CFA: SAGE Green Technology

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to SAGE Green Technology, a new electronic reference for academic and public libraries. The title has approximately 150 articles ranging from 900 to 4,000 words. We are completing assignments with a FINAL submission deadline of September 23, 2010.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE eReference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a digital, online product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The Series Editor is Paul Robbins, Ph.D., University of Arizona, and the General Editor for Green Technology is Dustin R. Mulvaney, Ph.D., UC - Berkeley. Both editors will be reviewing each submission to the project.

SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book credits for

CFA: SAGE Green Culture

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to SAGE Green Culture, a new electronic reference for academic and public libraries. The title has approximately 150 articles ranging from 900 to 4,000 words. We are completing assignments with a FINAL submission deadline of September 23, 2010.

This comprehensive project will be published in stages by SAGE eReference and will be marketed to academic and public libraries as a digital, online product available to students via the library’s electronic services. The Series Editor is Paul Robbins, Ph.D., University of Arizona, and the General Editor for Green Culture is Kevin Wehr, Ph.D., California State University - Sacramento. Both editors will be reviewing each submission to the project.

SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from

urgent researcher position avaliable namur belgium context etica and egais european projects

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laboratory for ethical governance of information technology

*engages

Under the direction of Prof. Philippe Goujon
 ( http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/personnes/page_view/01005672/cv.html )


*_A researcher (16 months 100% - M/F)
*
beginning of october 2010 end 28/02/2012 (total 16 month)


Research project *

Research lies within the scope of two European projects. Those projects investigate ethical governance in EU research projects with the goal of providing a framework for improved governance mechanisms that will address potential ethical issues arising from new and emerging technologies. Studying current governance arrangements in actual ICT projects (and in particular in Ambient Intelligence project) will help to produce a better understanding of the efficiency and limits of current ethics governance. This will be applied to the relevant ethical issues identified which will lead to a recommendation of successful governance arrangements that will address ethical issues in emerging ICTs before or as they arise. The recommendations for individual issues will be used to develop general policy recommendations.

Final Call for Abstracts (Deadline Extended, August 29th): Canadian Science Policy Conference 2010

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Canadian Science Policy Centre invites proposals for presentations at the upcoming Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC 2010) in Montreal, QC, from October 20-22, 2010.

Research Associate - University of Lincoln

Research Associate University of Lincoln

Salary: £25,001 Ref: HSS2296B

Based in the School of Social Sciences a full time post is is available on a fixed term basis for a period of 14 months. This is an opportunity for a researcher to work with the Professor of Public Policy and a Research Fellow on a Leverhulme Trust funded project, ‘Parliamentary scrutiny of the UK intelligence and security services’.

Applicants should have a Masters degree in a relevant social science discipline or equivalent. A PhD in a relevant discipline is desirable.

The School of Social Sciences comprises a strong team which teaches four undergraduate subjects - Politics, International Relations, Social Policy and Criminology - as well as a BA (Hons) in Social Science and the BA (Hons) Contemporary Culture and Communications. In addition, the MA programme ‘Globalising Justice: Human Rights, Crime and Social Justice’ represents a core feature of the portfolio. The School incorporates the Policy Studies Research Centre, which acts as a focus for research and consultancy, and is responsible for oversight of a range of PhD/MPhil students. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be involved with the wider activities of the School.

Call for Papers - History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO), Duke University, April 2011

Call for papers
Fifth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO)
http://www.hisreco.org/

29-30 April 2011,
Duke University, North Carolina, USA

The Second World War and its aftermath marked a major stage in the establishment of economics as one of the dominant discourses in contemporary societies. The spread of economic ideas into many areas of social life invites mutually profitable engagements between historians of economics and historians of other social sciences. It also presents great potential for those working on the history of economics to broaden their audience beyond those that they have traditionally addressed.

