UCLA Postdoctoral position

UCLA Postdoctoral Position

http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf

One-year appointment beginning August 2012; possible renewal for up to two more years. Review of applications begins May 15; submission deadline is May 30, 2012.

We seek a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year research project, entitled The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and Practice in Data-Driven Science:  A Knowledge Infrastructures Perspective http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html We are conducting ethnographic and interview research about digital data practices among scientists about their research design and data collection, data analysis, data management, and data sharing with colleagues and the public. The project sites are four distributed data-driven research projects, two of which are ramping up their activities and two of which are ramping down.

The project is funded by the Sloan Foundation Digital Information Technology Program. 

http://www.sloan.org/program/28

The principal investigator is Christine Borgman, Information Studies, UCLA

http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/       http://works.bepress.com/borgman/

The co-principal investigator is Sharon Traweek, Gender Studies/History, UCLA

http://www.womensstudies.ucla.edu/faculty_traweek.html

http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek/

The postdoctoral researcher will participate actively in the collaboration, including the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. The postdoctoral researcher will gain experience in collaborative research, research project organization, and digital data research practices. The project is based at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and residence nearby is required for the duration of the postdoctoral research appointment. Some travel is required for research and conferences. We prefer applicants with 

* ethnographic and interview research experience, and 

* substantial knowledge of research in the interdisciplinary fields of Science, Technology, and Society studies (STS) and Information Studies.

The starting salary is $50,000 per year, plus benefits http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/postdoc/pdleave.htm. The work is to be done 12 months of the year, excluding university holidays; the postdoctoral researcher is entitled to 24 paid personal days and 12 paid sick days per year.  For further information about postdoctoral appointments at UCLA: http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/postdocs.html UAW Local 5810 is the Union for over 6,000 Postdoctoral Researchers at the University of California. http://uaw5810.org/

Submit statement of interest, qualifications, CV, and list of three references to Sharon Traweek traweek@history.ucla.edu or Christine Borgman borgman@gseis.ucla.edu

http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf

Charles Donald O'Malley Short-term research fellowship at UCLA

2011-2012 Charles Donald O’Malley

Short-term Research Fellowships

For Research in the History of Medicine and

Allied Fields at UCLA

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and History and Special Collections for the Sciences in UCLA Library Special Collections are pleased to announce the availability of the Charles Donald O’Malley 2011-2012 Short-term Research Fellowships to further investigation into the history of medical thought and healing practice and art from the earliest times to the recent past.  Two fellowships will be awarded, each of which carries a grant of up to $1,500 to defray travel and residence costs for research conducted at UCLA special collections libraries between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012.

The award commemorates the work of Charles D. O’Malley, PhD (1907-70), the Vesalian scholar and first full-time chair of the Department of Medical History at UCLA.  O’Malley pioneered the study of the history of medicine at UCLA and facilitated its growth.

Eligibility:  U.S. citizens and permanent residents with a legal right to work in the United States who are engaged in graduate level, post-doctoral, or independent research are invited to apply. The fellowships are available to visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students primarily interested in using History and Special Collections for the Sciences, the Library Special Collections division located in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. Other special collections at UCLA also may be used, including the William Andrews Clark Library, Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, and University Archives.

Application Instructions:  Applications must be received on or before June 15, 2011 and must include:

-          Cover letter

-          Curriculum vitae

-          Outline of research topic and special collections to be used (two pages maximum)          

-          Brief budget for travel, living, and research expenses

-          Dates to be spent in residence

Two letters of recommendation from faculty or other scholars familiar with the research project

Application materials, including letters of recommendation, can be submitted in print format by mail to the address below, or in PDF format by email to rjohnson@library.ucla.edu. Applications in PDF format by email are preferred.

Review Process and Notification:  A committee will evaluate the research proposals, and applicants will be notified of the selection committee’s decision by email by July 1, 2011.  Fellows will be asked to speak briefly about their recent or ongoing research at an informal brownbag session with local scholars during their visit.

Submit applications or direct questions about the fellowships to: 

Charles Donald O’Malley Short-term Research Fellowships
c/o Russell A. Johnson
History and Special Collections for the Sciences

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA                         

12-077 Center for the Health Sciences                                   

Box 951798                                                                                                                                        

Los Angeles, California 90095-1798

Phone:    310.825.6940

Fax:           310.825.0465

Email:       rjohnson@library.ucla.edu

http://www.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/biomedicallibrary

Science and Poetry event at UCLA

The UCLA Law and Philosophy program presents: Ronald Dworkin Professor of Philosophy, Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law New York University Distinguished Scholar in Residence UCLA School of Law "Science and Poetry: Modes of Understanding" Friday, February 18, 2011 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 pm Room 1347 UCLA School of Law Reception following: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm in the Lincoln Alcove RSVP (optional) to Rachel Estrada at lawandphilosophy@law.ucla.edu

UCLA Winter 2011 colloquium schedule

UCLA Winter 2011 History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Colloquium Schedule

All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm.

January 10 – NO COLLOQUIUM

January 17 – NO COLLOQUIUM—Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

January 24 –Tanja Paulitz, University of Graz

“The Origin of ‘Technological Man’? Gendered Tales of the Modern Engineer's Prehistory”

January 31 – William Rankin, Yale University

“From Representation to Infrastructure: International Mapping Projects and the Logic of Territory after World War II”

Feb. 7: No colloquium

Feb. 14: Tiago Saraiva will present the talk originally scheduled for the previous week:

" F. J. Turner for Fascists: The Production/circulation of Standardized

Sheep and Frontier Settlement in the Empires of Hitler, Mussolini and

Salazar"

February 21 – NO COLLOQUIUM—President’s Day Holiday

February 28 – Marta Macedo, UCLA Center for Society and Genetics

"Inventing the Cocoa Islands: Science and the Portuguese Colonial Landscape”

March 7 – Norton Wise, UCLA

"Pegasus and the Muses of Art, Science, and Industry."

(pre-circulated paper)

This schedule will also shortly be posted on our website: http://www.history.ucla.edu/academics/fields-of-study/science-1/calendar-of-events

UCLA History of Science, Medicine & Technology Colloquium

UCLA History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Spring Colloquium 2009

presents

Jan Golinski,
University of New Hampshire

**Priestley's Hypocrisy: Making and Unmaking the Enlightenment Man of
Science**

http://www.unh.edu/history/golinski/index.html

4-5:30 Monday 18 May in 5288 Bunche

For full schedule