Two fully funded PhD Studentships, dept of Sociology, Lancaster University - applications invited
Applications are invited for two fully funded +3
studentships for Home/EU students who already have a relevant Masters’
degree. The studentships are to start in October 2018. Further details
and information about applying are available
at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/
Transitions in the technologies and practices of office work: Manchester’s administrative industries (1960-2017)
With Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
This project investigates the relation between
innovations in office technology - from filing cabinets and fax machines
through to hard drives and email – and changing competencies and
experiences of office work. The research will makes
use of the Museum of Science and Industry’s (MSI) collection of
office-related objects, and of secondary sources together with
interviews and focus groups to find out how innovations in office
technology have affected the nature and location of office work
and vice versa. In tackling these questions, and in showing what past
innovations in office work might reveal about the future, the research
will bring together concepts and approaches from fields such as science
and technology studies, material culture and
the sociology of everyday practice, also developing a novel integration
of methods of material culture/object analysis, interviews, focus
groups and archival research.
Deadline for applications: 12th February 2018
Situating Everyday First Aid: Social Practices and Settings of Incidents and Help.
With the British Red Cross.
The project investigates the social organisation of
first aid. The research will focus on the social and institutional
settings within which first aid ‘incidents’ occur and how these settings
influence the kinds of ‘responses’ and forms
of help that follow.
The aim is to provide a better understanding of
accidents, risks, and harms by positioning first aid incidents not as
random events but as embedded in the spatial and temporal ordering of
social practices and social life. The project is
designed to generate further understanding of the social organisation
of help and what this means for those involved in developing and
providing first aid training.
Deadline for applications: 9th February 2018