MA Innovation Studies @ East London UK

MA Innovation Studies at University of East London, UK

FEE WAIVER BURSARIES (1 year)

The School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies (SSMCS) at the University of East London is offering a number of MA/MSc fee waivers at EU fee levels to all UK/EU and overseas applicants for September 2008 entry (full-time only). The bursary is offered in two instalments with the second instalment dependent on the student having successfully completed the Semester A modules. One-year fee waivers for full-time MPhil/PhD study are also being offered.

The School received a 5 rating (‘international excellence’) in the most recent (1996 and 2001) Research Assessment Exercises. It now includes over 140 active researchers and a thriving postgraduate community.

The 5th International Conference on Innovation and Management / Maastricht / December 10-11, 2008

Full time PhD studentships NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre

  Three new PhD studentships with Kings College London & King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a graduate in social sciences wishing to pursue a higher degree?

Would you like the opportunity to gain a PhD in the important areas of patient safety and service quality, while funded for full-time study via a substantial tax- exempt studentship?

The NIHR King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre is seeking to fund three new PhD students, one through an ESRC CASE award and two through new PSSQ Centre studentships. The studentships are exciting opportunities for social scientists with an interest in applied health research to carry out a PhD within the new National Patient Safety and Quality Research Centre, funded by the National Institute for Health Research. The Centre is a partnership between King’s College London and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Virtual Policy '08, 22 - 23 July, BERR, London

Virtual Policy ‘08: A conference on innovation and governance in virtual worlds.
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Virtual Policy 08 is set to be a land mark event focusing on global virtual worlds sited in a European legal and regulatory context. The key policy themes for this year’s event are:

• Intellectual property rights
• Financial transaction
• Child online & education
• Governance frameworks & Innovation

The event is targeted at industry repetitives, legal scholars, policy makers and regulators from around Europe and the rest of the world and is a unique opportunity to interact directly with key stakeholders.

Virtual Policy is organised by the Virtual Policy Network (tVPN: www.virtualpolicy.net ) in conjunction with The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and The UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) with New York Law School providing program support.

Workshop Announcement: The Health and Welfare of the Manufactured Animal

Workshop Announcement: The Health and Welfare of the Manufactured Animal Workshop Announcement: The Health and Welfare of the Manufactured Animal

The Centre for the History of Science Technology and Medicine and Wellcome
Unit at the University of Manchester, conjunction with the Veterinary
History Society, will host a one-day workshop on Friday 19th September 2008
at the University of Manchester(UK) titled The Health and Welfare of the
Manufactured Animal.

The workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in medical and
veterinary histories of the animal.

BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2009

  The BSHS postgraduate conference call for papers is now available, with details to be put up on the BSHS website very soon. It is as follows:

The 2009 postgraduate conference of the BSHS (British Society for the History of Science) will be hosted in Manchester by CHSTM, the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. This conference is an excellent opportunity for postgraduate researchers to present their work and, in fine BSHS postgraduate tradition, to continue discussion over a sociable drink.

research assistant position in Manchester

Research Assistant in Architectural Studies Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC)School of Environment and Development
Closing date: 16/07/2008Reference: HUM/80680

2 PHD PAID POSITIONS: MUSEALISATION OF EUROPE/EU

PROFESSOR WOLFRAM KAISER / DR STEFAN KRANKENHAGEN 2 PAID PHD POSITIONS RESEARCH PROJECT MUSEALISATION OF EUROPE/EU TRONDHEIM/PORTSMOUTH/BERLIN APPLICATION DEADLINE 25 JULY 2008 UNIVERSITIES OF TRONDHEIM/PORTSMOUTH/BERLIN

2 PhD POSITIONS WITHIN EUROPEAN CULTURAL STUDIES / CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AT THE NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TRONDHEIM

The Department of Foreign Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim has available 2 PhD positions connected to the research project Exhibiting Europe. The Construction of European Integration and Identity in the Musée de l?Europe funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). This project seeks to understand how ?Europe? and the European Union are represented and constructed in European-level exhibitions, the planned Musée de L?Europe and in selected national (cultural and history) museums throughout Europe. The positions are for 3 years. The starting date is 1 October 2008.

