[Sigdl-l] UCLA Postdoc Announcement

[Ashley Sands]

UCLA Postdoctoral Position
http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf

One-year appointment beginning August 2012; possible renewal for up to two
more years.
Review of applications begins May 15; submission deadline is May 30, 2012.

We seek a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year research project,
entitled The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and Practice in
Data-Driven Science: A Knowledge Infrastructures Perspective
http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html
We are conducting ethnographic and interview research about digital data
practices among scientists about their research design and data collection,
data analysis, data management, and data sharing with colleagues and the
public. The project sites are four distributed data-driven research
projects, two of which are ramping up their activities and two of which are
ramping down.

The project is funded by the Sloan Foundation Digital Information
Technology Program
http://www.sloan.org/program/28
The principal investigator is Christine Borgman, Information Studies, UCLA
http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/
http://works.bepress.com/borgman/
The co-principal investigator is Sharon Traweek, Gender Studies/History,
UCLA
http://www.womensstudies.ucla.edu/faculty_traweek.html
http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek/

The postdoctoral researcher will participate actively in the collaboration,
including the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews and ethnographic
fieldwork. The postdoctoral researcher will gain experience in
collaborative research, research project organization, and digital data
research practices. The project is based at the University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA) and residence nearby is required for the duration of the
postdoctoral research appointment. Some travel is required for research and
conferences. We prefer applicants with
* ethnographic and interview research experience, and
* substantial knowledge of research in the interdisciplinary fields of
Science, Technology, and Society studies (STS) and Information Studies.

The starting salary is $50,000 per year, plus benefits
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/postdoc/pdleave.htm
The work is to be done 12 months of the year, excluding university
holidays; the postdoctoral researcher is entitled to 24 paid personal days
and 12 paid sick days per year.  For further information about postdoctoral
appointments at UCLA: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/postdocs.html
UAW Local 5810 is the Union for over 6,000 Postdoctoral Researchers at the
University of California. http://uaw5810.org/

Submit statement of interest, qualifications, CV, and list of three
references to Sharon Traweek traweek at history.ucla.edu
or Christine Borgman borgman at gseis.ucla.edu

http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf
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