Description

Facts

ID: 119217

Num. of employees:

8000

Site:

Dresden (Saxony, Germany)

Type:

Research Assistant

Doctoral Researcher

Duration:

Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024

Part-/Full-time:

The position comprises 50 % of the fulltime weekly hours, It is intended to extend the position by 15 % of the fulltime weekly hours

Starting date (earliest):

01/04/22

Remuneration:

(subject to personal qualification employees are remunerated according to salary group E 13 TV-L)

Scope:

Humanities and Social Sciences

Research

Social Sciences

Urban Planning

Field of studies:

Humanities and Social Sciences

Sociology

Urban Planning

Working language:

German

English

Language skills:

English (excellent knowledge of language)

External link:

https: // tu-dresden.de/gsw/forschung/projekte/tudisc?set/ ...

Rese­arch Asso­ciate / PhD Stu­dent

English

(sub­ject to per­so­nal qua­li­fi­ca­tion employees are remu­ne­ra­ted

accord­ing to salary group E 13 TV-L)

At TU Dres­den, School of Huma­nities and Social Sci­en­ces, the Dis­rup­tion and Socie­tal Change Cen­ter (TUDiSC) offers a posi­tion star­ting April 1, 2022. The posi­tion com­pri­ses 50 % of the full­time wee­kly hours in the pro­ject Pro­jekt „The Dis­rup­ti­vity of the Others in Trans­for­ma­ti­ons“ (.DOT). The posi­tion is limi­ted until Sep­tem­ber 30, 2024. It is inten­ded to extend the posi­tion by 15 % of the full­time wee­kly hours by means of the Leib­niz-Insti­tut für öko­lo­gi­sche Raum­ent­wick­lung e.V. (IÖR). An exten­sion of the posi­tion until Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025 may be con­si­de­red if the inter­me­diate eva­lua­tion is posi­tive and if the per­so­nal requi­re­ments accord­ing to WissZeitVG are met. The period of employ­ment is gover­ned by the Fixed Term Rese­arch Con­tracts Act (Wis­sen­schafts­zeit­ver­trags­ge­setz - WissZeitVG). The posi­tion aims at obtai­ning fur­ther aca­de­mic qua­li­fi­ca­tion (e.g. PhD).

The pro­ject .DOT is part of the initia­tive "Dis­rup­tion and Socie­tal Change” (TUDiSC) is part of the endea­vor "Streng­t­he­ning rese­arch areas with great poten­tial" in the EXU focus PRO­FILE. It is inten­ded to con­tri­bute to achie­ving sci­en­ti­fic excel­lence and inter­na­tio­nal visi­bi­lity in all five Rese­arch Prio­rity Areas of TUD, espe­ci­ally in the Emer­ging Field “Socie­tal Change”, and thus aims to advance the uni­ver­sity as a whole to a high level. In joint inter­di­sci­pli­nary work, the goal is to ele­vate dis­rup­tion to a basic cate­gory of rese­arch into socie­tal change and to record its pre­con­di­ti­ons, logics and effects more tho­roughly by pur­suing rese­arch into its foun­da­ti­ons as well as into its pos­si­ble app­li­ca­ti­ons. To the extent that this brings into focus the poli­ti­cal, eco­no­mic, social and cul­tu­ral chal­len­ges that socie­ties face in dealing with dis­rup­ti­ons, TUDiSC is ori­en­ted toward the social sci­en­ces, the huma­nities and cul­tu­ral stu­dies, but it necessa­rily inclu­des the exper­tise of natu­ral, tech­ni­cal and life sci­en­ces in addres­sing these issues. More infor­ma­tion on the con­cep­tual basis for TUDiSC: https: // tu- dresden.de/gsw/ressourcen/dateien/tudisc/TUDiSCConceptualBasis.pdf?lang=en

Working field:

The adver­ti­sed posi­tion is assi­gned to the per­spec­tive of urban- and trans­for­ma­tion rese­arch and inclu­des the ela­bo­ra­tion and imple­men­ta­tion of the work package on “Actors and Insti­tu­ti­ons”, which is led by the IOER. The aim is to ana­lyze the spe­ci­fic influ­ence of out­si­ders, their values and logic of action as well as roles and inter­ac­tion pat­terns, on the dyna­mics and deve­lop­ment direc­tion of urban trans­for­ma­tion pro­ces­ses. Selec­ted prac­ti­cal cases are to be exami­ned com­pa­ra­tively using qua­li­ta­tive methods (e.g. inter­views, par­ti­ci­pant obser­va­tions and con­tent ana­ly­sis). Based on the results, impli­ca­ti­ons for trans­for­ma­tion rese­arch as well as for policy and inter­ven­tion approa­ches are to be for­mu­la­ted. The posi­tion also sup­ports coor­di­na­tion with the coope­ra­tion part­ners at TU Dres­den.

