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        Date: 2024-11-02 10:56:20+00:00
        From: Susan Schreibman <susan.schreibman@gmail.com>
        Subject: Hiring a post-doc in Data and Ethnography at Maastricht University

Please note closing date of 15 November.

Are you an emergent scholar interested in doing research in a creative team? Do
you have a background in data work? Do you also have ethnographic experience or
an ethnographic sensibility? This opportunity may be for you!

Job Description

The Department of Society Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to
undertake exciting research about hospital practices. You will be part of a new
team doing research helping to address the escalating issue of clinical waste.
The project is called The Upcycled Clinic: A global ethnography of material
creativity in contemporary medicine (Make Do Medicine for short). The focus of
this European Research Council funded project is on hospitals and clinics, which
have become sites of disposability in recent years. Attempts to address this can
be top-down and technocratic, often still reliant on a mode of further
production. Make Do Medicine takes a different route into the problem. It
focuses on creative practices already happening in the clinic, involving making
the most of existing materials. You will be part of a team conducting research
around the world where such improvisations are highlighted due to different
constraints.

The project focuses on the unexplored yet potentially insightful practices of
material creativity where existing materials are being repurposed for another
use. The pandemic's disruptions offered the world’s scientists a fascinating
natural experiment for looking at innovations in times of crisis and has
important lessons for understanding the role of creative repurpose. But how to
study this some years later?

The ambitious goal of this postdoc will be look further into the early period
of the pandemic to draw lessons and insights from existing data and material
gathered by other researchers in and about clinical settings. In your role you
will first locate this data and then undertake a qualitative analysis of the
material. Initially the research will involve working with datasets from Dutch
settings, however this will likely expand to other countries. Methodologically
the research means working with an ethnographic sensibility (see McGranahan
2018), where you will study these datasets curious about improvisations with
materials, noticing details of the hospital practices. Data analysis can be
enhanced through conducting interviews, object analysis and fieldwork where
needed.


What we offer

As a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, you
will be employed by the most international university in the Netherlands,
located in the beautiful city of Maastricht. In addition, we offer you:

Good employment conditions. The position is graded in scale 11 according to UFO
profile Researcher, level 3, with corresponding salary, based on experience,
ranging from €4492,00 and €6148,00 gross per month (based on a full-time
employment of 38 hours per week). The exact amount will depend on factors such
as previous experience and time from PhD. In addition to the monthly salary, an
8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus apply.
An employment contract for a period of 12 months with a scope of 0.8 FTE (with
an option to make this 1.0 fte with teaching tasks). Upon a positive evaluation,
an extension of a further 2.5 years will follow.
At Maastricht University, the well-being of our employees is of utmost
importance, we offer flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly
from home if the nature of your position allows it. You will receive a monthly
commuting and internet allowance for this. If you work full-time, you will be
entitled to 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, namely
carnival Monday, carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, and Liberation Day. If you
choose to accumulate compensation hours, an additional 12 days will be added.
Furthermore, you can personalize your employment conditions through a collective
labor agreement (CAO) choice model.

As Maastricht University, we offer various other excellent secondary employment
conditions. These include a good pension scheme with the ABP and the opportunity
for UM employees to participate in company fitness and make use of the extensive
sports facilities that we also offer to our students.
Last but certainly not least, we provide the space and facilities for your
personal and professional development. We facilitate this by offering a wide
range of training programs and supporting various well-established initiatives
such as 'acknowledge and appreciate’.

For more information, please see the full job description at
https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Post-Doc-in-Data-and-
Ethnography/804383002/


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