PCNINFO 02053: Mitarbeiterinnen gesucht
.. für die Mitarbeit im Forschungsprojekt "innovations and transformations - perspectives of transdisciplinary gender studies" ( abstract siehe unten)
zwei Praktikantinnen und zwei wissl. Mitarbeiterinnen (Werkvertrag):
- eine Biologin/Genetikerin/Medizinerin (bevorzugt: spezielle Kenntnisse in einem oder mehreren der folgenden Gebiete, fachbezogen und in der gesellschaftlichen Debatte: genetische Untersuchungen, hormonelle Behandlungen, Fruchtbarkeitsregulation)
- eine Informatikerin (bevorzugt: Softwareentwicklung, userorientierte Methoden, Kenntnis der Phasen des systems design, systems analysis,
Programmiersprachen)
Ausserdem auch an diesen Feldern interessierte Nicht-Fachfrauen fuer Moderation, Uebersetzungen und Administration, evtl. auch eine EDV- & Web-Frau.
Voraussetzungen:
- sehr gute Englischkenntnisse aktiv und passiv
- Faehigkeit, ueber die eigenen fachlichen Themen mit Fachleuten aus anderen Gebieten und mit Nicht-WissenschaftlerInnen erfolgreich zu kommunizieren und anderen zuzuhoeren
- gute Kenntnis der feministischen/gender studies oder Technikbewertung in ihrem Fachgebiet (gilt nur fuer wissl. Mitarb. und Praktikantinnen)
- hohe Teamfaehigkeit, social skills, Konflikttoleranz
- moeglichst flexible zeitliche Verfuegbarkeit entsprechend Anforderungen im Projektverlauf (Gesamtarbeitszeit s.u.)
Bei Bewerbungen um die wissenschaftliche Mitarbeit und um einen Praktikumsplatz koennen von Vorteil sein:
- Zweit-Qualifikation in anderem Fach oder Erfahrung in inter-/transdisziplinaerer Taetigkeit.
- Kompetenzen / Erfahrungen in/mit Technikbewertung, Wissenschaftskritik, partizipatorischen / user- bzw. KlientInnenorientierten Methoden
- Erfahrungen in der Zusammenarbeit mit nicht-wissenschaftlichen sozialen Gruppen,
- Berufserfahrungen in wissenschaftlichen und/oder in Entwicklungsprojekten
- Internet-Kompetenz (Recherchen, E-mailing, up-load auf Webseite)
Rahmenbedingungen:
Arbeitssprache: bei zwei internationalen Workshops Englisch, bei zwei ad-hoc-Workshops deutsch; Werkvertrag mit Gesamtarbeitszeit entsprechend 8 Monaten durchschnittlich á 15 bis 30 Std. wchtl. Persoenliche Anwesenheit in Wien streckenweise, ueber mehrere Bloecke und bei den workshops unbedingt erforderlich, Hauptwohnsitz Wien nicht erforderlich. Das Projekt ist befristet und befindet sich in der Anlaufphase. Arbeitsbeginn daher umgehend.
Bewerbungen an / weitere Infos bei:
Mag. Dr. M. Maurer
Wissenschaftliche Leitung
Project "Innovations & Transformations"
RLI, Rosa-Luxemburg-Institut, Julius-Tandler-Pl. 5/24, A-1090 Wien Tel. / Fax (13-14 h): +43/1/31 74 929
E-mail: margarete.maurer@univie.ac.at
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Ref: Program: Perspectives of Transdisciplinary Gender Research (funded by the Austrian Ministery of Education & Science, Vienna,
Austria)
B.1. General description of the project proposed - abstract
B.1.1 Title of the project:
Gender Research as innovative ressource for a sustainable and socially fair and just development of information and knowledge-societies
Short title: "Innovations und Transformations"
B.1.2 Fields of thematic subjects
The main topic of this project is to find out the position and to evaluate contemporary Gender Research in the context of the scientifically and technically determined transformations within the information and knowledge society in Austria (keyword: new technologies). Methodologically there will be used the method of comparative investigations of selected European regions and countries, whereby highly qualified experts and partners will be included for cooperation. The acceptability and the status of programs in Gender Research will also be analyzed with respect to its multidimensional connections to the existence and progress of gender equality policies in the particular countries or regions.
Crucial points:
*Investigation and discussion of the new technologies connected to the biological revolution within the fields of genetics and microbiology including reproductive medical technologies and their implications for health and a high quality of life.
*Investigation of the social transformations resulting from the implementation and diffusion of the new technologies of communication and information (NTCI).
*Based on the first two topics the innovative capacity of the Gender Research for the future development of knowledge and the use of the new technologies will be investigated.
B.1.3 Content and aims - Inhalt und Ziele
The aim of this project is to provide the Austrian Ministry of science and research with fundamental facts and justified reasonable perspectives for future science & research policies in the Special Research Program "Gender Studies". The focus is on the discussion of innovations and transformations which are knowledge- and technology-based, especially on the new technologies. Grounded on this aim the following questions are to be raised (not yet answered), with the intention to identify interesting future research questions and needs from a feminist perspective:
What theoretical approaches, concepts, and methods are highly promising from the perspective of Gender Studies in order to get an reliable analysis of the new kinds of transformations in society?
Will it be possible to transfer the experiences with participatory methods of software development into other areas , e.g. into the area of medical technologies, or not? Or how - by which changes and adaptations?
Will it be possible to adapt, and to use methodologies of technology assessment in feminist assessments and gender research regarding technological and scientific innovations?
What is the connection between the up to now - at least in German speaking countries - two mutually exclusive fields of sociology of technology/technology assessment and Gender Studies, and could these two still opposite fields of research in the German speaking countries be correlated in particular ways, perhaps even combined in a productive manner?
Further questions are:
- Which approaches and aims of Gender Research reveal concrete options of improvement in the sense of gender equality policies with a long term or sustainable perspectives within the future development of science, technology, and society?
How can the relevant social problems and research questions of future societietal developments in Europe be identified? (Here, sustainable or long term perspectives include ecological, social, and economical aspects.).
- In the case that Gender Research is regarded as innovative not just only for the analysis of the scientific-technically development of societies but also for the future development and structure of societies, how can this innovative capacity be supported?
- What is the level of Austrian research with respect to the international level of Gender Research in these areas, and how can Austrian programs in Gender Research become manifest and improved, in such a way that it does enter a long-term improvement - seen from a feminist perspective - of societies ?
- In the sense mentioned above there will be developed research perspectives for future European societies, and especially for the future society in Austria, at a very high level. These perspectives could serve as guideline for future public research programs in Gender Research and Gender Studies.
B.1.4 Prospective value of the outcome
The prospective value of the outcome of this project is to provide Austrian politics of science and research with the chance to get straight ahead - nationally and internationally - with a highly qualified research in Gender Research to top level science and research in that field.
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Wissenschaftliche Leitung, Mag. Dr. M. Maurer
RLI, Project "Innovations & Transformations"
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