Senior Research Associate (SRA) - Organizing

Salary: £40,745 - £45,737 per annum (full time)

We are delighted to announce a new grade J Senior Research Associate (SRA) post. The SRA will join a genuinely interdisciplinary team (crossing Management, Sociology, STS, Computer Science and Engineering) and will explore what it means to ‘organize’ in a sociodigital era. The times, spaces and powers of organizing and organizations are being altered by the by the algorithmic shaping of human and non-human activity. We are researching new ways to understand  agency, decision making, skill and even what it means to decide that a particular sociodigital arrangement is ‘an organization’ and develop methods for making organizing ‘visible’, across time and space, within and between organisations.

What will you be doing?

• Contributing to the design, development, implementation and delivery of fieldwork and research projects with the Organising Futures Domain
• Collaborating with other Domains of Practice teams, the Threads, Technical Affordance Projects (TAPs) and Futures Studio teams to design, co-ordinate, and deliver research and other activities across the Centre
• Collaborating with the Centre’s strategic partners (for example BT, Defra, Locality) in developing the programme of research and activities
• Playing a lead role (with support) in analysis and in the preparation of publications, other outputs (including blogs, social media, etc.), and wider impact and engagement.

Deadline: 3 August 2023