[Jobs] Postdoc - UCLA - Inst for Society & Genetics

[Leora Lawton]

*Postdoctoral Fellowship on a Project about Responding to Crises in Science
with New Models of Practice and Organization.* Application review begins
March 15, 2018. The Institute for Society and Genetics (ISG) at the
University of California at Los Angeles (www.socgen.ucla.edu), invites
applications for a postdoctoral fellow position beginning July 1, 2018.
The Institute for Society and Genetics, housed in the Division of Life
Sciences at UCLA, is an interdisciplinary research and teaching
unit focused on issues at the intersection of biology and society.  The
successful candidate will work with Drs. Aaron Panofsky and Christopher
Kelty on an NSF funded project (Grant # 1734683) about the dynamics and
implications of recent projects, organizations, and reforms seeking to
improve the robustness and reliability of biomedical and behavioral science
by tracing examples of contemporary controversies surrounding, for example,
the reproducibility crisis, post-publication peer review, “predatory”
publishing. The postdoctoral fellow will support the PIs by conducting
interviews and participant observation, collection and management of
textual materials, the management of student researchers, data analysis,
and write up of results.



Applicants with experience and interest in the fields of sociology and
anthropology of science and science studies as well as skills in
qualitative methodologies, literacy with quantitative methods, as well as
strong organizational and interpersonal skills are invited to apply.



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