Deadline: 12 April 2013
-National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis
The project will explore the intersections of smart urbanism, software, ubiquitous computing and big data from a software studies/critical geography perspective, comparing Dublin and Boston and other locales. It will examine how software, in its various manifestations, is essential to the functioning of cities -- how it is deeply and pervasively embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and in the management and governance of urban societies; how it augments and facilitates our understanding and planning of cities, manage urban services and utilities, and live urban lives. The project will undertake a sustained programme of research on how software makes a difference, its nature and diverse forms, and contemporary urbanism, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of the two core inter-related aspects of the emerging programmable city: (a) translation: how cities are translated into code, and (b) transduction: how code reshapes city life.
-National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis
The project will explore the intersections of smart urbanism, software, ubiquitous computing and big data from a software studies/critical geography perspective, comparing Dublin and Boston and other locales. It will examine how software, in its various manifestations, is essential to the functioning of cities -- how it is deeply and pervasively embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and in the management and governance of urban societies; how it augments and facilitates our understanding and planning of cities, manage urban services and utilities, and live urban lives. The project will undertake a sustained programme of research on how software makes a difference, its nature and diverse forms, and contemporary urbanism, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of the two core inter-related aspects of the emerging programmable city: (a) translation: how cities are translated into code, and (b) transduction: how code reshapes city life.
Applicants
Applications are invited from researchers with an interest in urban studies, smart cities, software studies, big data, and ubiquitous computing from a social sciences perspective to work in an interdisciplinary team. Applicants will:
- Have a Masters degree in a relevant discipline;
- have a keen interest in theory building;
- have a good, broad range of qualitative data creation and analysis skills;
- have an aptitude to work well in an interdisciplinary team;
- be prepared to undertake overseas fieldwork;
- have a commitment to publishing and presenting their work;
- have a willingness to communicate through new social media;
- be prepared to archive their data for future reuse by others;
- be prepared to help organise and attend workshops and conferences.
Desirable additional skills include: quantitative analysis and mapping, programming
Stipend
Doctoral Students: €16,000 p.a, plus fees.
The stipend is projected to increment by 8% per annum
Further details available here <http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/student.pdf>
Queries about the posts should be directed to Rob Kitchin (rob.kitchin@nuim.ie).
Queries about the posts should be directed to Rob Kitchin (rob.kitchin@nuim.ie).
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