SMART

Smart Growth America and Transportation for America are preparing to launch a new venture and we are looking for an experienced entrepreneur to join us in co-founding a startup opportunity. The new venture will create a social community for those living an urban, car-lite lifestyle by providing news, events, and local resources, an easy connection to urban goods & services and bring people together on and offline.

Candidates must have previous experience running or playing a senior role in a startup as well as have an understanding of and passion for the urban lifestyle. Experience in a startup with a significant web/mobile presence and successfully promoting brand affinity preferred. Experience with market segmentation, customer discovery and validation, taking a product through launch, and scaling to multiple cities are all core to the position. We are looking for someone to work with us to take our concept, develop a business plan, test the offerings, and help us bring it to fruition.

While we don’t expect this person to do it all, they will need to manage projects across a number of divergent disciplines including financial modeling, affinity branding, marketing, operations, mobile and web development, hiring and managing appropriate staff as well as market testing and product launches. The position is in Washington D.C.

Equal Opportunity Employment: Equal opportunity and having a diverse staff are fundamental principles at Smart Growth America. Employment and promotional opportunities are based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation/preference, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established under law.

How to Apply: Interested applicants should send their cover letter, resume, three references and business examples samples to jobs@smartgrowthamerica.org. Please include “Urban Living Entrepreneur” in the subject line. Applications will be accepted immediately on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

For the first time, ETC 2013 will include a special format for young professionals. Early career researchers and practitioners are invited to present their work to the participants of the European Transport Conference. The Young Researchers’ and Practitioners’ Forum (YRPF) is organized by young professionals. Early-stage and experimental projects and research ideas are explicitly welcome. The forum is intended to provide a format which enables constructive and comprehensive feedback as well as more time for discussion than usual.

For more information, see http://etcproceedings.org/page/open/title/Young+Researchers+and+Practitioners+Forum.

Grade 8: Salary £37,382 – £44,607 p.a.

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is the world’s leading centre for research into individual, collective and institutional behaviour on the internet. We have a multi-disciplinary faculty from political science, sociology, law, geography, economics, communications, computer science, anthropology, physics, informatics, history and development. OII researchers use a diverse methodological toolkit, and develop cutting edge methods to understand digital life, such as experiments, social network analysis and big data approaches.

We are looking for a Research Fellow to complement our multidisciplinary team. This position (which is broadly equivalent to the post of Assistant Professor in the US) offers researchers of outstanding promise or distinction an opportunity to pursue advanced research and teaching within this field. The post holder will be a key part of the research community at the OII and will have full responsibility for managing their own programme of research, publishing in leading journals and representing the Institution internationally.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced researcher with a strong methodological and theoretical background in sociology and doing empirical work with digital or social media data in the analytical sociology tradition. Applications from those with a strong track record of multi-disciplinary research on internet-mediated behaviour and/or related policy issues who have doctorates in other relevant social science disciplines (such as economics, political science, social psychology, geography or anthropology) will also be welcomed. The ideal candidate will have a strong publication record and a proven track record in successfully applying for research funding.

Based in the heart of Oxford, this post is available from July 2013 and is offered on an open-ended basis.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. The application form and further details, including a job description and selection criteria, are available on the Oxford University’s recruitment website.

The closing date for applications is 12:00 BST on Thursday 2 May 2013 and only applications received before then can be considered. Interviews for those short-listed are currently planned to take place in the week commencing Monday 20 May 2013.

For more information, see http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/newpositions/#p30.

Sociology
Salary: £31,331 to £36,298
Closing Date: Tuesday 23 April 2013
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: A689

The Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, funded by the ESRC, is seeking to appoint to an 18 month research position to work on ‘discourses of climate change’.

You must have relevant research experience in corpus linguistics and an ability to engage with research within environmental sociology.

You will pursue research on developing existing and new approaches to the use of corpus linguistics within the social sciences, in particular with discourses around climate change and energy within the UK and Brazil. A knowledge of English and Portuguese is essential.

You will join an interdisciplinary team of internationally renowned researchers within the Departments of Linguistics and English Language and Sociology. This project is supervised by Prof John Urry within the overall Centre. You will be offered excellent career progression opportunities through the ESRC Centre.

This post is likely to commence on 1 July 2013.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Tony McEnery, a.mcenery@lancaster.ac.uk.

Further information on the Sociology Department can be found at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/index.php.

To foster high-impact sustainability collaborations across the University of Michigan, the Dow Sustainability Fellows program includes a competition for applied sustainability projects that cut across disciplines and academic levels.

Project proposals for the Distinguished Awards competition must describe a compelling effort to solve a specific sustainability challenge. Winning proposals will:

• Prominently feature interdisciplinary work, blending applied science, engineering, business, behavior, and policy considerations as appropriate.
• Clearly articulate a new and innovative concept (e.g., process, policy, program, service, technology, product, etc.).
• Have the potential for significant societal benefits and sustainability impact.
• Demonstrate a well-crafted premise with convincing data and/or analysis
• Have scalable attributes and a strong chance for success.
• Be achievable within the proposed budget and include a firm commitment to implement the project, if funded.

Awards are intended to foster collaborations across university units, therefore strong preference will be given to teams with diverse composition with representation across disciplines and academic levels. Ideally, each team would consist of:

• at least one faculty advisor
• 3-6 students representing at least three distinct disciplines
• at least one U-M masters/professional degree student
• at least one U-M doctoral student or postdoctoral scholar
• at least one Dow Fellow from the masters/professional, doctoral, or postdoctoral level

Proposals are reviewed by an independent committee of U-M faculty and external practitioners from business, government, and civil society. It is envisioned that multiple project proposals in a calendar year will win Distinguished Awards. No single award will exceed $100,000 and the total of all awards granted in a given year cannot exceed $150,000. All award funds must be used for project implementation. Disbursement of funds will be staged and will be contingent upon satisfactory progress and achievement of pre-identified project milestones.

Project teams must be registered by May 1 of each calendar year, project proposals are due in mid-September and award winners are announced in November. Award winners are required to present their projects, including progress toward implementation, on the U-M campus in early April of the following year before a distinguished and diverse group of external sustainability practitioners.

For more information, see http://sustainability.umich.edu/distinguished-awards-interdisciplinary-sustainability.

To nurture future innovators and thought leaders, the Science & Engineering Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) are partnering to develop a dynamic and transformative student exchange program between premier institutions in India and the United States. The program is named in honor of Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 – 1974), a visionary Indian physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s. The class of particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics, Bosons, was named after him.

For more information, see http://www.indousstf.org/bose/scholars.htm.