New positions at the IT-University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites applicants for positions as assistant/associate professors starting in late spring 2011 or early thereafter.
For more information, please consult the announcement here.

The IT University is strengthening research and teaching in areas relating to understanding, designing and managing complex information infrastructures in business, and other organisations. We are interested in IT innovation that addresses contemporary business and organizational challenges in a global world. We appreciate inter- or multidisciplinary perspectives capable of addressing social, technical as well as informational dimensions. Global interaction is an essential theme at the IT University, and the successful candidates are expected to investigate and take part in global interactive activities in research as well as teaching.

The new assistant/associate professors will be part of a team developing and conducting a bachelor programme in Global Business Informatics, and should be prepared to teach some of the following subjects: Enterprise Systems and Information Management, IT Project Management, Organisation Studies and Process Theory, IT-enabled Process Improvement, IT-enabled Supply Chain Management or IT Governance and Quality Management. The programme is taught in English.

Disciplinary or interdisciplinary backgrounds in Information Systems, Informatics and/or Organisational Studies are welcomed.
The successful candidate must document internationally recognized research and have experience with teaching and curriculum development.

The successful candidates must be enthusiastic about:

• conducting research at the highest international level
• developing and conducting excellent graduate and under-graduate teaching.
• actively taking part in developing the IT University and its relations with external partners
• attract external funding for research and be capable of, and prepared to supervise Ph.D. students.

General information:
The IT University is a multi-disciplinary, research-based institution with faculty drawn from computer science, the social sciences and the humanities. We provide graduate education to students in a range of areas and have just launched a bachelor’s program in Global Business Informatics (for more info about our programs visit http://www.itu.dk/sw5211.asp).

The shared emphasis in the Technologies in Practice research group is on the mutual shaping of people, technologies, organizations and culture through practices of design and use. The members are currently involved in research projects focusing on health care information technologies, global interaction, environmental infrastructures, and technologically mediated collaboration.

Enquiries about the position can be directed to Head of Group Randi Markussen (E: rmar@itu.dk P: +45 7218 5160)

Salary
Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC).

Application
The application must be in English and include:

• A motivated application, including a cogent argument for how qualified you are for the position and brief statements of research and teaching plans.
• A full CV, including name, address, phone number, e-mail, previous and present employment and academic background.
• Documentation of academic degrees (copy of degree certificates etc.).
• Max 5 different publications you wish the evaluation committee to consider.
• A numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications should be marked with an asterisk (*).
• Documentation of pedagogical experience and teaching record within one or more of the teaching areas listed for the position.

The applicant will be assessed according to the Appointment Order from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of 25 April 2008. Please note that all application material will be destroyed after the assessment.

Application procedure
You can only apply for this position through our e-recruitment system. Apply for this position by pushing the button “Apply for position” below.

Application deadline: 2 November 2010

Applications/enclosures received at ITU after the application deadline will not be taken into consideration. When you submit an application, it is your responsibility to ensure that it arrives before the deadline.

The IT University wishes to reflect an international environment and regards multiplicity as resources. We encourage everybody irrespective of personal background to apply for the vacant position.

Add comment September 9th, 2010

Cognition in the Laboratory – Cognition in the Wild

On Septemper 16th – 17th MINDLab, Aarhus University hosts the workshop “Cognition in the Laboratory and Cognition in the Wild: Methodologies for the study of human cognition and interaction in the cross section between social science and experimental cognitive science”. For more information click here.

Add comment August 26th, 2010

PhD-grant in Models and simulations in engineering.

The University of Roskilde, Denmark, has a vacant PhD-grant in the area of models and simulations in engineering. The PhD-project is multidisciplinary and combines theories and methods from engineering as well as the humanities. The aim of the PhD-project is to investigate the development of complex models and how they are used in engineering research as well as in selected application areas.
The PhD Grant is part of the project PROCEED which investigates how engineers and educators respond to the environmental, socio-economic, and scientific-technological challenges that face the engineering profession. The project is a collaboration among researchers at the universitites in Aalborg, Århus and Roskilde, and the Danish Technical University.
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Add comment August 20th, 2010

STS-workshops at RUC

During the fall, RUC will host a series of STS-workshops in the seminar room at Department of Philosophy & Philosophy of Science, 3.1.3, 13.00-15.00, followed by a reception. Everybody is welcome to join.

Schedule:

17. september
Emmanuel Didier (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris): ’What is America About? Statistics, the New Deal, and Democracy’.

1. oktober
Matthias Heymann (Aarhus Universitet): ’Constructing evidence and trust: How did climate scientists’ confidence in their models and simulations emerge?’

15. oktober
Kirsten Simonsen (Roskilde Universitet): ’Practice, Spatiality and Embodied Emotions: An Outline of a Geography of Practice’.

29. oktober
Mats Fridlund (Københavns Universitet): ’The Terror and Security of Things: Recovering a Material and Phenomenological History of a Lost Fear’.

12. november
Fernando Flores (Lunds Universitet): ’Broken Technologies: The Humanist as Engineer’.

26. november
Thomas Söderqvist (Københavns Universitet): ’Cultures of Meaning and Cultures of Presence: The Use of Material Objects in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology’.

10. december
Gert Goeminne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Universiteit Gent): ’Does the climate need consensus? Rethinking science as politics’.

Add comment August 16th, 2010

PhD Course (5 ETCS): Framing Screens: Knowledge, Interaction and Practice

The PhD course is hosted by the Technologies in Practice Faculty Group (f.k.a. Design of Organizational IT), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and takes place 27-30 September 2010. The broken link to registration has been fixed.

Lecturers: Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University); Helen Verran (University of Melbourne); Christopher Gad (IT University of Copenhagen)

This PhD course aims to unfold empirically and analytically how computer screens and other displays help ‘project’ or otherwise ‘perform’ knowledge, interaction and practice. Screens are increasingly ubiquitous, for example as part of personal computers, televisions, cameras, surveillance equipment, ticketing equipment, mobile phones and other handheld devices. Simultaneously screens play an increasingly important role in a wide range of human practices relating to work, play, travel, care, learning, planning, monitoring, designing, coordinating, modelling, policing and much else. At the same time screens are curious entities. They may stretch human interactions nearby to globally-distributed locations. They seem to multiply the world around us while simultaneously constructing very specific fields of vision. Thus, screens perform cuts between displayed worlds and human knowledge about the world. Screens also mediate human action in particular ways by actively participating in new visions that define and situate action. With their capacity to organize human attention elsewhere screens may enact viewer displacement, as viewers becomes screened off. Thus boundaries may shift between screens, the knowledge they present, the interactions they facilitate and the practices they engender. For these reasons, screens are objects of interest for contemporary social scientific research into technologically mediated environments, including anthropology, cultural/media studies, design studies, and science and technology studies (STS) . Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions the course aims to frame screens by exploring their implications for knowledge, interaction and practice. This includes but is not limited to analytical topics such as:

Add comment July 30th, 2010