Job offer at Robert K. Merton Centre: Research Position, E13 75%, 4 years, international project "MultiSocVal" (funded by Volkswagen Stiftung)
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Stephan Gauch
May 28, 2024, 4:37:07 AMMay 28
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Dear all,
The Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies (RMZ) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering a job to aspiring researchers in the fields of Information Science and Science Studies, with a focus on reflexive scientometric research and a specific interest in the societal value of research. If you are proficient in either R or Python (or both) and are not afraid to delve into qualitative and quantitative research, you may want to check out the job offer.
Your main field of activity will be with exploring new & interesting ways to scientometrically map societal value of research and combine them with other data sources such as survey data.
Application Deadline: 26.06.24
Position: Junior Researcher, 75% (E13)
Duration: 4 years
Project start: 01.09.2024
Detailed job offer: https://hu.berlin/multisocval-job
About the project: Many governments are showing a political commitment to research impact in their respective environments by investing in research evaluation initiatives at different scales. Often the initiatives are characterised by pragmatism, with little attention to underlying value judgements. This creates an urgent need for comparative work with a strong theoretical and empirical basis to study the effects of national evaluation initiatives around impact and societal value. The project will address this need through a multi-country and multi-method study of research evaluation initiatives in Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Poland and South Africa. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team, the project seeks to (1) produce a comprehensive cross-national and cross-disciplinary overview of research systems with regard to scientific and societal value; (2) investigate what is considered worthwhile research within and between countries; (3) compare the effects of different research evaluation initiatives around impact on research practice in different countries; (4) develop an integrated conceptual framework of scientific and societal value to improve science policy and science practice; and (5) advance stakeholders' understanding of the effects of research impact assessment for better future evaluation.
About RMZ: The Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies (RMZ) serves as an interdisciplinary platform for research and teaching in Science Studies in its broadest sense. Specifically, this includes Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Science, Library and Information Science, Higher Education Research, History of Science, Meta-Research and others.
The project team is rather international with members from The University of Melbourne (AU), SWPS University (PL)
& Stellenbosch University (ZA). You will alsowork with me, if that is any kind of incentive.
Questions? Drop me an email (stepha...@hu-berlin.de)
Kindest,
Stephan
The Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies (RMZ) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering a job to aspiring researchers in the fields of Information Science and Science Studies, with a focus on reflexive scientometric research and a specific interest in the societal value of research. If you are proficient in either R or Python (or both) and are not afraid to delve into qualitative and quantitative research, you may want to check out the job offer.
Your main field of activity will be with exploring new & interesting ways to scientometrically map societal value of research and combine them with other data sources such as survey data.
Application Deadline: 26.06.24
Position: Junior Researcher, 75% (E13)
Duration: 4 years
Project start: 01.09.2024
Detailed job offer: https://hu.berlin/multisocval-job
About the project: Many governments are showing a political commitment to research impact in their respective environments by investing in research evaluation initiatives at different scales. Often the initiatives are characterised by pragmatism, with little attention to underlying value judgements. This creates an urgent need for comparative work with a strong theoretical and empirical basis to study the effects of national evaluation initiatives around impact and societal value. The project will address this need through a multi-country and multi-method study of research evaluation initiatives in Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Poland and South Africa. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary team, the project seeks to (1) produce a comprehensive cross-national and cross-disciplinary overview of research systems with regard to scientific and societal value; (2) investigate what is considered worthwhile research within and between countries; (3) compare the effects of different research evaluation initiatives around impact on research practice in different countries; (4) develop an integrated conceptual framework of scientific and societal value to improve science policy and science practice; and (5) advance stakeholders' understanding of the effects of research impact assessment for better future evaluation.
About RMZ: The Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies (RMZ) serves as an interdisciplinary platform for research and teaching in Science Studies in its broadest sense. Specifically, this includes Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Science, Library and Information Science, Higher Education Research, History of Science, Meta-Research and others.
The project team is rather international with members from The University of Melbourne (AU), SWPS University (PL)
& Stellenbosch University (ZA). You will alsowork with me, if that is any kind of incentive.
Questions? Drop me an email (stepha...@hu-berlin.de)
Kindest,
Stephan
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