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<div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Subject: JOBS B: RA (Doc) Position at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, Germany)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The “CDC Research Lab” at Leuphana University Lueneburg is seeking to appoint one research associate at doctoral level (EG 13 TV-L, 75% for three years), starting from 1. September 2013. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The new CDC Research Lab is situated in the larger, transdisciplinary, cross-faculty “Centre for Digital Cultures” (CDC), which – with its more than 90 international researchers – bundles research and
development activities within digital media at Leuphana University. The CDC Research Lab is funded by the “Niedersaechsisches Vorab” program, and will host international fellows as well as younger researchers, who work on a research program consisting of four
thematic fields: (a) questions of the technological conditions of digital cultures, (b) new forms of cooperation, collectivity and organisation, (c) shifts in political participation and affective control, as well as (d) methodological problems and experiments
in the research of digital cultures. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The doctoral project of the applicant should be located within the thematic field (b): Digital cultures confront us with new and complex phenomena of sociality, be it in relation to cooperation, collectivity
or organisation. Doctoral projects could, for example, situate themselves in the border area between media studies or software studies on the one hand and social anthropology, organisation theory, or sociology on the other. Alternative interpretations of the
thematic field (b) are equally welcome.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Your tasks:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Independent work on a doctoral project, which contributes clearly to the thematic field of “re-thinking sociality” (= field b)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Preparation and support of the activities of the CDC Research Lab</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Preparation and discussion of research literature</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Development of own projects and thematic foci</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Conceptual involvement in the organisation of presentations, reading groups and workshops</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* There is no requirement to teach, but own teaching activities are possible</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Requirements:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Completed masters degree or equivalent with a clear relation to of the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Excellent proposed doctoral project fitting the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Familiarity with current methods of the appropriate thematic field</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Preparedness to enrol for the doctoral programme at Leuphana University Lueneburg and presence at the CDC Research Lab in Lueneburg</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">For more information how to apply, see</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<a href="http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuell/files/stellenausschreibung/Doc_Ausschreibung_eng.pdf" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuell/files/stellenausschreibung/Doc_Ausschreibung_eng.pdf</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Subject: JOBS A: Four Postdocs at the Centre for Digital Cultures (Lueneburg, Germany)</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The “CDC Research Lab” at Leuphana University Lüneburg is seeking to appoint four research associates at postdoctoral level (EG 13 TV-L, 100% for three years), starting from 1. October 2013. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The new CDC Research Lab is situated in the larger, transdisciplinary, cross-faculty “Centre for Digital Cultures” (CDC), which – with its more than 90 international researchers – bundles research and
development activities within digital media at Leuphana University. The CDC Research Lab is funded by the “Niedersaechsisches Vorab” program, and will host international fellows as well as younger researchers, who work on a research program consisting of four
thematic fields: (a) questions of the technological conditions of digital cultures, (b) new forms of cooperation, collectivity and organisation, (c) shifts in political participation and affective control, as well as (d) methodological problems and experiments
in the research of digital cultures. </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Applications are therefore explicitly encouraged for one of these four thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Your tasks:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Preparation and support of the activities of the CDC Research Lab</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Development and establishment of your own research projects and problematics; independent publication activities</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Participation in drafting and editing of research funding applications</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Conceptual participation in design and delivery of conferences, summer schools and publication projects</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Assistance with the support fellows and young researchers</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Support of outside communication of CDC Research Lab</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* There is no requirement to teach, but own teaching activities are possible</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Requirements:</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Completed, excellent PhD with a clear relation to one of the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab from a historical, theoretical or systematic perspective.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Excellent proposed research project fitting one of the thematic fields of the CDC Research Lab </span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Familiarity with current methods of the appropriate thematic field</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">* Presence at the CDC Research Lab in Lueneburg</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">For more information how to apply, see</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
<a href="http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuell/files/stellenausschreibung/Postdocs_Ausschreibung_eng.pdf" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aktuell/files/stellenausschreibung/Postdocs_Ausschreibung_eng.pdf</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">
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