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[Filled position] Hiring Professor - Digital Social Sciences

Sciences Po's médialab is hiring a Professor in Digital Social Sciences

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Sciences Po's médialab is hiring a Professor in Digital Social Sciences (faculty position in the public sector). The candidate's social science discipline may be sociology, science & technology studies (STS) or media studies (cultural and visual studies).

Status

Faculty position in the public sector.

Candidates must have:

  • the title of Professor,
  • or be qualified as a Professor, or an equivalent position in a foreign university at the time of recruitment.

Discipline

Humanities and Social Sciences. Sociology, Demography (CNU, section 19), Epistemology, History of science and technology (CNU, section 72)

Job Profile

Digital Social Sciences

The position is open to a profile with a strong knowledge of digital worlds (history, uses, technologies, culture) and a familiarity with methods of analysis and exploration of digital data (statistics, modeling, visualization). The candidate's social science discipline may be sociology, science & technology studies (STS) or media studies (cultural and visual studies).

Working knowledge in French is required.

Functions

Research

The appointed person will conduct their research program at the médialab. (S)He should have a good knowledge of recent theoretical and methodological developments in the analysis of digital data, and a solid experience in empirical work. (S)He will develop their research program by integrating it into research networks and actively participating in the collective activities of the center: seminars and scientific events, collaborations, applications to French, European and international call for proposals, supervision of doctoral students.

Teaching

The annual teaching service is 128 hours, divided into 3 lectures (CM) of 24 hours each and 56 hours (equivalent CM) of complementary pedagogical tasks (juries, supervision of dissertations, missions, etc.) at all levels of education offered by Sciences Po: undergraduate (in one of the seven campuses of Sciences Po), and graduate.

Recruitment Process

Prequalification

Candidates practicing at a higher education institution outside France and not qualified by the French National Council of Universities (CNU) must obtain the approval of Sciences Po's Scientific Council in order to know if they are eligible for this job. They are asked to report to the selection committee chair before December 17th, 2018.

Application

Candidates must submit their application through the "Galaxie" portal of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, between October 17th, 2018 and February 28th 2019.

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