[Commlist] Six PhD short-term fellowships at the Cooperative Research Center "Media of Cooperation" - University of Siegen

the Coperative Research Center 1187 "*Media of Cooperation*" 
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en has advertised six *short-term 
fellowships* from 1 July 2020 to promote the work of early-career 
researchers and visiting PhD students.

A longer-term collaboration with the CRC is envisaged. The deadline for 
applications is 15 May 2020.

You find all details regarding the scholarships below. I would 
appreciate if you could forward this email in your area or directly to 
potential candidates.

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The University of Siegen is an innovative and interdisciplinary 
university with almost 20,000 students, about 1,300 scientists and 700 
employees in technology and administration. With a wide range of 
subjects ranging from humanities and social sciences to economics and 
natural and engineering sciences, it provides an outstanding teaching 
and research environment with numerous interdisciplinary and 
transdisciplinary research projects. The University of Siegen supports a 
wide range of opportunities to combine work and family life. It has 
therefore been certified as a family-friendly university since 2006 and 
offers a dual career service.

At the University of Siegen, as of 1 July 2020 the DFG-funded 
Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1187 „Media of Cooperation“ offers 
*six Short-Term Scholarships *to promote the work of early-carrier 
researchers. The duration of the scholarships is 6 months. A longer-term 
collaboration with the goal of a doctorate within the CRC is envisaged. 
The basic amount of the scholarship is based on the maximum rate of the 
DFG (1.365,- EUR). In addition, an allowance for material expenses and, 
if applicable, a child allowance will be paid. The allocation of the 
fellowships is subject to the release of funds by the DFG.


*CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation“ *
The CRC is an interdisciplinary research network consisting of 15 
projects and more than 60 scientists from the fields of media studies, 
science and technology studies, ethnology, sociol-ogy, linguistics and 
literature studies, computer science and medicine as well as history, 
edu-cation and engineering. It has been funded by the DFG since 2016. 
The CRC investigates the emergence and dissemination of digitally 
networked, data-intensive media and understands these as cooperatively 
accomplished conditions for cooperation. The research of the 
partici-pating subprojects focuses on data practices that are explored 
in the situated interplay of me-dia practices, infrastructures and 
public spheres.

The newly established short-term fellowship program of the CRC provides 
national and inter-national doctoral students the opportunity to further 
develop their research project in the CRC, to get to know participating 
researchers and to exchange ideas with them. The research pro-jects of 
the scholarship holders should be thematically related to the 
subprojects of the CRC, so that their work can be supported by the 
principal investigators and their teams. Scholarship holders are 
assigned to the newly established Integrated Research Training Group 
(MGK) of the CRC and benefit from its structured training program. The 
CRC offers scholarship holders an international environment for 
interdisciplinary media research as well as an extensive pro-gram of 
events and training in ethnographic, digital, sensor-based and 
linguistic methods.

Further information on the CRC’s research agenda and subprojects can be 
found at https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en.
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*Your Profile *
− Relevant, above-average degree in one of the disciplines participating 
in or related to the CRC, preferably in media and cultural studies, 
sociology or in the field of socio- or business
informatics, human-computer interaction or information systems 
(equivalent to a Master’s degree, Magister, Diplom or 
Lehramt/Staatsexamen Sek. II)
− Individual research project in one of the above-mentioned disciplines 
within the subject area of the CRC. Ideally, you can assign the project 
to one of the subareas of the CRC – infrastructures, publics or praxeology
– Interest in methods of media research, the analysis of data practices 
and an affinity for working in an interdisciplinary research environment
– Willingness to participate in the international event program of the 
CRC and the MGK
– Very good written and spoken English language skills
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*Your Tasks *
Expectations of successful candidates:
– Regular participation and involvement in the events and the training 
program of the MGK (colloquia, workshops, summer schools, methodology 
workshops, interdisciplinary groups)
– Presentation of preliminary results of the individual research project 
within the MGK collo-quium

*Equal opportunities and diversity* are promoted and actively practiced 
at the University of Siegen. Applications from women are highly welcome 
and will be given special consideration in accordance with the federal 
state equality law. We also welcome applications from people with 
different personal, social and cultural backgrounds, people with 
disabilities and those of equal status.
For further information contact Dr. Timo Kaerlein (Tel.: +49 271/740-5251)
E-Mail: (timo.kaerlein /at/ uni-siegen.de) <mailto:(timo.kaerlein /at/ uni-siegen.de)>

Please send your application documents (letter of motivation, curriculum 
vitae, copies of cer-tificates, 3-page outline of a project idea plus 
bibliography) by 15 May 2020 to Dr. Timo Kaer-lein, Herrengarten 3, 
57072 Siegen, Germany. Alternatively, you can also send your 
applica-tion in a single PDF file by e-mail (max. 5 MB) to 
(timo.kaerlein /at/ uni-siegen.de) <mailto:(timo.kaerlein /at/ uni-siegen.de)>.  
Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by 
third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating by unencrypted e-mail.

Information about the University of Siegen can be found on our homepage: 
www.uni-siegen.de <http://www.uni-siegen.de>.

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