Job ad: Post doc position in Gender and Science
From an email list I'm member of, in case you're interested and/or need a job
Post doc position in Gender and Science
at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University
Centre for Gender Research is currently engaged upon expanding its
resources for research within the programme of gender excellence,
/Nature/culture Boundaries and Transgressive Encounters. /Uppsala Centre
for Gender Research has quickly developed into a unique place of meeting
for scientists and students with a range of disciplinary backgrounds.
From the beginning concrete and focused efforts have rendered
organisational and scientific boundary transgressions possible. These
interdisciplinary research and teaching efforts has rendered quick
results and produced networks between the cultural and natural sciences
that we now will explore further. The objectives for the five-year
programme is thus to uphold a research environment that boosts empirical
investigations and theoretical reflections on how gender and gendered
knowledge is produced in the borderland between the cultural and the
natural sciences in empirical research, theory development and teaching.
The Centre for Gender Research is a research intense unit, consisting of
more than 30 researchers from different disciplines. We are now
recruiting a post-doc for a full-time, one-year position. The successful
applicant has some kind of interesting competence and proposed project
in the intersection of gender research, science studies and animal
studies. Animals have traditionally, with some very important
exceptions, been viewed as “outside” of gender and feminist concerns.
Applicants in this area are welcomed to focus on issues concerning the
gendering of animals, and the /animaling/ of gender, in biological and
other research.
The person we are looking for may come from, for example, pedagogy,
history of science, sociology, biology or ethology. The anticipated
starting date is 15 August 2008.
Applicants should have a doctorate or equivalent, a strong record of
research achievement at an international level in the study of gender
and science, and the demonstrated capacity to publish in top-rated
journals and to present at international conferences. The successful
candidate is expected to besides working on his or her own project also
contribute imaginatively to the design and delivery of the excellence
programme.
The Centre is striving to achieve a more equal gender balance and male
candidates are particularly invited to apply.
*Further information* can be found on our website www.genna.gender.uu.se
Margaretha Fahlgren, margaretha.fahlgren@gender.uu.se
tora.holmberg@gender.uu.se
representatives are Anders Grundström, SACO-rådet, phone: +46 18 471
5380, Carin Söderhäll, TCO/ST , phone: +46 18 471 1996, and Stefan
Djurström, SEKO, phone: +46 18 471 3315.
*The application* should consist of a short project outline (2-3 pages),
a full CV, and a selection of two publications. Send your application
to: Registrator, UFV-PA 2008/649, Uppsala universitet, Box 256, 751 05
Uppsala, Sweden, e-mail: registrator@uu.se
fax +46 18-471 2000 *no later than **30 April 2008*. An application sent
by fax or e-mail must be followed by a letter containing any original
documents, at the latest a week after application deadline.
Hm, I know I looked at that and remembered that I have never persued the gender angle in my research... (bacteria and viruses?!) but still, it is interesting.
ReplyDeleteTHanks for the notice!