2 PHD PAID POSITIONS: MUSEALISATION OF EUROPE/EU

PhD position Berlin

[Fwd: free PhD position for Adoption/ART researcher in Berlin]

24.06.2008 Stellenausschreibung:

1 PhD POSITION in EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / SOCIAL or CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE DEPARTMENT FOR EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / THE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH UNIT 640, PROJECT No. C4, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN

Deadline: 17 JULY 2008

The Department of European Ethnology and the Collaborative Research Unit 640, “Changing Representations of Social Order: Intertemporal and Intercultural Comparisons” at Humboldt-University Berlin offer a PhD position within the research project “Kinship as Representation of Social Order and Practice: Knowledge, Performativity and Legal-Ethical Regulation” (Project C4, Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht) This project seeks to understand how notions and practices of kinship / affinity / togetherness are changing in relation to the appropriation of assisting reproductive technologies and adoption in Berlin and Istanbul/Izmir, with a particular focus on the emergent transnational scapes of reproductive medicine. The position is for 4 years, open as soon as possible, ending June 30th, 2012.

The PhD position will contribute to the Turkish and transnational part of the project directed by Prof. Stefan Beck and Dr. Michi Knecht. The focus will be on women, couples and kinship networks, who are using – or have used – reproductive technologies or adoption in order to start, to enlarge or complete families. Important sites of fieldwork in Istanbul, Izmir and Berlin will be self-help groups and other concerned groups within the reproductive health sector, infertility clinics, adoption agencies, ethic committees and governmental staff and experts engaged in redefining kinship and kinship law. Most importantly, interviews and participant observation will take place within the everyday life of families who are involved in our long term study.

Applicants are expected to develop, define and carry through their own PhD research project within the research field of our project (assisting reproductive technologies in Turkey and the emergent transnational scapes of reproductive medicine, kinship and citizenship, concerned groups / self help groups in the field of infertility treatment, adoption, bioethics and regulation in the field of reproductive technologies in Turkey) Applicants for this PhD position should have a background in social / cultural anthropology, european ethnology or STS. Place of work will be the Humboldt University Berlin, with long intermittent periods of fieldwork in Istanbul/Izmir. For further information on the research project see

http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__en-US/3868/default.aspx

Applicants must have obtained a Master’s degree with excellent results or complete a Master’s course before starting at HU. They should have a very good written and oral Turkish and English and a good knowledge of German.

Further requirements:

·        knowledge in one or more of the following fields: new anthropology of kinship, anthropology of knowledge, ethnographies of assisting reproductive technologies, Anthropology of Turkey and the Mediterranean, social studies of science and technology, transnationalisation, methodologies of complex comparisons.

·        Ethnographic fieldwork experience

·        Ability to work in a team, excellent organisation and communication skills

Applicants are kindly asked to send a letter of application with a concise statement of their interest, a cv and up to three examples of their academic writing (including unpublished thesis material), and official transcripts or certified copies of University certificates.

The successful applicant must participate in and complete the PhD programme of the collaborative research unit 640 at Humboldt University Berlin.

The position is payed according to BAT IIa-O, 50 % The PhD students will also receive an additional stipend for time abroad and funding for travel and accommodation for the time spent in fieldwork.

Applications should be sent by post with the reference Nr. DR06408 to

Prof. Dr. Stefan Beck / Dr. Michi Knecht, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 41, D – 10117 Berlin, Germany. Or per mail

Stefan.beck@rz.hu-berlin.de;

michi.knecht@rz.hu-berlin.de.

Deadline is July 17th 2008.

For further information potential applicants are encouraged to contact their prospective part-project leader and main supervisor Prof. Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht informally, by email in the first instance.