[ecrea] PhD scholarship "Sense-making strategies and the user-driven innovations in Virtual Worlds?

> The research project ?Sense-making strategies 
> and the user-driven innovations in Virtual 
> Worlds? (2008-2011) ­ funded by the Danish 
> Strategic Research Council, KINO ­ is offering 
> one full, 3-year Ph.D. scholarship. The start 
> date is 1 November 2008. The Ph.D. scholarship 
> will be located in the Research Group, 
> Communication Forms and Knowledge Production, 
> Department of Communication, Business and 
> Information Technologies (CBIT), Roskilde University, Denmark.
>
> The overall aim of the research project is to 
> gain theoretically- and empirically-based 
> insight into avatar-based virtual worlds as 
> sites for user-driven innovation. The project 
> works with an understanding of innovation as 
> socially and culturally specific processes of 
> meaning-making in which learning takes place and 
> knowledge is constructed, negotiated and shared. 
> One key focus point is the role of conceptions 
> of space, body and person in shaping the design 
> and use of, and changes in, avatar-based virtual 
> worlds. Another key focus point is how we can 
> re-work existing theories and methods - 
> including approaches developed to study other 
> forms of computer-mediated interaction - in 
> order to take account of the specific characteristics of virtual worlds.
>
> The project works within and across three topic 
> areas in relation to innovation in virtual 
> worlds: 1) market dynamics and management, 2) 
> social and cultural innovation and 3) knowledge 
> construction. We seek applications that propose 
> an empirically-oriented Ph.D. project either 
> within one of these topic areas or across two or 
> all of the topic areas. More information about 
> the research project - including a detailed 
> project description - can be found at the 
> project blog: http://worlds.ruc.dk (Contact).
>
> The application should include:
>
> 1) A project description outlining the research 
> design, consisting of research question(s) and 
> aim(s), contribution to the research field, 
> theories and methods, and a research timetable (5 pages excluding references).
>
> 2) CV listing relevant educational and 
> professional qualifications and publications.
>
> 3) Maximum 5 publications (including masters? dissertation).
>
> The application form can be downloaded at: 
> http://www.ruc.dk/cbit/Forskeruddannelse/blanketter/
>
> The Ph.D. scholarship entails that the student, 
> over the 3-year period of study, gain experience 
> of teaching, or another type of communication of 
> knowledge, that is related as much as possible 
> to the Ph.D. project in progress. The extent of 
> teaching/knowledge communication is based on the 
> ?Cirkulære om overenskomst for akademikere i staten? of 22 December 2005.
>
> Salary and other conditions of employment are 
> based on agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC.
>
> Those who have obtained Masters? degrees 
> (including Danish ?Candidate? degree) or expect 
> to gain a Masters? degree in the near future can 
> apply for the Ph.D. scholarship.
>
> Roskilde University encourages applications from 
> all those who are interested regardless of age, sex, religion or ethnicity.
>
> To obtain further details about the 
> scholarships, you are welcome to contact 
> Research manager, Associate Professor Sisse 
> Siggaard Jensen, Roskilde University, telephone 
> 4674 3771 or email: (sisse /at/ ruc.dk).
>
> In 2009 one Ph.D. scholarship located in CBIT, 
> Roskilde University and one Post.Doc scholarship 
> located in LPF, Copenhagen Business School will 
> be offered and advertised in Spring 2009.
>
> The deadline for applications is 26 September 
> 2008, 12 Noon. 5 copies of the application 
> (including 5 copies of each attached 
> publication) should be labelled ?Ph.D./virtual worlds? and sent to:
>
> Roskilde University
> Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies
> Ph.D. administration: Helle Falk Jacobsen
> Postbox 260, Building. 42.3.
> 4000 Roskilde
> Denmark

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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