Deputy Directorship: Research Centre for Social Sciences, Edinburgh

["Dagmar M. Meyer" <dmeyer@DROPMEmariecurie.org>]

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THE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES (RCSS) AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY

  Dear Colleague

  I am very pleased to be able to draw your attention to the creation of
a new post of Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Social
Sciences.  This appointment is at Senior Lecturer or Reader level. We
are looking for someone able to play a leading role in our new Institute
for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation in developing our
research programmes in one or more of the following areas:
  Information and Communications Technologies,
  Genomics/Life Science Technologies,
  Environmental Innovation,
  emerging technologies
  Science and Technology Policy.

  I would be very grateful if you could pass this circular on to
colleagues who may be interested, and also forward details to relevant
lists and bulletin boards.

  I would be happy to discuss the job with interested candidates.  Full
details of the job are pasted below along with information about the
on-line application procedure.  Closing date 27th May.

  best wishes

  Robin Williams
  Director
  Research Centre for Social Sciences

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  Deputy Director, Research Centre for Social Sciences
  School of Social and Political Studies
  College of Humanities and Social Science
  (Senior Lectureship/Readership : full-time, permanent)
  Salary Scale:  £37,558 - £42,573
  Closing Date:  27 May 2005
  Vacancy Reference: 3004412
  As part of the Research Centre for Social Sciences, you will be
expected to take a leading role in developing collaborative funding
applications and fostering the work of others, as well as pursuing your
own interests in science and technology studies. Through active
engagement in research, teaching and administration you will make a
major contribution to the research programme of the Institute for the
Study of Science Technology and Innovation and play a full part in the
collegial life of the School of Social and Political Studies. You should
have a background in the social science of science and technology.
  The appointment will be made from 1 September 2005 or by negotiation.

  Further Particulars

  THE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES (RCSS) AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY

  The Research Centre for Social Sciences was established in 1984 to
promote high quality multidisciplinary research and to offer specialist
advice on methodology, funding and research policy. Within the School of
Social and Political Studies, RCSS is a key centre for securing and
managing large-scale research grants. Its main areas of activity are
socio-economic research on technology, including information and
communication technologies, environment, risk and technology transfer
and genomics (RCSS hosts INNOGEN, the prestigious ESRC Centre for Social
and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics). RCSS hosts the
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
(issti.ed.ac.uk), a vibrant research collaboration that extends beyond
the School to include the Schools of Management, Law, Informatics and
colleagues from the Colleges of Science and Engineering and Medicine and
Veterinary Medicine. With a distinctive tradition of interdisciplinary
research, much of it revolving around them of the social shaping of
technology, Edinburgh is one of the leading UK centres for technology
studies. An exciting research environment has been established involving
over twenty contract staff, with funding from the Economic and Social
Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council, the European Union and a range of other sources. We are
increasingly invited to tender for Science, Technology and Environmental
Policy Studies.

  THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES

  RCSS is part of the School of Social and Political Studies (SSPS), the
other constituents of which are Politics, Social Anthropology, Social
Policy, Social Work, and Sociology, the Science Studies Unit (SSU, which
has close links to RCSS), the Institute of Governance, and the Centres
for African, Canadian and South Asian Studies. The Head of School is
currently Professor Lorraine Waterhouse. The School is part of the
College of Humanities and Social Science.

  FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE POST

  Research

  The Deputy Director will be required to be fully active in research
including taking a leading role in collaborative funding applications
and fostering the work of others, as well as pursuing their own
interests and publishing in top-rated journals. The appointment will be
at senior lectureship or readership level depending on the established
record of research. The appointee will be expected to work across
disciplinary boundaries and to forge interdisciplinary and international
links. The applicant should have a background in science and technology
studies or an established interest research in technological innovation
from one of the disciplines of the School of Social and Political
Studies.

  The Deputy Director will assist and deputise for the Director in the
management of large-scale research grants (including line-supervising
contract research staff). S/he will be required to build and extend
networks across the School, College and beyond.

  Teaching

  The Deputy Director will be involved in postgraduate supervision and
teaching in the area of Science and Technology Studies (jointly convened
by RCSS and SSU through the Graduate School in Social and Political
Studies www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/sts/index.html) and may be required
to contribute to undergraduate teaching in this area. In addition, the
appointee may be expected to teach at honours level in the School, to
contribute to School MSc and/or research training teaching and to
supervise postgraduates in the School.

  Administration

  The position of Deputy Director of RCSS has been created to provide
support and to deputise for the Director in the management of the
grants, staff and activities (e.g. the seminar series) of the Centre.

