Three Scholarship offerings for UNU-MERIT‏'s Evidence-Based Policy Research Methods (EPRM) course

Three Scholarship offerings for UNU-MERIT‏'s Evidence-Based Policy Research Methods (EPRM) course.

Application Deadline: 21 March 2018

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Call for Applications: SAU Residential Summer School 2018

Residential Summer School on Epistemes for Conceptualising the Contemporary

Dates: 5-12 June, 2018 (Tentative) 

Venue of the School: Outside Delhi (Venue to be finalised)

Organized by Department of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi

Call for Applications

Is 'the present' apriori, pregiven or predefined? One would think not. The present is constituted through a process, which determines how we arrive at it. The past, the way we evolve and the way social relations get formed makes the present what it is. However, our quotodian experience tells a very different tale. We are constantly faced with this belief that history, the constitutive processes or the idea of arriving at the present are irrelevant and a subsequent belief is forwarded that the present in which we exist is an all conclusive inevitablity, unavoidable and given as our immutable fate. This, in turn, has prompted a tendency of forsaking of the very fundamnetal principles of social sciences while establishing and even celebrating disciplines that live in the moments, non reflexive, non critical in nature. These new disciplines are constantly prodding us to agree to and abide by what is at offer without any questioning. Take for example how technology and its corollary are proferred without a moment of reflection on the ideology on which it bases itself or the historical context out of which it emerges. The idea of process and evolution as inevitable components of human existence are then intentionally ignored.

Whatever words/concepts we put in use, therefore, do not necessarily carry the same significance today as it did in the past as their very signification has undergone a change and evolved. These changes and evolutions have been effected by diverse factors, many variables, the politico-economic, cultural or even geographical imperatives. For instance, could we say the term 'revolution' as used by Karl Marx carries the same signification as when the Birla Ambani Report (arguing for privatising education) used the term? Or that the notions of 'time' during the feudal order and during the neoliberal order denote the same signification of 'time'? The phrase 'time is money' could not have rendered a meaning of import to human lives in a pre-capitalist society but today this phrase is understood most easily across the globe. The very 'time' itself tells us stories of different 'times' – the economy, politics and culture – and how those times inferred and understood certain concepts and ideas and for what reason.

The present has redefined the ideas and concepts, many a times, completely subverting the signification in many instances than what the concepts and words originally had. Ironically this subversion is not always towards challenging the hegemonic discourse but rather is the other way round – destroying the possibilitiy of an alternative to be imagined, a ploy of the hegemonic forces to usurp and coopt the transcending potential of these words and ideas for their own benefit and further their rule. The way discourses are framed and new meanings communicated to the vast mass of people and eventually as they appear to us/are presented to us, they are assumed to be the only possible meaning of the term. It is, therefore, of vast importance to understand the socio-economic and cultural processes that went/ goes into making of the processes that give us meanings. The summer school, 2018, takes on this challenge and will make an effort in this direction to unravel the history and politics of why and how epistemes are engendered.

The summer school will discuss the contested categories of time, space, wage, work, rebellion as a starting point to make sense of how our understanding transforms, how cognition is a construct that travels across time and space.

Participants: There would be twenty-six (26) participants in total for the Summer school. The participants would be selected on the basis of following rigorous selection criteria:

• The participants must apply by 20th February, 2018 with (1) one page note on their interests and (2) how the course is relevant to their ongoing work.
  
• All applications to be electronically sent at saurlssummerschool[@]gmail.com
  
• Shortlisted participants will be informed by 28th February, 2018. The shortlisted candidates will have to submit a write up of around 2500-3000 words, which also make use of/reflect on/engage with the categories and concepts of the course. While writing their piece they must follow the stylistic details provided by the organisers by 25th March, 2018. The final list of shortlisted candidates will be released by 1st week of April. The candidates will work on the same write up informed by the discussions during the course and submit the final version at the end of the course at the venue.
  
• The organisers will bear the cost of the accommodation and fooding while the participants fulfilling the above process will also be provided partial travel support.
  
• Participation is open to people from all walks of life.
  

Please contact Mr Atul Chandra at saurlssummerschool[@]gmail.com. Tel No: +91-9555434486 for further information.

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CFP - 23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14 | Leiden, The Netherlands

Call For Papers:

23rd Science and Technology Indicators conference - September 12-14, 2018. Leiden, The Netherlands.

Website: http://sti2018.cwts.nl

 

In collaboration with the European Network of Indicator Developers (ENID), the 2018 STI conference will be held during 12-14 September 2018 in Leiden (The Netherlands). This edition will have a special focus on the discussion of "indicators in transition" as a driving force for more comprehensive, broader and socially oriented forms of Science, Technology and Innovation indicators and evaluations.

 

We welcome contributions on the general topics covered by the conference as well as contributions to the special tracks.

