture”  
(POEM) will provide this comprehensive knowledge by studying in  
practice theoretical approaches on how connectivities are built by 1)  
institutions, 2) people and groups, and 3) media infrastructures for a  
socially inclusive, participatory heritage work and what facilitates  
or hinders collaboration. Therefore, a new generation of professionals  
will be trained through an innovative training programme and  
supervised by peer networks of transdisciplinary knowledge to act as  
change agents, brokers, and problem solvers in this contested field of  
heritage work. The comprehensive transdisciplinary composition of the  
consortium involving universities, memory institutions, civil society  
organisations, and SMEs from public and private sectors will therefore  
provide the POEM fellows with transdisciplinary knowledge on cultural  
and social analysis as well as on transferrable skills with respect to  
the changing socio-technical, organisational, legal, economic, and  
ethical issues to address future challenges for participatory memory  
work.



Keywords

Public memory, cultural heritage, social media, digital media,  
ethnography of infrastructures, empowerment, social entrepreneurship,  
open knowledge, participatory design, digital heritage, digital  
museology, co-creation



Number of fellowships available

13 PhD fellowships



Key dates

15.03.2018:       Deadline for online application for PhD fellowships

18.05.2018:       Recruitment event at the University of Hamburg, Germany*

01.10.2018:       Start date of PhD projects



Host for PhDs

University of Hamburg (Germany), Aarhus University (Denmark), Cyprus  
University of Technology (Cyprus), University of Glasgow (UK), Uppsala  
University (Sweden), Ashoka UK (UK), Museum Europäischer Kulturen in  
Berlin (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer  
Kulturbesitz, Germany).



Career Stage

Early stage researcher, i.e., postgraduate with 0-4 years of academic  
research experience at the date of recruitment



Research Fields

Critical Heritage Studies, Critical Data Studies Cultural  
Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Design Anthropology, Digital Cultures,  
Digital Anthropology, Digital Heritage, Digital Humanities, Digital  
Museology,  European Ethnology, Human Computer Interaction,  
Information Behaviour, Information Studies, Media Anthropology, Media  
Studies, Memory Studies, Museology, Museum Studies, Participatory  
Design, Science and Technology Studies, Social Anthropology, Software  
Studies, Visitor Studies, Visual Anthropology, Visual Sociology.



The ETN-POEM is explicitly committed to the principle of equal  
opportunities. Qualified women are especially encouraged to apply.  
Severely disabled applicants will be preferentially considered in case  
of equivalent qualifications. Please note that individual host  
institutions may have their own additional application requirements.



For further information please refer to the project website:  
http://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/.



* Travel expenses will be covered for applicants from EU countries;  
shortlisted candidates from overseas will be invited to join by  
videoconference.



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MSCA-ETN-POEM

Institute of European Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 (West Wing)

20146 Hamburg, Germany

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W: http://www.poem.uni-hamburg.de/

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