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2 year POSTDOC job with the Hub!!

On January 9, 2022

In Call for applications, JOBS, Linköping University

NOTE: We recieved a staggering number of applications for this postdoc job (many of the applicants are simply STELLAR), and then some sorrows in the family, so the process is a bit delayed, dears. Interviews are being scheduled, and the result – our brand new postdoc fellow – will come soon after that.

Astrida Neimanis, Marietta Radomska, Olga Cielemecka, Janna Holmstedt, Lina Rahm, Adam Wickberg – —now, ARE YOU the NEXT POSTDOC with The Posthumanities Hub? Welcome to apply for this research position with Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, Gender Studies and The Posthumanities Hub: Gender, Nature, Culture!

Postdoc in Gender Studies with a focus on feminist environmental- and posthumanities

Linköping University, Sweden. Ref TEMA-2021-00231

Skilled and committed employees are a crucial factor in the success of Linköping University. And we need more of them. Our core expertise comes from teachers and researchers, but a successful university requires experienced and motivated employees in many fields. Everyone is important. We need to recruit many new employees thanks to, among all, an expansion in our research activity. We need you here. We look forward to receiving your application!

The Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA) was the first in Sweden to offer an academic setting for thematically organised, interdisciplinary, socially relevant research. We combine strong research with undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and courses, often in collaboration with actors outside the university. Read more at https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/tema

We are now looking to appoint a postdoc in Gender Studies (at TEMA, LiU) with a focus on feminist environmental- and posthumanities.

Work assignments
A Postdoc will essentially carry out research. The position may also involve teaching and research coordination, but during no more than a fifth of working time (20%).

The position is part of the area Gender, Nature, Culture at the unit of Gender Studies, as well as the international research platform The Posthumanities Hub, led by Professor Cecilia Åsberg. This area addresses global, local and transnational environmental challenges, and takes as its point of departure a more-than-human understanding of nature and culture, body and technology, health and extinction, as well as temporality and materiality. This kind of feminist environmental- and posthumanities extends from research within traditional disciplines such as literature, cultural studies, history and philosophy, in order to study questions about human, nature, culture and environment in new ways, and to fundamentally challenge the boundaries between nature/culture, human/non-human, man/woman and human/animal.

The position includes, in addition to research within the field, the research administrative task of coordinating the outgoing collaborations that are organized within The Posthumanities Hub.

We welcome applicants with an educational background in for example gender studies, posthumanities, environmental humanities or philosophy, and, really, all of the natural sciences, social sciences and the arts! The holder of the position shall demonstrate scientific skills within the area of feminist environmental and/or posthumanities, as well as in carrying out transdisciplinary research across arts and sciences. Administrative skills and experience of organizing national and international collaboration between researchers, and with other societal actors are especially meriting. A good command of English, both in writing and speaking, is a requirement for the position. A good command of Swedish, in writing and speaking, is meriting for the position.

Documented skills in one or more of the following areas is a requirement of the position:

Gender Studies
Posthumanities
Environmental Humanities
Transdisciplinary Environmental Research
Philosophy
Feminist Technoscience

The position includes your own research and teaching within the area of the position in collaboration with colleagues at the unit, as well as dissemination of research results. The holder of the position is expected to be a good collaborator, and a creative and constructive co-worker in a transdisciplinary research environment. Participation in the development of THE POSTHUMANITIES HUB and the area Gender, Nature, Culture, at the unit of Gender Studies (“Tema Genus”) is included in the tasks, as well as participating in the unit’s teaching, both at basic and advanced levels.

The workplace
Tema Genus is a creative and dynamic unit with an international profile in interdisciplinary and thematic gender research and education. Gender Studies at tema Genus spans a wide range of fields, for instance: feminist, queer, trans, postcolonial, race, posthuman, environmental, dis/ability, body, science and cultural studies. Tema Genus also directs collaborative international research centers such as the excellence center GEXcel international Collegium and the postgraduate research training consortium InterGender, and hosts a pioneering PhD programme, and an international Master’s programme in Gender Studies – Intersectionality and Change (with single subject courses at MA- as well as BA-level).

Qualifications
To be qualified to take employment as postdoc, you must have been awarded a doctoral degree or have a foreign degree that is deemed to be equivalent to a doctoral degree. This degree must have been awarded at the latest by the point at which LiU makes its decision to employ you.

It is considered advantageous if your doctoral degree is no older than three years at application deadline for this job. If there are special reasons for having an older doctoral degree – such as taking statutory leave – then these may be taken into consideration.

About this job
This post is a temporary contract of two years with the possibility of extension up to a total maximum of three years. The position as a postdoc is full-time.