 

• Contributions on, but not limited to, the following general topics:

 

• Altmetrics & social media (theoretical foundations, validation studies, Data sources, etc.)
• Careers in science (Gender and diversity, careers outside academia, early career researcher experience, etc.)
• Indicators of Science and Technology (responsible use of indicators, societal impact of research, systemic and behavioral effects of indicators, etc.)
• Innovation (gendered innovations, public-private interactions, industrial R&D dynamics, etc.)
• Open Science (Open access, Open data, Open science and the academic reward system, etc.)
• Research evaluation (responsible research evaluation, methods in research evaluation, case studies, etc.)
• Research integrity (policies promoting research integrity and their effects, misconducts in scientific , publishing, studies of other types of misconduct in research, etc.)

 

• Special tracks (convenors and a brief description of the special tracks can be found in http://sti2018.cwts.nl)

 

1. A closer look into corporate science and publishing
2. Challenges in establishing macro-level effects of macro-level interventions
3. Reproducibility in scientometrics
4. Research assessments as participatory explorations on content, missions, methods and indicators
5. Assessment of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – beyond indicator development
6. Studies in the sociology and history of the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities
7. Scientific and technological novelty: impact and determinants
8. Determining and steering research quality in practice: the institutional research perspective
9. Open scholarship
10. Public-private interactions in business innovation
11. Challenges of social media data for bibliometrics
12. Rethinking the research agenda on the internationalization of the scientific workforce

 

Submission types:

 

• Short paper (max 3,000 words) with a comprehensive description of a completed study
• Poster (max 1,000 words) with an abstract of the study

 

Schedule of dates and submission deadlines

 

• Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2018
• Early-bird registration: June 15 – July 15, 2018
• Conference: September 12 - 14, 2018

 

 

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STI2018 organising committee

Centre for Science & Technology Studies (CWTS)

University Leiden

PO Box 905

2300 AX LEIDEN

Visiting Address

Willem Einthoven Building

Kolffpad 1

2333 BN Leiden

The Netherlands

e. mailto:STI2018@cwts.leidenuniv.nl

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Call for Papers: 16th Globelics Conference 2018 | 24-26 October | Accra, Ghana

16th Globelics Conference 24-26 October 2018 CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI), Accra, Ghana  The Globelics International Conference 2018 The 16th Globelics Conference will be held in Accra, Ghana, hosted by the CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) at Mensvic Grand Hotel in collaboration with Africalics. Ghana is the fourth African country after South Africa, Senegal and Ethiopia to host the GLOBELICS annual Conference. This presents an opportunity to showcase Ghana, a politically stable country, which is currently undergoing a number of transformations to modernise its economy and create jobs. There is a government agenda to create an industry in every district to generate jobs and improve livelihoods especially in the rural areas. The output of the Conference is expected to contribute immensely to the options of the government in achieving this flagship project dubbed "one district one factory". The conference will combine plenary sessions, presentations of research papers in parallel tracks, thematic panel sessions, special sessions, poster presentations, symposia and exhibition on industrial research in Ghana and Africa, as well as innovative start-ups presentations, sightseeing and cultural tours. Conference Theme The main Conference theme for Globlelics 2018 is Innovation, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development: Strengthening Institutions for Greater Relevance, Effectiveness and Inclusivity. The conference invites papers addressing the role of different types of actors such as the State, local or traditional authorities, global networks, universities and research institutions, private sector, non-governmental organisations / civil society organisations and media in generating innovation, building capacity and strengthening institutions for sustainable development and inclusive growth. In particular, it aims to explore new approaches to understand innovations and institutional transformations within countries, across different economic sectors, and different operation level (macro, meso and micro), without losing sight of contextual gender disparities. The conference will also consider the need to tackle new challenges related to innovation and capacity building in addition to inclusive development in knowledge and political systems. The conference also welcomes papers studying how development policies can be implemented at different levels and across different countries to innovate out of emerging crisis of climate change, "resource curse", youth unemployment, poverty, health and gender inequalities. Conference Tracks Accepted papers will be organized around parallel paper tracks encompassing the following sub-themes: Science, technology, innovation and the sustainable development goals: Policy and Practice Agricultural innovation systems: Addressing the poverty challenge University relationships with industry, policy and society: the developmental university Intellectual property rights, open innovation and development National, regional and local innovation systems Renewable energy: innovating inclusive and resilient infrastructure Sectoral innovation systems: technology policy and catch-up Creative industries, smart cities and sustainable urban development Trade, FDI, value chains and innovation networks Entrepreneurship, youth employment and innovation management The role of innovation in overcoming the resource curse: prescriptive models for sustainable growth Innovation for Inclusive development: Indigenous knowledge, informal economy and micro and small enterprises The gender dimension of innovation and development Improving the quality of life: Sustainable healthcare, water and sanitation innovation systems Empirical methodologies, data requirements, indicators, different approaches and methodologies Paper submission We encourage scholars in the scientific institutions, universities, private enterprises and public sector institutions to take this opportunity to present their work to leading scholars in the field of innovation and development. We especially encourage young researchers to submit papers in the relevant sub-thematic tracks. Papers for oral presentations and poster presentation must be written in English, and the selected ones must be presented at the conference in English. Submission of full paper (in PDF) not exceeding 12,000 words (including notes, tables, appendices, list of references, etc.) should be made from February 26th, 2018 via the online submission form available here. Papers must be submitted no later than April 1, 2018. The selection of papers is based on a peer review process that focuses on relevance, academic quality and originality. Globelics reserves the right to use available software to control for plagiarism and to take appropriate action in such cases. Travel Support Faculty members and PhD students from developing countries with accepted papers to the conference can apply for travel support. Application for travel support must be submitted at the same time as submission of paper (not later than April 1, 2018). Further information on procedure for application of travel support is available, here. Important Dates:  Call for papers  January 19, 2018  Open for submission of papers                          February 26, 2018  Deadline for submission of papers  April 1, 2018  Acceptance notification  May 14, 2018  Deadline for application for travel support  April 1, 2018  Response to applicants for travel support  May 15, 2018  Conference registration  June 15, 2018  Conference registration deadline  July 15, 2018  Last date for upload of final version of paper  September 15, 2018 Contact Details: For further information on the conference organization please consult our website. If you have any questions that cannot be answered using the website, please send an e-mail to: info@globelicsconference2018.org Further Details

