Three one-year postdoctoral research jobs at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
The Centre for Gender Research is a research intense unit, consisting of about 20 researchers from different disciplines. We are now recruiting additional post-docs for full-time, one-year positions. Successful applicants have some kind of “double” competence – gender research and science – in one of the following research areas:
1) Gender and physics. The interface between gender research and physics has mostly been restricted to understand “women in science”; conditions, power-relations, mechanisms of exclusion and the like. We encourage applicants to focus on questions about gendered knowledge and materiality.
2)Gender and animal research. Animal research has traditionally, with some very important exceptions, been viewed as “outside” of gender and feminist concerns. Applicants in this area are welcomed to focus on issues concerning the gendering of animals, and the animaling of gender, in biological and other research.
3) Trans-disciplinary feminist didactics. Gender didactics is an undeveloped field, mainly in Sweden but also internationally. At the same time it is pivotal in all gender research to understand how gender is communicated. Hence teaching is the key to transdisciplinary encounters, which is why a national knowledge base in gender didactics is expected to contribute to deepen the planned trans-disciplinary research and theory development. To meet this requirement, we invite a visiting scientist position in feminist didactics who will start the building of such a knowledge base.
The persons we are looking for have different disciplinary backgrounds, and may therefore be researchers in for example pedagogy, history of science, sociology, biology or physics.
Someone around the office told me just now, in exceedingly poor taste mind you, that Steve Irwin’s last words were ‘crikey, that hurt’.
Update: I’ve just heard that this story was leaked to the media before Steve’s wife could be located and notified. That’s crappy if it’s true.
I am so deeply angry and upset about this.
And the fact that Aunty Delmae Barton should feel she had to say “But I was wearing good clothes” makes me want to disappear.
Shame on us.
My name is Jean Burgess and I’m an academic, among other things.
For your enjoyment, here is a standard bio and a picture of my head.
Dr Jean Burgess is a Senior Research Fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI) at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She holds an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship for the ARC Discovery Project New Media and Public Communication (2010-2013) and is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Project Digital Storytelling and Co-Creative Media (2011-2014).
Her current research focuses on methodological innovation in the context of the changing media ecology, and in particular on the development of computational methods for media and communication studies. She has published widely on issues of cultural participation in new media contexts, focusing particularly on user-created content, online social networks, and co-creative media such as digital storytelling.
She is the co-author of the first research monograph on YouTube – YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (Polity Press, 2009), which has subsequently been translated into Polish, Portuguese and Italian. Burgess has developed several applied research partnerships with cultural institutions and community-based organizations, focusing on the uses of co-creative media such as digital storytelling for cultural participation, advocacy and engagement. She has a background in music performance, cultural studies and Internet studies.
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