Position: Researcher (f/m)
Work schedule: full-time
Duration: Third party funded, at the earliest possible date, 3 years
(subject to approval)
Salary level: E 13 TV-L, this translates to a monthly gross salary level
ranging from 3.672,02 € - 5.378,92 €, depending on the qualification and
experience of the candidate. In addition to the salary, the contract
includes health care and social security benefits
Link:
https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/uber-uns/jobs-und-karriere/stellenausschreibungen/researcher-fm-0
Project description:
“Animals as Objects. Zoological Gardens and Natural History Museum
Berlin, 1810 to 2020” is a cooperative research project funded by the
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research between the Museum für
Naturkunde Berlin, the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Berlin Zoo
plc. It investigates the processes by which animals are turned into
objects – living zoo attraction, museum exhibits, diplomatic matters,
teaching tools and data sets. The project investigates four, in many
ways related scientific collections: the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin,
the Zoological Garden, part of which are also the Aquarium and the
Tierpark, as well as the Teaching Collection of the Zoological Institute
of the Humboldt University Berlin. Focus of the research are the
traffics and transformations of animal-objects within and between these
Berlin-based sites of knowledge in their global, political, scientific
and cultural context. Investigations of the animal-objects center on
their material, data and discursive ecologies which form and inform
their care, conservation and sustainability.
The sub-project „The language of data-animals“ connects social research
with cultural and historical studies approaches in order to investigate
the animal-object through and in data practices in Zoo and Museum.
Digitisation as well as novel methods of analysis based on molecular
biology and new imaging technologies are turning animal-objects in
museums into sources of data which feed into different global
information infrastructures such as the Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF), GenBank or the Barcode of Life. These distinct data
practices bring together different orders, standards, technologies,
histories and interest that shift the animal-object’s apprehensions and
attributions. The aim is to comprehend and describe the specific data
ecologies of animal-objects in the Zoo and the Museum and analytically
apply these to new interpretations of animal-objects and their workings
within knowledge culture.
This post offers the possibility of a habilitation at the Institute for
European Ethnology, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Prof. Dr. Tahani
Nadim).
Responsibilities
- Scientific research and collaboration in the subproject “The
language of data-animals“ at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in the
context of the joint research project
- Participation in the graduate programmes, where relevant,
including workshops, international conferences, and summer schools at
the MfN and the Institute for European Ethnology (including CARMAH)
- Regular presentation of interim findings of individual research
project at internal events (Research Colloquium, Lecture Series) and
conferences
- Writing and/or co-writing and publishing peer-reviewed journal
papers as well as an peer-reviewed special issue conceptual and textual
collaboration in the development of an online presentation of the
project’s contents and the edited volume of the joint project
- There is no teaching duty but teaching experience can be arranged
Requirements
- a PhD in one of the following areas of study: sociology of
science, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, European Ethnology
or Science and Technology Studies, human geography
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in planning and executing
empirical studies using qualitative methods
- Research experience and knowledge of questions around the
socio-material and historical contingencies of knowledge, science and
technology
- Demonstrable interest in problematizing data, data practices and
data infrastructures
- Openness and interest for interdisciplinary collaboration
- Organisational competence and ability to self-organise
- Outstanding communication and team skills
In the interest of equal opportunity, applications by qualified female
applicants will be particularly welcome. Applicants with a disability
with equal qualifications will be given priority.
Your Application
Applications with the usual materials (statement of research interests
and experience, curriculum vitae, list of publications, and academic
certificates) should be sent until 29.08.2018 reference to job
advertisement No. 66/2018 to: Museum für Naturkunde, Personalreferat,
Invalidenstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany or to [log in to unmask]
As submitted materials will not be returned, only submit copies with
your application.
The Naturkundemuseum Berlin has set itself the goal of promoting a
work-life balance and has been awarded the certificate berufundfamilie
audit of berufundfamilie gGmbH - an initiative of the Hertie Foundation.
Further information can be found under:
https://www.naturkundemuseum.berlin/de/jobs-und-karriere/arbeiten-am-museum-fuer-naturkunde/audit-berufundfamilie
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Museum of Natural History. Your data will always be kept strictly
confidential. After receiving your application documents, they will be
recorded in our database. Your data will be stored on our server. At the
end of the selection process or at your request, your data will be
deleted immediately. Please note, however, that statutory retention
periods may require that the data be retained (in blocked form) until
the deadline.
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