[robocup-worldwide] Call for PhD Program applications Robotics and Gender, Deadline Sept. 15(!)

Thu Sep 1 09:15:59 EDT 2016

Dear RoboCupers,

please consider applying for the KoMMa.G PhD program.

The program offers a very interesting perspective by combining robotics (and other technical 
disciplines) with gender studies. If you have a background in robotics and an interest in gender 
studies or have a gender/diversity science background with relevant capabilities to design robots, 
you should apply.

One of the research threads to follow in the program is to improve telepresence (and similar) robots 
by applying results of gender/diversity research. However, you are free to propose your own PhD 
project within the framework of the overall program.

If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to drop me an email (r.gerndt at ostfalia.de 
<mailto:r.gerndt at ostfalia.de>).

Regards

Reinhard Gerndt

*The Doctoral Program “Konfigurationen von Mensch, Maschine und Geschlecht” (Gendered Configurations 
of Humans and Machines. Interdisciplinary Analyses of Technology) invites applications for **15 
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg scholarships for PhD students*

*Deadline: 15(!) September 2016*
The new interdisciplinary doctoral program “Configurations of Humans, Machines and Gender. 
Interdisciplinary Analyses of technology” funded by the federal state of Lower Saxony is a joint 
program conducted by the following institutions:
Braunschweig University of Technology: Institute of Flight Guidance, Department for the History of 
Science and Pharmacy, Institute for Communications Technology, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of 
Psychology, Institute of Steel Construction, Institute for Engineering Design, Ostfalia University 
of Applied Sciences: Faculties of Computer Science, Social Affairs, Electrical Engineering and 
Mechanical Engineering and Braunschweig University of Art: Institute for Media Studies.

**15 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg scholarships of 1.500 EUR per month **

****are available for successful candidates.

These may be awarded for a period of up to 3 years from January 2017. The program is hosted by the 
institutions listed above (Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel).

This collaborative program seeks to explore how human-machine-configurations that support inequality 
and injustice arise and which alternative configurations can be envisioned and created. Gender, as 
an analytical category, is placed at the center of this approach. Desirable research projects 
include specific case studies and technology development projects informed by critical reflections 
on gender. The disciplines in which the projects will be situated are either science and technology 
(or related) studies or technical and engineering disciplines, but the researchers will be required 
to cooperate across the boundaries of these two types of disciplines. Ideal candidates would already 
have experience in this kind of cooperation.

The program focuses on four research fields, in which the Ph.D. candidates and their supervisors 
will work across the boundaries of the social sciences, media studies, the humanities and the 
natural and engineering sciences:

  * Abstraction and Modelling

  * Creativity and Design

  * Materialising/ Virtualising / Representation

  * Networks and Emotions.

The doctoral program is chaired by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Corinna Bath (speaker, TU Braunschweig and 
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig (co-speaker, TU Braunschweig). 
For the research program, the supervisors and their topics as well as grant conditions see 
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/kommag. Informal inquiries can be directed at: 
c.bath at tu-braunschweig.de <mailto:c.bath at tu-braunschweig.de>.

*Requirements*: Applicants should have an above-average degree (generally master’s) in a related 
discipline. We expect you to be able to communicate in German and/or English and to be prepared to 
engage with topics and methods of gender studies within the context of the research training group. 
We welcome graduates eager to engage in interdisciplinary work that transcends the boundaries 
between technical disciplines and the humanities, and to get access to methods and concepts outside 
their core disciplines.

*Please submit your application* by 15(!) September 2016 (in the form of a C.V., cover letter, scans 
of degree certificates and other certificates of employment,) as well as an outline of your proposed 
Ph.D. project, including a preliminary timetable (maximum 5 pages), preferably in a single pdf file, 
to komma-g at tu-braunschweig.de <mailto:komma-g at tu-braunschweig.de>.
Please try to align your proposed project with on of the research fields outlined on the website, 
noting that some of the projects have specific requirements. You can find details on our website:
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/kommag

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