The Science and Democracy Network (SDN) was established in 2002 to enhance the quality and significance of scholarship in science and technology studies (STS) by training young professionals and by forging links between STS and related fields of study and practice.
The SDN sponsors an annual meeting whose primary goal is to strengthen and deepen STS scholarship on science and democracy, and to provide training opportunities for young STS scholars to enable them to participate more effectively in decision processes and public affairs.
To: SDN Members; From: SDN Council
We are delighted to inform you that we have received a grant from the Bassetti Foundation in Milan to launch a series of publications that we hope will make the findings and perspectives of the Science and Democracy Network known to wider audiences within and beyond academia. As some of you may recall, this project was discussed as a possibility at the 2008 SDN Annual Meeting. It is a pleasure to report that we are now in a position to move forward toward actually realizing it. With this writing, we are soliciting your input, as well as your possible participation as authors. Read the full CFP here.
Posted by Sheila Jasanoff, 20 December 2009.
"The construction of social classification schemata: occupational statistics in Belgium, Great-Britain and the United States"
Since the nineteenth century, both Europeans and Americans have become "calculating people". Numerous statistics now inform us about both the social realities they strive to measure and the constructs which organize that measuring. Administrative statistics from the nineteenth and twentieth century are doubly precious documents about the social world they mean to describe: precious for the figures they provide, and precious for their structures or forms, which are traces of the intentions and conflicts that presided over their production.
By means of a case-study, this research project aims to study the genesis of administrative statistical categories that organize our observations and representations of the social world. The focus of this research project is on the history of occupational and educational statistics. The approach is comparative. Three countries will be studied: Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain (England and Wales). The research is aimed to result in a Ph.D. dissertation.
The position will be open to candidates with a sociological, philosophical and/or historical degree. We initially offer a contract for 12 months; after a positive evaluation, the contract will be renewable up to a total period of 4 years (48 months). The starting date is negotiable, but it can be no later than 1 October 2010. The net salary will be approx. 1700 - 1800 € per month. Info contact: Raf.Vanderstraeten@Ugent.be
Posted by Sheila Jasanoff, 18 January 2010.
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