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

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.

**

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


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