  STAFF IN THE CENTRE

  Professor Robin Williams, MA MSc PhD (Professor of Social Research on
Technology, Director RCSS); Social shaping of technology; Information
and Communication Technologies; Genomics and emerging technologies;
Environmental Innovation; Policy implications of Technological change

  Professor Joyce Tait, B.Sc., PhD. (Professor and Director of ESRC
Innogen Centre): interdisciplinary research, life sciences, strategic
decision making in companies; policy analysis; risk assessment and
regulation; Foresight; UK and international; member of Scientific &
Technical Council of the International Risk Governance Council, the
Scottish Science Advisory Committee, and the Office of Science and
Technology Foresight Team working on Detection and Identification of
Infectious Diseases

  Mrs Ann Bruce, BSc MSc (Research Fellow) Values and interests in
stakeholder interactions, research evaluation and the management of
interdisciplinary research, stakeholder participation particularly in
risk-related issues.

  Dr Raluca Bunduchi, BSc, MSc, PhD (Research Fellow): Use of
Information technologies, ebusiness, IT standardisation

  Dr Luciana, DAdderio, Laurea, MSc, PhD (Research Fellow):
Organisational knowledge and learning, culture and structure;
Engineering Design and Manufacturing. Innovation. Information systems
dependability.

  Mrs Moyra Forrest, MA, MCLIP, JP (Information Officer)

  Ms Martina Gerst, MBA (Research Fellow): Networked organisations,
research into standards

  Dr Gill Haddow, MSc, PhD, (Research Fellow), organ donation, DNA
databanks; sociology of the body and new medical therapies.

  Mrs Julie Hamilton, BSc, (Project Manager Innogen)

  Dr Gillian Hardstone, BA, MBA, PhD (Research Fellow): Dependability

  Dr Fiona Harris, MA., PhD. (Research Fellow): Public engagement, stem
cells and the new genetics; research methods; arts-based communication;
anthropology of ritual, religious change, emotion and embodiment;
Southeast Asia; Sarawak & Scotland.

  Dr Lisa Lee, BA, MA, PhD (Research Fellow) Digital Media, internet
guides.

  Dr Catherine Lyall, BSc, MSc, PhD (Research Fellow):
science/technology/innovation policy; devolution and the multi-level
governance of science and innovation; Foresight; research evaluation;
managing interdisciplinary research.

  Ms Angela McEwan, (Secretary, Innogen)

  Dr James Mittra, BA., MA., PhD. (Research Fellow): Innovation studies;
science and technology studies; deliberative democracy; public
understanding of science; gene ethics and regulation

  Mrs Eileen Mothersole, (Secretary RCSS)

  Dr Sarah Parry, BA., MA., PhD. (Lecturer in Sociology, based in RCSS):
Social, cultural and political aspects of the new human genetics,
critical approaches to the public understanding of science (cPUS),
constructions of ageing, the gendered body and nature.

  Dr Neil Pollock, BSc, MSc, PhD., (Lecturer, Sociology, part based
RCSS): Sociology of Information & Communication Technologies; Virtual
Universities; Biography of Software Packages.

  Dr Alessandro Rosiello, MSc, PhD. (Research Fellow): Industrial
Organisation, Economic Geography, Regional and Innovation Policy.
Scotland, Europe

  Mrs Barbara Silander, (Secretary, RCSS)

  Dr Graham Spinardi, BSc, PhD (Research Fellow, RCSS; Temporary
Lecturer, Science Studies, 2003-05). Defence technology, in particular
nuclear weapons systems, ballistic missile defence and radar. Testing of
technology and the social construction of technical facts. Environmental
innovation.

  Dr James Stewart, BEng, MSc, PhD (Research Fellow, RCSS, Research
Associate, Dept of Architecture). Technology Studies, Social Shaping of
ICTs; User research and adoption of technology; Innovation research in
ICTs; Telecommunications policy; Digital divide and development. Europe.

  Mrs Anne Valentine, BA, Dip Intl Mktg, (Research Administrator, RCSS)
  Dr Mark Winskel, BSc, MSc, PhD (Research Fellow): Renewable energy
innovation systems

  Application Procedure:
  Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Robin Williams
(Robin.Williams &at& ed.ac.uk, 0044 131 650 6387).

  Please follow the on-line application procedure at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk
  (To get to the advertisement and further particulars, enter the
vacancy reference number 3004412 in the box at the top right of the jobs
web page)

  Complete and return the Application Form (quoting reference number
3004412) together with your CV and letter of application to Ms Anne
Valentine, RCSS, School of Social and Political Studies, Old Surgeons
Hall, High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ, Scotland, by the closing
date of 27 May 2005.
  Complete and return the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form to
Recruitment, Human Resources, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT.
We cannot guarantee to consider late applications.

  It is expected that interviews will be held on 21 June 2005, with
candidates giving presentations on 20 June 2005.

  Unless applicants signal that they withhold their permission, members
of RCSS will be given an opportunity to inspect, in confidence, the
letters of application and CVs of those who apply for this post, and the
letters of application and CVs of short-listed applicants will be made
available for inspection by all those attending the presentations prior
to interview.
  Candidates should supply details of two referees. The selection panel
will identify a further one or two referees in respect of short-listed
candidates. All references will be confidential to the selection panel.