Requirements:

an above-average uni­ver­sity degree in a rele­vant social sci­ence field or inter­di­sci­pli­nary field with a high share of social sci­en­ces,

very good know­ledge of trans­for­ma­tion rese­arch and gover­nance rese­arch,

good know­ledge of sustainable urban deve­lop­ment and spa­tial sci­ence,

in-depth know­ledge of the methods of empi­ri­cal social rese­arch,

very good writ­ten and spo­ken Eng­lish skills (at least CEFR level C1),

very good com­mu­ni­ca­tion and team­work skills, resi­li­ence and fle­xi­bi­lity as well as a pre­cise, reli­able and inde­pen­dent working method with a high level of com­mit­ment.

Expe­ri­ence in inter- and trans­di­sci­pli­nary team­work is an advan­tage.

What we offer:

Pro­ject frame­work: Dis­rup­ti­ons are decisive for an acce­le­ra­ted socie­tal sustai­na­bi­lity trans­for­ma­tion. Howe­ver, their emer­gence, cha­rac­te­ris­tics and effects are signi­fi­cantly cor­re­la­ted to the role of out­si­ders. The pro­ject .DOT the­re­fore aims to deve­lop a com­pre­hen­sive under­stan­ding of the rela­ti­ons­hip bet­ween out­si­ders and dis­rup­ti­ons as well as their impact on trans­for­ma­ti­ons. It deve­lops new basic know­ledge to enable the use of the trans­for­ma­tive poten­tial of out­si­ders for achie­ving socie­tal goals, as well as to pre­vent their pos­si­ble mar­gi­na­li­za­tion, radi­ca­li­za­tion or obst­ruc­tive effects. The rese­arch approach is inter­di­sci­pli­nary and com­bi­nes con­cepts from phi­lo­so­phy, psy­cho­logy as well as urban- and trans­for­ma­tion rese­arch.

If you have any ques­ti­ons, please con­tact Dr. Andrea Wen­de­baum (a.wendebaum@ioer.de).

The TU Dres­den is a Ger­man uni­ver­sity of excel­lence and offers you a lively rese­arch envi­ron­ment.

How to apply:

App­li­ca­ti­ons from women are par­ti­cu­larly wel­come. The same app­lies to people with disa­bi­li­ties.

Please sub­mit your com­pre­hen­sive app­li­ca­tion inclu­ding the usual docu­ments (max. 2-page let­ter of moti­va­tion, cur­ri­cu­lum vitae, copies of cer­ti­fi­ca­tes, men­tion of a refe­rence, anony­mi­zed wri­ting sam­ple, max. 5000 words in Ger­man or Eng­lish, an anony­mi­zed pro­ject pro­po­sal, max. 2 pages) by Febru­ary 2, 2022 (stam­ped arri­val date of the uni­ver­sity cen­tral mail ser­vice app­lies) with the Job ID “TUDISC” by mail to: TU Dres­den, Fakul­tät Umwelt­wis­sen­schaf­ten, Pro­fes­sur für Raum­ent­wick­lung und Trans­for­ma­tion, Herrn Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wolf­ram, Helm­holtz­str. 10, 01069 Dres­den, Ger­many or via the TU Dres­den Secu­re­Mail Por­tal https: // securemail.tu-dresden.de by sen­ding it as a sin­gle pdf-docu­ment to katrin.kindermann@tu-dresden.de. Please sub­mit copies only, as your app­li­ca­tion will not be retur­ned to you. Expen­ses incur­red in atten­ding inter­views can­not be reim­bur­sed.

Refe­rence to data pro­tec­tion: Your data pro­tec­tion rights, the pur­pose for which your data will be pro­ces­sed, as well as fur­ther infor­ma­tion about data pro­tec­tion is avail­able to you on the web­site: https: // tu- dresden.de/karriere/datenschutzhinweis

Make an Application

Closing date:

10/02/22

Reference number:

TUDISC

Contact person:

Dr. Andrea Wendebaum (a.wendebaum@ioer.de)

By mail:

TU Dresden, Fakultät Umweltwissenschaften, Professur für Raumentwicklung und Transformation, Herrn Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Wolfram, Helmholtzstr. 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany

By e-mail:

katrin.kindermann@tu-dresden.de

Application papers:

max. 2-page letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, mention of a reference, anonymized writing sample, max. 5000 words in German or English, an anonymized project proposal, max. 2 pages