[Air-L] One week to deadline! Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Society) Vacancy @ Sheffield

[Helen Kennedy]

A reminder :)

On 14 August 2017 at 08:26, Helen Kennedy <h.kennedy at sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> The University of Sheffield is seeking to appoint a two-year Postdoctoral
> Research Assistant to contribute to the Faculty of Social Science’s
> vibrant, interdisciplinary Digital Society Network (DSN,
>
> https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/social-sciences/digital-
> society-network), to support and enable digital society research.
>
> The successful candidate will work with DSN Director Professor Helen
> Kennedy (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles
> /helen-kennedy) and the DSN steering committee on a broad portfolio of
> research in the field of Digital Society. The role has a large
> developmental element, encompassing assisting with proposal writing and
> identifying funding and grant opportunities across the digital society
> field in the UK and Europe. You will work with the DSN steering committee
> to implement a strategy which is interdisciplinary and international, and
> you will work with Professor Helen Kennedy on large, interdisciplinary bids
> and fellowship applications, providing support as appropriate, specifically
> in the areas of data in society, human-data interaction and data
> visualisation. You will be responsible for undertaking a wide range of
> tasks in the preparation of research applications, including literature
> reviews, liaison with research partners and specific writing tasks. You
> will have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in a relevant subject (e.g.
> Sociology, STS, Media Studies, Digital Media), with specialist academic
> experience in and knowledge of data in society (human-data interaction,
> data visualisation, data ethics, algorithmic accountability).
>
> This full-time, fixed-term post is available immediately for 24 months. Further
> details can be found at:  https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs > current
> vacancies and search 'digital society'.
>
>
>
> *Job Reference Number: *UOS016927
> *Contract Type: *Fixed-term, available immediately for 24 months
> *Working Pattern: *Full-time
> *Faculty: *Social Sciences
>
> *Salary: *Grade 7: £30,175 to £38,183 per annum
> *Closing Date: *7th September 2017.
>
>

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Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society
Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences
Elmfield, Northumberland Road
Sheffield S10 2TU
T: 0114 2226488
E: h.kennedy at sheffield.ac.uk

LATEST ARTICLE: *'*The Feeling of Numbers: emotions in everyday engagements
with data and their visualisation
<http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038516674675?journalCode=soca>',
*Sociology*, 2017.