GIAN-JNIAS-CSRD organises a lecture by Ajay Agarwal on Emerging Mobility Patterns of the Millennials in North America

GAIN-JNIAS-CSRD LECTURE ON

 

Emerging Mobility Patterns of the Millennials in North America

 

JNIAS Conference Hall

February 13, 2018 | 3:00-5:00 pm

 

ABSTRACT : After several decades of persistent reliance on a personal automobile for meeting daily travel needs, there is some hope that car dependence in North America may shrink in the future.  This is in part due to the present mobility patterns of the millennials, also known as Generation Y.   In the lecture, the speaker will examine emerging travel behaviour of the millennials, and its policy implications.

 

SPEAKER
Ajay Agarwal, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Queen's University, Canada

Dr. Agarwal is a professor of urban planning and a transportation scholar.  He has researched and published on a variety of urban transportation issues in the United States and Canada.  Dr. Agarwal is visiting JNU as a recipient of GIAN fellowship in collaboration with Dr. S.K. Acharya, Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development at JNU.
 

ALL ARE WELCOME

Listen to Audio Record of CSSP Talk "Citizen Science: Stopgap Research or the Way Forward", delivered by Asani Bhaduri, DU

Centre for Studies in Science Policy

School of Social Sciences, JNU

Invited you to a Talk on

Citizen Science: Stopgap Research or the Way Forward

delivered by

Dr Asani Bhaduri (Assistant Professor, Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi)

Held on Wednesday, 7^th February 2018 at CSSP, SSS-1, JNU   

Abstract: Citizen Science (CS) projects have created more than a buzz in the past few years, especially in the world of web. Is CS the future of Science or a part of the milieu or complete waste of time? This presentation will deal with some of these aspects citing examples from different fields. A special emphasize on Citizen Science projects of India and how Social Citizen Science can emerge as a new field.

About the Speaker: Dr. Asani Bhaduri is an Assistant Professor, at the Cluster Innovation Centre, in University of Delhi. He was awarded PhD in microbiology from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) and University of Delhi in 2014. In his own words he describes himself as an "impact-free researcher, non-directional traveller, practice-skipping violinist, SLR-less photographer, discerning Omni-reader, forgetful phytologist, benign birder, penniless numismatist, philanthropic philatelist, poorest art-collector, grown-up toy-accumulator, long short(e)mail writer, contradictory agnostic, and pessimistic humanist".

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Request for Research Proposals UNU-WIDER : Tax-benefit Microsimulation Analysis

REQUEST FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS Tax-benefit microsimulation analysis    Deadline for proposal submissions is 26 February 2018 23:59 UTC+2. Go to website In order to improve the understanding of tax-benefit systems and their role in developing countries, and to increase the use of tax-benefit microsimulation models, UNU-WIDER invites proposals from qualified researchers for detailed economic analysis. Request for research proposals The specific objectives of this request for research proposals are to: Understand better the role of tax-benefit policy in developing countries regarding poverty reduction and inequality. Contribute to a better understanding of modelling behavioural effects within tax-benefit microsimulation models to inform the policy debate. Push the limits of tax-benefit microsimulation models in areas posing challenges specifically when applying tax-benefit microsimulation in a developing country context, such as the role of indirect taxes, informality, and tax evasion. Researcher(s) are free to base their analysis on the microsimulation model of their choice, including but not restricted to the microsimulation models developed under the SOUTHMOD project, which are freely accessible for non-commercial research purposes here. Proposals from individuals, groups of individuals, as well as non-profit organizations are welcome. Applications from suitably qualified early-career, female, and developing country researchers are particularly encouraged. Proposal submission The deadline for submissions is 26 February 2018. More information on the submission procedure can be found on the request for research proposals page.

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