While nanotechnology is full with far-reaching promises mobilizing researchers, funding agencies and innovation actors, concerns about potential risks emerged as well. Promises and risk concerns are forms of expectation-building, and both are shaped and coordinated in societal dis-courses and in dedicated forms of systematic expectation-building as foresight and technology assessment. These diverging forms of expectation-building can also be described as different modes of governing promises and risks (see also http://www.utwente.nl/mb/steps/people/scientific/ konrad/EASST 2010 Konrad Governance of and by expectations.pdf). How exactly the different forms of expectation-building and coordination as part of societal discourses, foresight and technology assessment programmes have evolved, how they interact and how they affect the development of nanotechnology is the topic of this PhD project. The PhD student will also examine how various innovation actors from research, industry and policy have been affected by different modes of expectation-building and how they contribute to their further evolution.
Description
The ideal candidate will have completed a master’s degree related to science, technology and innovation studies or a master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as sociology, policy studies or business administration and got acquainted with the field in some other way (courses, projects etc.). Acquaintance with qualitative research methods, discourse analysis and nanotechnology is an asset.
Research Fields
Technology
Benefits
We offer a very challenging position in an inspiring multidisciplinary environment. The Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies is renowned for its excellent research and has been evaluated accordingly. As a PhD candidate you will be appointed in a full-time position (38 hours/week) for a period of four years, at the end of which you must have completed your PhD thesis. The gross monthly salary for a PhD increases from € 2042 in the first year to € 2612 in the final year (in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities). In addi-tion, the University of Twente offers additional attractive employment conditions. As a PhD candidate you will join the programme “Governance of Knowledge and Innovation” of the Twente Graduate School (http://www.utwente.nl/tgs/programmes/innovationandgovernancestudies/). The GKI programme provides participants with the necessary qualifications to contribute to com-parative research in the governance of science, technology, innovation, higher education and research, seeking to understand social, cultural and historical dynamics conceptually and empirically.
Benefits
2042 - 2612
Requirements
| Degree | University Graduate |
|---|---|
| Degree Field | Technology |
| Degree | Other |
|---|---|
| Degree Field | Economics |
| Main Research Field | Technology |
|---|---|
| Years of Research Experience | 1 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
|---|---|
| Language Level | Good |
Company/Institute
University of Twente
Other
Postbus 217
7500 AE - Enschede
NETHERLANDS
emailrecruitment@utwente.nlhttp://www.universiteittwente.nl/en
Postbus 217
7500 AE - Enschede
NETHERLANDS
emailrecruitment@utwente.nlhttp://www.universiteittwente.nl/en
Application details
Application Deadline
03/03/2011
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