Rob Kitchin has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator award for a project entitled ‘The Programmable City’.   The project is essentially an empirical extension of the Code/Space book (MIT Press, 2011), focusing on the intersection of smart urbanism, ubiquitous computing…

Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellowship are sought within a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded project on The New Transparency at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Application deadline: 22nd of February.

The University of Essex (UK) has the following two jobs advertised. Lecturer in Criminology Lecturer in Sociology Additional information can be obtained through Dr. Pete Fussey, if people especially from the SSN community are interested.

Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellowship are sought within a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded project on The New Transparency at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. This is a seven-year Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) project (2008-2015).…

A fully funded full time PhD studentship in surveillance studies is available at the Open University Business School: The closing date for applications is the 3rd September 2012 with interviews on the 26th September, and the start date is 1st…

September 2012 to April 2013 — 10 Month Contract, with the possibility of renewal up to an additional 12 months — Number of hours and number of work weeks are flexible depending on the candidate’s preference and schedule (max 10…

The Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield is pleased to advertise for the following posts: Part-Time (40%) Research Assistant RESPECT Project Job Reference Number: UOS004272 The project will evaluate social, economic and privacy costs of growth of…

Call for applications Post Doctoral Fellowship in Surveillance Studies at The University of Toronto, Faculty of Information The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position (two years in residence), starting September 2012…

The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting research project seeks to fill one post-doctoral fellow position, starting summer 2012 based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. This is a one-year term position with the possibility of…

For the academic year 2012-13 (start date 1st October 2012) we are inviting applications for a full-time funded PhD studentship (circa £14,000 per annum) in the field of surveillance. This project is part-funded by The New Transparency Major Collaborative Research…