CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS Archives

ACM SIGCHI General Interest Announcements (Mailing List)

CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Luigina Ciolfi <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Luigina Ciolfi <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:19:58 +0000
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (154 lines)
Research Fellow in Nomadic Work/Lives in the Knowledge Economy
College of Humanities
Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society
University of Limerick, Ireland

This research position arose as a result of the University of  
Limerick's participation in the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP)  
which brings together expertise from eight Irish institutional  
partners and 19 academic disciplines to create an all-island,  
interdisciplinary platform for social science research. ISSP has been  
granted €16.5m as part of the Programme for Research in Third-Level  
Institutions (PRTLI), Cycle 4.

Research Fellow in Nomadic Work/Lives in the Knowledge Economy
This Research Fellow will work on the “Nomadic work/lives in the  
knowledge economy project”, which involves collaboration between the  
Department of Sociology, Women’s Studies and the Interaction Design  
Centre (IDC), Department of Computer Science and Information Systems  
at UL. The Research Fellow will play the lead role in co-ordinating  
the project team (two faculty members and two PhDs) to meet the  
targets set for the project and will be located in the Department of  
Sociology.

This project is located within a new mobilities-oriented social  
science in which movement, potential movement and blocked movement  
are seen as constitutive of economic, social, political, cultural and  
material relations (Urry 2007). This ‘new mobilities  
paradigm’ (Hannam et al, 2006, p. 2) identifies the power of  
discourses and practices of mobility in the knowledge economy and how  
they in turn produce new understandings of movement and stasis (Gray,  
2004; 2006). This concern with mobility within the knowledge economy  
has given rise to academic debate about changes in work practices.  
Much of this debate suggests a shift from work practices structured  
by time and space (often 9-5 in the workplace/office), and clear  
demarcations between paid work and non-paid work life, to more  
flexible, multi-located nomadic work practices that blur the  
boundaries between work and life (Ciolfi et al., 2005).

This project brings debates about the knowledge economy, the future  
of work and a more local and de-centered notion of mobility, i.e.  
nomadicity, together to investigate ‘nomadic work/life practices’ and  
the relationship between these and what has come to be known as the  
‘new economy or the ‘knowledge economy’. The project also examines  
the assumption that new technologies facilitate and enable both  
nomadic work/life practices and thus the progress of the knowledge  
economy.
The nomadic work/lives project is concerned then with investigating  
the relationships between a technologically-mediated knowledge  
economy, mobile/nomadic work and non-work life practices. The project  
starts out with the question of whether, as the academic literature  
suggests, new work/life patterns are emerging; if so, how these might  
be most plausibly theorised; what their gendered implications for  
work and home life are; and how everyday work/life practices are  
technologically mediated.  The project brings together concerns and  
issues pertaining to the societal and identity-related matters of  
‘being mobile’, and the interaction design and computer-supported  
cooperative work tradition studies of workplace and technology use.

Further information for applicants and application material is  
available online from: http://www.ul.ie/hrvacancies/

  For queries about this position, please contact Dr. Breda Gray  
([log in to unmask])

More information regarding the project is available at: http:// 
richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/NomadicWorkLifeInformationforApplicants1.doc

The closing date for receipt of applications is 22nd February 2008.  
Applications must be completed online before 12 noon on the closing  
date.




PhDs Research Opportunities at the University of Limerick
Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society

The PhD opportunities are to conduct research as part of the “Nomadic  
work/lives in the knowledge economy project”, which involves  
collaboration between the Department of Sociology, Women’s Studies  
and the Interaction Design Centre (IDC), Department of Computer  
Science and Information Systems at UL.

The nomadic work/lives project is concerned then with investigating  
the relationships between a technologically-mediated knowledge  
economy, mobile/nomadic work and non-work life practices. The project  
starts out with the question of whether, as the academic literature  
suggests, new work/life patterns are emerging; if so, how these might  
be most plausibly theorised; what their gendered implications for  
work and home life are; and how everyday work/life practices are  
technologically mediated.  The project brings together concerns and  
issues pertaining to the societal and identity-related matters of  
‘being mobile’, and the interaction design and computer-supported  
cooperative work tradition studies of workplace and technology use.

PhD1 The gender of work/life in the knowledge economy
Women’s increased labour market participation in developed countries  
is seen as a route to autonomy and greater gender equality.  
Nonetheless, labour markets and work practices remain gendered  
especially at those points of intersection between how people earn a  
living and care for others (Gillard et al., 2007). This research will  
intervene in recent academic debates about the relationships between  
the ‘knowledge economy’ labour market, changing household structures  
and shifts in the gender regime. It will also address the public/ 
private nexus of nomadic work/life organisation and its gendered  
dimensions. It will address such questions as: How do women and men  
negotiate the boundaries between paid work and other parts of their  
lives? How are these negotiations mediated by new technologies,  
changes in work practices, and classed/ethnicised gender regimes? In  
what ways are strategies for managing nomadic work/life boundaries  
gendered? Are new gendered norms and expectations emerging? Are these  
more equal? Do they deliver more gender justice?
For queries, contact Dr. Breda Gray ([log in to unmask])

PhD2 Practices of technologically-mediated nomadicity in the  
knowledge economy
Within the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and  
Interaction Design, an increasing attention is being paid to aspects  
of mobile and nomadic activities that interactive technology can  
support. More recently, work has been conducted to highlight situated  
aspects of mobility. For example, Kakihara and Sorensen have  
suggested how “mobility” as a notion needs to be unpacked into not  
simply a location-related notion, but in terms of interactional  
practices (Kakihara and Sorensen, 2005). Brown and O’Hara (2003) have  
argued how place constitutes a crucial practical concern for mobile  
workers, as they are constantly situated within a lived environment.
  This PhD will explore issues related to the technological mediation  
of nomadic practices: how do place, activities and the social world  
constitute the experience of nomadic users? In what way technologies  
are shaping people’s work/life on the move? What are the aspects of  
mobile interaction that design could meaningfully support?
The research will be situated within the research areas of Human- 
Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and  
Interaction Design
For queries, contact Dr. Luigina Ciolfi ([log in to unmask])


  More information regarding the project is available at: http:// 
richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/NomadicWorkLifeInformationforApplicants1.doc

The closing date for applications is 22 February 2008.
Further details on the topics and application process are available  
from:
Niamh Lenahan, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Tel: +353-61-202945                       Email:  [log in to unmask]


  
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
                To unsubscribe, send an empty email to
     mailto:[log in to unmask]
    For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv
    ---------------------------------------------------------------

ATOM RSS1 RSS2