[Students-l] Fwd: [SIGMETRICS] two postdoc positions

[M.J. Menou]

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Subject: 	[SIGMETRICS] two postdoc positions
Date: 	Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:48:13 +0200
From: 	Loet Leydesdorff <loet at LEYDESDORFF.NET>
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*Two post doctoral positions for a joint ESRC-ANR project will be
available from ~October 2011 for 24 months, one at SPRU (University of
Sussex, Brighton), and one in Latts (Paris-Est University, Paris-Marne
La Vallée) for the project **/Emergence & institutionalisation of
epistemic communities in science-based technologies/*
<http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-360-25-0076/read>*/./***

This project aims to combine various analytical dimensions to study the
formation of epistemic communities in emergent technologies: knowledge
dynamics, normativities (social values, expectations), and
institutionalisation. As a result, the research involves diverse
methodological approaches, including:

     * Mapping research dynamics using publications, patents and press data
     * Interviews of key actors on field dynamics, values, expectations
     * Survey techniques for exploring wider communities

This work will be performed through six case studies of emergent
technologies.

Competences required:

     * Background in innovation studies or management, STS, or related
       (flexible)
     * Familiarity with quantitative data manipulation and visualisation
       (expected)
     * Training in interviewing (plus)
     * Interest in mixing / articulating quantitative and qualitative
       analyses

Two post doctoral positions :

§one in Brighton (SPRU), one in Paris-Marne La Vallée (LATTS),

§two years with about six months in the partner location

§up to 31 K£/year-32 KEuros/year (before tax) (abour 28KEuros/year for
first postdoc)

Applications should be sent by April 15th by e-mail including:

§Extended CV

§Two recommendation letters

§One article or conference paper

Submission are to be made to Aurelie Delemarle from LATTS
(a.delemarle at esiee.fr <mailto:a.delemarle at esiee.fr>) and Ismael Rafols
from SPRU (i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk <mailto:i.rafols at sussex.ac.uk>),
indicating preference for location (i.e. Brighton or Paris). Candidates
will be asked to hold interviews in early-mid May in Brighton and/or
Paris. Results will be announced by the end of May.

*SPRU*(Science and Technology Policy Research)
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru>is a world-leading department at the
University of Sussex where research and high-level policy advice are
combined with postgraduate teaching in science, technology, and
innovation policy and management. Its highly interdisciplinary faculty
addresses the analysis of the rate and direction of scientific change
and innovation, the promotion and management of innovation, the
regulation of technological risks, the search for effective energy
policies and paths to a more sustainable society. SPRU researchers are
prominent participants in debates concerning biotechnology,
pharmaceuticals, nuclear power, climate change, technology in
development and the roles of public and private research organisations.

*LATTS*(a French acronym meaning “research group on technology,
territories and societies”), which was founded in 1985, is a joint
research group of the French National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS - http://www.cnrs.fr), the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
(ENPC, a top French engineering institute under the auspices of the
French Ministry of Public Works - http://www.enpc.fr/) and the
University of Marne-la-Vallée (http://www.univ-mlv.fr
<http://www.univ-mlv.fr/fr/index.php>). Latts brings together a team of
approximately thirty researchers (in city planning, economics,
ergonomics, geography, management, history, political science and
sociology) mainly originating from these three academic institutions and
thirty doctoral candidates. Latts members carry out research into
enterprises, public administration, local institutions, collective
action, territorial dynamics and the related technical systems. By means
of field research, comparative investigations and conceptual thought
processes, this work in the social sciences pursues multidisciplinary
aims: between disciplines, between theory and empirics and between
scientific controversy and public debate.

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Loet Leydesdorff

Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam.
Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111

loet at leydesdorff.net <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net>;
http://www.leydesdorff.net/
Visiting Professor, ISTIC,
<http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html>Beijing; Honorary Fellow,
SPRU, <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/>University of Sussex

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