[csaa-forum] PhD Candidate at RMIT: Automating the Smart Home

Fri Mar 27 10:53:04 ACST 2015

FYI, great scholarship opportunity!
Cheers
Tania

PhD Candidate sought for unique scholarship opportunity

See: https://automatedsmarthome.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/hello-world/
<https://automatedsmarthome.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/hello-world/>

An outstanding PhD candidate is sought to join an Australian Research
Council social science research project on 'automating the smart home'
based at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.  The successful candidate
will work alongside Dr Yolande Strengers in the Beyond Behaviour Change
Research Program, based in the Centre for Urban Research and the School of
Global Urban and Social Studies.

The project aims to understand how home automation technologies are being
incorporated into household practices, what expectations they are
promoting, sustaining or transforming, and how these will likely support or
undermine electricity demand reduction ambitions. The findings will inform
theories of social practices, materiality and socio-technical change, and
provide internationally-significant insights to energy services
stakeholders.

Prospective candidates are invited to address or adapt one or more of the
following research questions in their proposal:

   - How do different home automation/ smart home companies imagine the
   future and how are they shaping ways of life in intended and unintended
   ways?
   - How are new smart home applications (on smart phones/ devices)
   changing household practices and expectations of comfort, cleanliness,
   security, entertainment and/or ambience?
   - (How) are smart home technologies gendered, and what does this mean
   for the visions and practices that emerge through their development?
   - How can we theorise home automation in everyday life?

Applicants can focus on the smart home as a broad category, or on specific
smart home appliances/ devices, such as automated vacuum cleaners,
air-conditioners, smart home 'control centres' or lighting systems.

There is scope for applicants to develop a project that aligns closely with
their interests.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss their application with
Yolande (yolande.strengers at rmit.edu.au)  prior to submission through the
RMIT application process.

Applicants must hold an undergraduate degree with First Class Honours or
equivalent in Sociology, Geography or a related humanities/ social science
discipline.

For more information on how to apply and the conditions of the scholarships
see:
Local students: URL: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/rps
International students: URL: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/scholarships/rpis

Applications close 1 May 2015.

Dr Yolande Strengers
Senior Research Fellow/ DECRA Fellow
Co-Leader Beyond Behaviour Change Research Program

 <http://www.rmit.edu.au/research/urban>
School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
RMIT University
City Campus - Building 15, Level 1, Room 8
GPO Box 2476, Melbourne  VIC 3001, Australia

Available Monday-Wednesday only

p     +61 3 9925 1916
e     yolande.strengers at rmit.edu.au
w    www.rmit.edu.au/research/urban/beyondbehaviour

  <https://www.facebook.com/RMITCUR?ref=tn_tnmn>
<https://twitter.com/YolandeStreng>
<https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zLdlAoadgeFs.k6pdY9KuSo2E>
<http://au.linkedin.com/pub/yolande-strengers/b/388/628>

*NEW BOOK*
Social practices, intervention and sustainability
<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415739634/>

*SUBMISSION*
Submission to the Australian Government's Energy White Paper - Green Paper
<http://familyenergystudy.net/uploads/3/4/4/0/3440566/greenpaperpolicysubmission_rmit.pdf>

*LATEST PAPER*
Curious energy consumers
<http://joc.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/25/1469540514536194.abstract>

-- 
Associate Professor Tania Lewis
School of Media & Communication
RMIT University, Australia
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/tania-lewis

*Publications*
https://rmit.academia.edu/TaniaLewis

*Research Projects*
www.ethicalconsumption.org/
www.telemodernities.org/
http://www.rmit.edu.au/thinkgreen/supp

*Research Groups*
Digital Ethnography Research Centre: www.digital-ethnography.net/
Beyond Behaviour Change: www.rmit.edu.au/research/urban/beyondbehaviour
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