Starting date
April 1th 2022.

Salary
Salaries at the university are set individually. State your desired salary in the application.

More information about employee benefits is available here.

Trade union representatives
Information about trade union contacts can be found here.

Application procedure
Apply for this position by clicking on the button labelled “Apply” below. Your application must reach Linköping University before January 31th 2022. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

In case of discrepancy between the Swedish original and the English translation of the job announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.

Equal Opportunities

Linköping University will continue to develop as an attractive and creative place of work, characterized by equal terms and actively works for equality and diversity.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Linköping university has framework agreements and wishes to decline direct contacts from staffing- and recruitment companies as well as from vendors of job advertisements.

Contact persons

Alma Persson, Head of division

+46 13 28 66 68 and email: alma.persson@liu.se

Cecilia Åsberg, Professor, Dr

Email me for more information on the job content!

cecilia.asberg@liu.se

Carin Ennergård, HR-partner

+46 13 28 21 14

carin.ennergard@liu.se

URL to the FORMAL JOB LISTING page: https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies?rmpage=job&rmjob=17963&rmlang=UK

JOB: Postdoctoral Fellowship “The Sociability of Sleep: Careful Design for Collective Conditions” Université de Montréal and McGill University, Montreal, Canada

By Machinic Assemblage

On May 31, 2021

In JOBS

An exciting position at Université de Montréal and McGill University:

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow for a 10-month position to work on the new interdisciplinary research-creation project: The Sociability of Sleep. The candidate will work directly with Professors Aleksandra Kaminska (Director of the Bricolab, Université de Montréal, Communications) and Alanna Thain (Director of the Moving Image Research Lab, McGill
University, English) and have the opportunity to work with project collaborators. These include researchers and practitioners from communication and media studies, media arts, cinema and
performance, psychiatry, psychology, and clinical medicine across Montreal’s universities.
The Sociability of Sleep is funded through a special initiative to support interdisciplinary, experimental, and intensive projects. We explore exceptional and everyday experiences of sleep and its problems to generate new knowledge and empathies for sleep conditions, defined
as a disordered and debilitating relation between sleep and wakefulness (including, but not limited to somnambulism, insomnia, narcolepsy, parasomnias, dreams and nightmares, sleep apnea, chronodiversity, etc.). Through collaboration between artists, scientists, and media
studies scholars, we aim to generate novel sleep situations that make perceptible, and thus actionable, our key intuition: that sleep is much more social than it might seem. In sleep, we become radically vulnerable in a way that requires social forms of care: individuals are experts of their somatic experience, and yet access to the sleeping self relies on the perception of
human and technological others. How might exploring a sleeper subjectivity—the quotidian ways we navigate time, space, ourselves, and others—help us rethink and reanimate the sociability of sleep itself?
We engage these questions by working on 1) developing interdisciplinary approaches to sleep research taking advantage of the tools, methods, and insights of arts, humanities and social sciences; 2) thinking critically and historically about technologies of sleep, including biometrics and sleep tracking apps; and 3) identifying, analysing, and producing artistic interventions into sleep in design, media, and performance, to see how they might enrich normative treatment of sleep conditions. Our approach is rooted in art-science experimentation, collaboration, prototyping, and various forms of “critical making” that integrate and engage with qualitative or quantitative research data. Over the two years of the project, we have planned a series of experimental events, including Sleep Salons, maker labs and prototyping workshops, artist residencies, pedagogical videos, a summer school, and a final exhibition. We are looking for a critical and engaged researcher with an established interest and expertise
in sleep. We are open to a variety of (inter)disciplinary backgrounds, including: media studies, communications, cinema studies, performance studies, science and technology studies, media arts, visual and sound arts, disability studies, design, urban planning, architecture, Indigenous
studies, gender, feminist and sexuality studies, critical race studies, visual and material culture, information science, history of science, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, research-creation, curation, critical making, etc.
The fellow’s primary responsibilities will be to facilitate the collaborative activities across the team, while also developing their own research within the project. They will have the opportunity to be implicated in all aspects of the project with specific responsibilities to be determined
according to their particular interests and profile. These may include curation, programming, medical or public outreach, publishing collaborations, workshop design, prototyping, exhibition design, etc. The position is best suited for someone with strong organizational and communication skills, experience working collaboratively, and an enthusiastic approach to interdisciplinary teams and research.
The fellow will have a workspace and access to equipment, mentoring, and support through the project headquarters at the Bricolab and the MIRL, as well as the opportunity to access partner resources and expertise, including the Topological Media Lab (Concordia), the Visualisation Laboratory and Screen (UdeM), Artefact Lab (UdeM), Hexagram, GRAFIM, the Dream &
Nightmare Laboratory within the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine (UdeM, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur), and the Sleep Lab (McGill Health University Centre), among others.

