University of Copenhagen

Dear ECREA fellows,

We have a job opening as postdoctoral researcher at The Center for Tracking & Society at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Datafied Living project. The position is full-time for a duration of up to 2 years to be filled by 1 January 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position targets researchers in the area of Datafied Work and is part of the Datafied Living research project which runs 2021-2025 and is funded by the ERC (datafiedliving.ku.dk). The candidate’s research activities will advance the aims of the Datafied Living project regarding empirical studies of how digital tracking and datafication affects work practices and decision-making in key welfare institutions (such as education and healthcare) and private sector organisations; and how datafied societies should respond to such developments.

As postdoc in Datafied Living you will be expected to, independently and in collaboration with other researchers in the team, contribute to advancing empirical datafication research along one or more of the following lines:

• Developing organizational studies of datafication that can inform current and future policy making around data, work, and algorithmic management.
  
• Developing empirical studies of how digital tracking and data-driven decision-making transform professional work and workplaces.
  
• Linking empirical developments in datafied work and algorithmic management to current regulatory efforts at the national and EU levels.
  

You will have your daily working space in the Center for Tracking and Society (CTS). CTS is an interdisciplinary research hub that develops and consolidates emerging interdisciplinary and empirical research on the interplay between digital tracking, existing social structures and the various actors that form future society. The interdisciplinary work at CTS spans media and communication, computer science, surveillance, political economy and critical data studies.

For more info on the position, see https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=160069

Kind regards on behalf of the Datafied Living team,

Stine Lomborg, PI and director of Center for Tracking & Society