[Commlist] PhD position​ Automating Welfare

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The Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of 
Sciences (OeAW) is offering aPHD STUDENT POSITION (F*M*D)in Vienna, 20 
hours per week for a duration of 3 years, starting November 2022, with 
the option to get prolonged.

The position is part of the research project “Automating Welfare: 
Algorithmic Infrastructures for Human Flourishing in 
Europe” (2022-2025), which is funded by the CHANSE framework 
"Transformations: Social and cultural dynamics in the digital age" 
<https://chanse.org/call-results/>. The project approaches automated 
welfare from the perspective of the people implicated in the processes 
of automated decision-making (ADM)—the infrastructural engineers and 
designers of ADM systems, the caseworkers, and the citizens whose data 
feed the systems and who are targeted in processes of enhancing welfare 
through automation. It addresses digital transformations of work by 
focusing on development, data work, and human-machine collaboration in 
ADM processes, as well as the role of technological and social dynamics 
in enhancing or hindering advances in automating welfare for the benefit 
of the people.
Requirements:
* Completed academic university degree (Master) in science and 
technology studies, sociology, political science, gender studies, public 
management, media and communication studies, or similar fields.
* Proficiency in Portuguese and English

Please find the full job advert - Job ID: ITA124DOC222- 
at<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs>https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/ITA/ITA124DOC222x.pdf 
<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/ITA/ITA124DOC222x.pdf><https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/ITA/ITA124DOC222x.pdf> 
<https://www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs>

Deadline October 10, 2022

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