Eligibility: Candidates must have received a PhD within the past 5 years, or have a doctoral defence scheduled prior to Sept. 15, 2021. Regardless of field or discpline, they must have demonstrated expertise in a relevant area of sleep-related research. The fellowship is open to both national and international scholars. Fluency in English is essential; working knowledge of
French is an asset. We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.

Start date and duration: The position is from Sept. 1, 2021 to June 2022, with the possibility of
a renewal for a second 10-month term (July 2023-April 2023).

Salary: The salary is $35,000 CAD for 10 months, plus 17% in benefits. The fellow will also
have access to a research stipend for materials and research dissemination.

TO APPLY
Documents required: 1) a current CV, 2) a cover letter describing your training, relevant
research interests and a brief description of the work you would like to pursue in relation to the
project including, if relevant, any anticipated material needs (max 2 pages), and 3) contact
information for 2 referees.

Please send your application as a single PDF file to both a.kaminska@umontreal.ca and
alanna.thain@mcgill.ca. Zoom interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held on June
17-18.

Deadline: June 15, 2021
https://bricolab.org/2021/05/25/sleep-postdoc/

The Physicist Dr. Ragnar Holm’s Foundation Postdoc position

By Machinic Assemblage

On March 5, 2020

In JOBS

KTH advertises for a Ragnar Holm postdoc position within a KTH research group.

Are you into STS, history of technology, or techno-humanities, electrics and contact-making (and contact unmakings, such as corrosion, fritting or friction) – and would want do work with us at The Posthumanities Hub of the Department of Philosophy and History? If so please contact Cecilia Åsberg urgently, cecilia.asberg[at]abe.kth.se to discuss this possibility.

NB deadline is extended to March 13, 2020.

Postdoc scholarship from Fysikern fil dr Ragnar Holms stiftelse i Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (The Physicist Dr. Ragnar Holm’s Foundation). Registration number VT-2020-0015

Application period March 2-13 2020

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world. Our research and education covers a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy.

Project description

KTH invites applications for a postdoctoral scholarship in honor of the physicist Ragnar Holm (1879-1970), regarded as the scientific founder of electric contacts and their use, and author of the book “Electric Contacts: Theory and Applications”, Hugo Gerbers Förlag 1946.

Qualifications

A successful candidate should have a PhD-degree, be of any nationality, and is expected to join an existing research group at KTH in a relatively broad field, encompassing Engineering Physics and related subjects, or the History of Science and Technology. Preference is given to areas close to Ragnar Holm’s scientific activities or the history thereof, such as the theory of electric contacts, novel applications of electric phenomena in current constrictions as well as friction, wear, fritting, corrosion and tarnish phenomena on electric contacts and related devices, such electromechanical components including MEMS and NEMS, switching contacts, and micro- or nanoelectronic components. Preference is also given to tunneling effects including the more recent physics of single electronics, and carbon contacts including developments on fullerenes and graphene. Finally, preference is given to historical perspectives on relations between industrial and public research as well as engineering and scientific practices.

The duration of the stay is a minimum of one year and a maximum of two years, starting as soon as possible. Postdoctoral studies must be commenced within six months of the date of the decision. The fellowship amounts to 27 500 SEK per month (travel grants included). The scholarship is tax-free. The recipient will also receive the Ragnar Holm plaque in silver. The candidate must obtain an agreement with a senior contact person at KTH expressing that he/she is welcome as postdoc in the research group.

Candidates must have their PhD degree from outside KTH. The period of post-doctoral fellowship at KTH must be started within five years of graduation.

Application

You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad. Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than 2020-03-13.

Application form https://live.barium.se/Link/ExternalForm/12daa7dc-1711-47b1-b468-7533b65535c3

The application must include the following documents:

Curriculum vitae (max 2 pages)
A list of the ten most relevant publications
A description of the research the candidate will take part in at KTH (max 2 pages)
Three letters of recommendations, including one from the contact person at KTH
The candidate should also give the full address, including telephone and e-mail, at which he/she can be reached.About the position
Period: minimum of one year and a maximum of two years
Extent: Full-time
Amount of scholarship: 27 500 SEK per month (travel expenses included)
Location: Stockholm
Start date: According to the agreement

Contact

Professor Mats Göthelid (Applicants within Engineering Physics)
Telefon: +46 8 790 41 54
gothelid[at]kth.se

Professor Nina Wormbs (Applicants within History of Science and Technology)
Telefon: +46 8 790 85 83
nina[at]kth.se