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[Commlist] Pre-announcement fully funded PhD position at Sodertorn University, Sweden

Wed Dec 07 18:12:28 GMT 2022


Pre-announcement for a fully funded PhD position

We are looking to hire a PhD fellow within the project “The Digital Welfare State” <https://www.sh.se/forskning/var-forskning/forskningsdatabas/forskningsprojekt/the-digital-welfare-state>. This project explores investigates the extensive implementation of automated decision-making in the welfare sector across Europe being one of the first to systematically link automation to questions of shrinking trust, decline in civic participation and in extension challenges for democracy. Data-based infrastructures for public administration are shaping not only welfare provision, but also state-citizen relations and open questions of ethics and accountability, human agency in relation to complex socio-technical systems as well as biases and inequalities. The project is premised on three major developments: 1) a major shift towards datafication and digitalisation of large parts of society 2) major changes in the organisation of the welfare state 3) shrinking trust in democracy. It foregrounds the perspective of citizens both in terms of the introduction process and its democratic implications. Combining extensive mapping, surveys, in-depth interviews and expert interviews, the project engages with the practices and experiences as well as the attitudes and implications of automated decision-making in the welfare sector. These areas will be explored in Sweden while linking to the European context. The project provides an in-depth and cutting-edge understanding of the process of automating welfare from a citizen perspective producing highly relevant insights into how automated decision-making can support but also harm democracy.

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*Media and Communication Studies***at Södertörn University is one of Sweden’s leading environments for media research and education. Research and education are focussed on the contemporary digitized media landscape, founded on a historically informed understanding where new communication technologies and their contexts are related to their predecessors.The research environment currently comprises around 20 researchers/teachers including 6 full professors, 6 associate professors (docents), and 9 doctoral students. All doctoral students have an international profile, and the working language of the PhD training programme is English. For more information, please click here <https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/research/our-research/media-and-communication-studies?query=media%20and%20communication%20studies>. For a Swedish version click here <https://www.sh.se/mkv>.

Doctoral studies at the Department of Media and Communication Studies is part of the research area of *Critical Cultural Theory*, which is an interdisciplinary research environment which consists of seven subjects in the humanities. Research focuses on critically motivated studies of cultural artifacts and human practices.For more information, please click here <https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/research/doctoral-level-education/critical-and-cultural-theory?query=critical%20cultural%20theory>. For a Swedish version click here <https://www.sh.se/forskning/forskarutbildning/kritisk-kulturteori?query=kritisk%20kultur%20teori>.

*Description of the doctoral position *The PhD project should be linked to critical research on the digitalisation of welfare in the broadest sense. This may include studies of how citizens experience automation in the welfare sector but also the material and cultural conditions of digitalization, datafication and automation, e.g. technological infrastructures and social practices that are the underlying preconditions. The project should be situated within critical data studies as well as critical studies of digitalisation and related fields. The PhD candidate will be part of an international and interdisciplinary research team.

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The successful applicant will write the thesis as part of the research projectThe Digital Welfare State.


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