4-year PhD position in the FNS funded research project "Digital Humanitarianism" - The Geneva Graduate Institute

[Julie Billaud]

Dear colleagues,

I am hiring a PhD researcher with an anthropology, sociology, STS or Political Sciences (with ethnographic fieldwork experience) background for my 4-year SNF funded project "Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Techological Innovation" at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The project aims to examine how ‘digital humanitarianism’ is emerging as a field of knowledge, a community of practice and an arena of experimentation through the development of partnerships between humanitarian organisations, private corporations and scientific institutions. 

It is conducted by an international team of anthropologists, that includes me (the PI), a postdoctoral fellow, and two researchers from the University of Makerere in Uganda, across four sites located on 4 continents: (1) Stanford University and the tech-philanthropies of the Silicon Valley, (2) the scientific laboratories of a Polytechnic school in Switzerland (EPFL), as well as (3) refugee settlements in Uganda and (4) Jordan.

Under my supervision, and in collaboration with the EPFL EssentialTech Centre the appointed PhD student will conduct research on the prototyping of digital technologies for humanitarian purposes in the scientific laboratories of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

The project is administered by the Center for Digital Humanities and Multilateralism. More information about the project can be found on this page.

Applicants should send their dossier before June, 2 via this platform.

I would be very grateful if you could circulate the job announcement among your PhD students and networks.

Best regards,