Over the last six weeks, I’ve posted various opportunities for students, academics, and other scholars that I’m co-directing/hosting, many of which have deadlines looming. I want to summarize them in one post for those who either missed them or wanted some synthesis:
Microsoft Research Postdocs.
- Who: Newly minted/about-to-be-minted PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective
- Deadline: December 12, 2011
- More Information
Special issue of JOBEM on Socially-Mediated Publicness.
- Who: Scholars who want to publish their work on socially-mediated publicness in a fantastic journal experimenting with open-access
- Deadline: December 12, 2011 for brief abstracts; January 6, 2012 for complete articles
- More Information
Digital Media & Learning Summer Institute.
- Who: Graduate students/young postdocs doing work touching on policy and innovation around digital media & learning
- Deadline: January 9, 2012
- Application & More Info
Microsoft Research PhD Internships.
- Who: Current PhD students working on social media topics from a social science perspective
- Deadline: January 10, 2012
- More Information
Human Trafficking & Technology Research Grants.
- Who: Scholars who can research the role of tech in different facets of human trafficking
- Deadline: February 17, 2012
- Request for Proposals
Please check out this opportunities and make sure that the right people you know hear about them.
Given how many amazing opportunities I had as a graduate student and young scholar, I’m really excited to be able to give back to others. Thanks to all of my collaborators and the institutions that support us in being able to create exciting spaces for scholars to flourish.