The past decade has been witness to a surging interest in the history of economics post-WWII. This new scholarship has made good use of newly available source-materials, rehearsed new methodologies for the study of the past and looked across disciplinary boundaries for insights. In its fifth consecutive year, the HISRECO conference offers a venue for review and development of this work. We are inviting submissions of papers that deal with the post-WWII era. Though all proposals will be carefully considered, our preference is for papers that place post-war economics in a broader context, whether this is parallel developments in other social sciences, politics, culture or economic challenges. To this end, we solicit proposals from scholars trained in history, economics, sociology, or any field that may yield insights. Proposals from doctoral students and junior researchers are actively encouraged.

Second Call for Abstracts: Canadian Science Policy Conference 2010 - Deadline August 10th

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Canadian Science Policy Centre invites proposals for presentations at the upcoming Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC 2010) in Montreal, QC, from October 20-22, 2010.

Final reminder: Wellcome Trust Studentship in the Sociology of Health-Related Enhancement, University of Edinburgh

Dear colleagues,   Please see below for details of a three-year Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship on the sociology of health-related enhancement. The successful applicant will be based at the University of Edinburgh (and associated with the researchers at the University of Manchester), and supervised by Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley, myself, and Dr Gill Haddow. The studentships is likely to be of particular interest to MA/MSc students in science and technology studies working on biomedicine. Applications from individuals currently based outside the UK are welcome.   The closing date for applications is this Friday 6th August.   All best wishes,   Martyn

Dr Martyn Pickersgill  |  Research Fellow  |  Public Health Sciences Section  |  Division of Community Health Sciences  |  University of Edinburgh  |  martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk  |  http://edinburgh.academia.edu/MartynPickersgill

 

A sociological study of health-related enhancement technologies

 

Applications are invited for this full-time, three-year PhD studentship commencing 1st October or as soon as possible thereafter. This is offered as part of the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Strategic Award programme ‘The Human Body, its Scope, Limits and Future’ (a collaboration between the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh). The student will be based in the University of Edinburgh Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR; www.crfr.ac.uk), and associated with the Centre for Population Health Sciences (CPHS; www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk/cphs/), as well as having close links with Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester (iSEI; www.isei.manchester.ac.uk). This Wellcome Trust Strategic Award is a five-year programme led by Professor John Harris and colleagues at iSEI and by Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley at CRFR. This multidisciplinary programme follows five strands of innovative research: 1. Human biomaterials; 2. Genethics; 3. Reproduction; 4. Enhancement; 5. Methods in Bioethics.

 

Students are invited to think about possible projects on the sociology of health-related enhancement, and include their ideas for the empirical research in their cover letter.

 

The project will be supervised by Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley (CRFR and CPHS), Dr Martyn Pickersgill (CPHS) and Dr Gill Haddow (Innogen). CRFR has a thriving postgraduate research community and close links with CPHS and the Division of Community Health Sciences (www.chs.med.ed.ac.uk), and the School of Social and Political Science (www.sps.ed.ac.uk).

 

Application Details

Applicants must have achieved a 2:1 or higher in their first degree in sociology or a related social science discipline, and preferably have a relevant MA or MSc. The award provides a maintenance grant (£18685) and full fees.  To apply please submit the following:

• A two-page cover letter outlining your interest in and suitability for this project (including brief project proposal)
• An up-to-date CV
• Two academic referees
• Degree certificate/transcript (notarised copies are acceptable).

 

Please send your application to Vivien M Smith, CRFR Business Manager, 23 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LN (Vivien.Smith@ed.ac.uk) by the closing date of Friday 6th August 2010.  Interviews for shortlisted applicants will be held towards the end of August.  Informal inquiries can be made to Sarah Cunningham-Burley (sarah.c.burley@ed.ac.uk) before 30th July 2010, or Martyn Pickersgill (martyn.pickersgill@ed.ac.uk) before 4th August.

 

Call for Papers - Technological change - a stress test for Latin American innovation policies?

Dear all,

Philosophy & Technology (Springer) open for submissions

Philosophy & Technology (Springer)