[Commlist] Vacancy: PhD Platformisation of Education (1.0 FTE)

Vacancy: PhD Platformisation of Education (1.0 FTE)

UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, the Netherlands

HOURS PER WEEK: 38 to 40

FACULTY:  Faculty of Humanities

DEPARTMENT: Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University

APPLICATION DEADLINE:  15 November 2022

Job description

The department of Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University recruits 
a PhD student for a research project on “Platform infrastructures and 
the shaping of public education” which is part of the larger 
Spinoza-funded research program Governing the Digital Society, chaired 
by prof. dr. José van Dijck.

Platformisation of education—the embedding of digital platforms into 
educational practices—unfolds through increasingly complex integrations 
of local European educational technology (‘edtech’) companies and global 
American providers of platform infrastructures like Google (Alphabet), 
Amazon, and Microsoft. This project will critically investigate how 
these integrations are shaping and governing public education and use 
its findings for furthering our understanding of the power of platforms 
and how they should be governed.


In the project, you will 1) map and analyse technological and 
organizational integrations of big and local (ed)tech in The Netherlands 
and/or other European countries); 2) study how big tech cloud 
infrastructures and strategic partnerships shape the functions and 
services that third-party companies provide to educational institutions; 
and 3) contribute methods and/or theories to the field of platform 
studies based on the empirical findings.


In the second and/or third year of the project you are expected to teach 
a few classes at the BA-level at the department of Media & Culture 
studies at a rate of 10 percent of the total workload.

Qualifications

We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student who:

- has an (R)MA degree in (new) media studies, communications, or a 
similar research area;

- has excellent research skills, as demonstrated in the (R)MA thesis or 
any publications assessed as such;

- has an academic interest in and thorough knowledge of platform studies;

- has affinity with the use and development of digital methods 
(experience is recommended but not a prerequisite, can also be acquired 
during the PhD trajectory);

- has an excellent command of English (an additional command of Dutch is 
preferred).

For more information, please see: 
https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-platformisation-of-education-10-fte 
<https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-platformisation-of-education-10-fte> 



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