Deadline: 23 November 2014
The International Social Science Council (ISSC) invites early career social scientists around the world for its World Social Science Fellows Program. The Big Data and the Quality of Life Workshop will be held from 18-20 March 2015 in Paris, France.
Around 15 leading social and natural science scholars and practitioners in ‘eScience’ and ‘cyber infrastructure’ and 5 early career social scientists will come together in the expert group meeting
The three-day workshop will prepare recommendations for different stakeholders in the big and open data world (including researchers, research funding agencies, archives, and publishers) to facilitate expanded integration across scientific disciplines to identify key issues in addressing the connectivity between big data and quality of life.
At the workshop, plans will also be made to take this work forward with one or more panels at the World Social Science Forum in Durban, SA 13-16 September 2015 and a one-week workshop at the Center for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India in 2016.
Eligibility criteria
- Applicants should be post-doctoral researcher with a maximum of five years research experience following completion of PhD.
- An early career researcher without a PhD but with an equivalent level of research experience and output can also apply.
- Applicants should not be more than 40 years of age.
- Post-doctoral researchers with 5+ years of experience & applicants above 40 are also considered if they explain why they should be eligible.
Application materials include – Curriculum vitae, an abstract of possible contribution to the expert group meeting, a statement outlining perspective on the topic, agreement from applicant’s home institution about her/his participation in the meeting. All the documents must be in English language.
For more information, please visit Big Data and the Quality of Life Call for Applications.
