UCLA Postdoctoral Position<br><a href="http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf" target="_blank">http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf</a><br>

<br>One-year
 appointment beginning August 2012; possible renewal for up to two more 
years.<br>Review of applications begins May 15; submission deadline is May 
30, 2012.<br><br>We seek a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year 
research project, entitled The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and
 Practice in Data-Driven Science: A Knowledge Infrastructures 
Perspective <a href="http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html" target="_blank">http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/index.html</a><br>We
 are conducting ethnographic and interview research about digital data 
practices among scientists about their research design and data 
collection, data analysis, data management, and data sharing with 
colleagues and the public. The project sites are four distributed 
data-driven research projects, two of which are ramping up their 
activities and two of which are ramping down.<br><br>The project is funded by the Sloan Foundation Digital Information Technology Program<br><a href="http://www.sloan.org/program/28" target="_blank">http://www.sloan.org/program/28</a><br>

The principal investigator is Christine Borgman, Information Studies, UCLA<br><a href="http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/" target="_blank">http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/cborgman/</a><br><a href="http://works.bepress.com/borgman/" target="_blank">http://works.bepress.com/borgman/</a><br>

The co-principal investigator is Sharon Traweek, Gender Studies/History, UCLA<br><a href="http://www.womensstudies.ucla.edu/faculty_traweek.html" target="_blank">http://www.womensstudies.ucla.edu/faculty_traweek.html</a><br>

<a href="http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek/" target="_blank">http://www.history.ucla.edu/traweek/</a><br><br>The
 postdoctoral researcher will participate actively in the collaboration,
 including the design, conduct, and analysis of interviews and 
ethnographic fieldwork. The postdoctoral researcher will gain experience
 in collaborative research, research project organization, and digital 
data research practices. The project is based at the University of 
California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and residence nearby is required for 
the duration of the postdoctoral research appointment. Some travel is 
required for research and conferences. We prefer applicants with<br>* ethnographic and interview research experience, and<br>*
 substantial knowledge of research in the interdisciplinary fields of 
Science, Technology, and Society studies (STS) and Information Studies.<br><br>The starting salary is $50,000 per year, plus benefits<br><a href="http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/postdoc/pdleave.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/gss/postdoc/pdleave.htm</a><br>

The
 work is to be done 12 months of the year, excluding university 
holidays; the postdoctoral researcher is entitled to 24 paid personal 
days and 12 paid sick days per year.  For further information about 
postdoctoral appointments at UCLA: <a href="http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/postdocs.html" target="_blank">http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/postdocs.html</a><br>UAW Local 5810 is the Union for over 6,000 Postdoctoral Researchers at the University of California. <a href="http://uaw5810.org/" target="_blank">http://uaw5810.org/</a><br>

<br>Submit statement of interest, qualifications, CV, and list of three references to Sharon Traweek <a href="mailto:traweek@history.ucla.edu" target="_blank">traweek@history.ucla.edu</a><br>or Christine Borgman <a href="mailto:borgman@gseis.ucla.edu" target="_blank">borgman@gseis.ucla.edu</a><br>

<br><a href="http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf" target="_blank">http://knowledgeinfrastructures.gseis.ucla.edu/docs/SloanPostdoc_BorgmanTraweek_Announce.pdf</a>