Tenure Track Assistant Professorship or Associate Professorship in Science and Technology Studies and critical digital infrastructures at the IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor position in STS and Critical Digital Infrastructures starting in January or soon thereafter.

We invite applicants who want to contribute to the IT University's vision of creating and sharing knowledge that is profound and leads to ground-breaking information technology and services for the benefit of humanity. Job description It is increasingly necessary to conduct research and teaching that addresses the digital systems that underpin social life and the everyday function of society.

With this position, we invite applicants who work on such 'critical infrastructures'. Studies of critical infrastructures may deal with how they are negotiated, their complexity, practical accomplishments and effects, inherent values, and implications for justice, responsibility and legitimacy.

The successful applicant will be hired in the Technologies in Practice Research Section (TIP), which is one of Scandinavia’s leading research groups in STS. Research in TiP focuses on many different empirical areas impacted by digitalization such as green transition, the digital welfare state, education, policework, social work and much more.

The group presently consists of 10 permanent staff and about 30 people in other positions and career stages1 …