Interested in the Intersections of Science and Justice?

Want to Develop Responsible Collaborative Research and Public Events?

Science & Justice seeks a graduate student researcher who:

• has successfully completed the Science & Justice Training Program;
• is able to attend SJWG meetings typically on Wednesday’s from 4-6PM and create rapporteur reports;
• actively participates in building science and justice research and has an interest in mentoring others on research projects;
• is interested in helping to develop Science and Justice curriculum;
• and can translate trending news items that integrate components of real world applications with science and justice concerns into blog pieces that are posted on the S&J website and shared on social media.

The Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) is offered a 50% appointment.

To Apply: submit materials to scijust@ucsc.edu 

By: Friday, July 15, 2022 12noon

Applicants should email their CV and a 1-2 page application that presents:

• what experiences they have that would make them good for this position;
• their interests in the Center’s research and how their work/research/career goals would benefit from the position;
• their ideas about cross-divisional and interdisciplinary collaborations, especially among humanists, engineers, natural scientists, artists and social scientists as well as ones that are community/academia partnerships;
• and what ideas they would bring to S&J.

Key Items for 2022-2023

RESEARCH PROJECTS – Assist in Science & Justice research projects (for example: LEED, Building Diversity, Theorizing Race After Race); assist with developing and maintaining collaborations among humanists, engineers, natural scientists, artists and social scientists as well as community/academia partnerships at all scholarly levels. Help to engage undergraduates in faculty led collaborative projects. Help prepare partnership grant proposals.

CURRICULUM – Assist with developing undergraduate curriculum including a minor and linkages between the social sciences, African Diaspora Studies, history, politics, and genomic science to better understand questions of diversity.

Fall/Winter/Spring Programming – Work with a planning committee on Science & Justice programming.

General Scope – In consultation with the Center Manager and Director(s), the GSR will assist to implement Center programming and research. Correspond with Project Leaders on the development of research projects and help oversee undergraduate student researchers. Responsibilities may include: organizing, planning, and co-facilitating groups; training and coordinating teams of undergraduate researchers who may also be co-facilitating groups and assist with documentation, interviews, transcription and data analysis; fostering collaboration and teamwork among researchers; reviewing research relevant to Center themes and areas of inquiry; creating infographics, outreach materials, and reports and articles based on findings or events; develop and contribute to Center communication channels (ie: blog posts, news articles) for sharing research findings on campus and to the broader public; and participating in core SJRC activities and happenings.

The Department of History at UC Santa Cruz is recruiting two PhD students to begin in the fall of 2022 to pursue research on the histories of science, medicine, and/or the environment in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, East Asia, or indigenous communities across the globe. Applicants may – but need not be – from the geographies that fall within the broad category of the Global South as long as their research agenda is focused on the geographies described.

UCSC is known for its reputation as a center for the study of science (e.g. feminist science studies, multispecies studies, the study of race and genomics). The successful applicant will become part of an interdisciplinary community of scholars whose work focuses on questions of science, medicine, and the environment. In pursuing a research agenda situated in the Global South, they will have the opportunity to join researchers across the university and to participate in various transdisciplinary forums that include the Science and Justice Research group, the Center for Cultural Studies, the program in Global and Community Health, the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, and events sponsored by the Departments of Politics, Sociology, History of Consciousness, Feminist Studies, Anthropology, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. In addition to university support, successful applicants will receive funding for language training and research from a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation on the theme of “The History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns,” whose Principal Investigator is Jennifer L. Derr (History).

Further information about the history department’s graduate program can be found on their web page (https://history.ucsc.edu/graduate/index.html).

Please contact Jennifer L. Derr (jderr@ucsc.edu) or the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of History, Cindy Morris (morrisc@ucsc.edu) with any questions regarding applying or the graduate program.

Applications must be submitted no later than December 11, 2021.

Interested in the Intersections of Science and Justice?

Want to Develop Responsible Collaborative Research and Public Events?

Science & Justice seeks a graduate student researcher who:

• has successfully completed the Science & Justice Training Program;
• is able to attend SJWG meetings typically on Wednesday’s from 4-6PM and create rapporteur reports;
• actively participates in building science and justice research and has an interest in mentoring others on research projects;
• is interested in facilitating Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) trainings or workshops; and
• can translate trending news items that integrate components of real world applications with science and justice concerns into blog pieces that are posted on the S&J website and shared on social media.

The Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) is offered a 50% appointment.

To Apply: submit materials to scijust@ucsc.edu 

BY: Monday, July 26, 2021 12noon

Applicants should email their CV and a 1-2 page application that presents:

• what experiences they have that would make them good for this position;
• their interests in the Center’s research and how their work/research/career goals would benefit from the position;
• their ideas about cross-divisional and interdisciplinary collaborations, especially among humanists, engineers, natural scientists, artists and social scientists as well as ones that are community/academia partnerships;
• and what ideas they would bring to S&J.

Key Items for 2021-2022

Research Projects – Assist in Science & Justice research projects (for example: Just Biomedicine, Incarcerated Care, Theorizing Race After Race); assist with developing and maintaining collaborations among humanists, engineers, natural scientists, artists and social scientists as well as community/academia partnerships at all scholarly levels. Help to engage undergraduates in faculty led collaborative projects.

CURRICULUM – Assist with developing undergraduate curriculum including a minor and linkages between the social sciences, African Diaspora Studies, history, politics, and genomic science to better understand questions of diversity.

Fall/Winter/Spring Programming – Work with a planning committee on Science & Justice programming.

General Scope – In consultation with the Center Manager and Director(s), the GSR will assist to implement Center programming and research. Correspond with Project Leaders on the development of research projects and help oversee undergraduate student researchers. Responsibilities may include: organizing, planning, and co-facilitating groups; training and coordinating teams of undergraduate researchers who may also be co-facilitating groups and assist with documentation, interviews, transcription and data analysis; fostering collaboration and teamwork among researchers; reviewing research relevant to Center themes and areas of inquiry; creating infographics, outreach materials, and reports and articles based on findings or events; develop and contribute to Center communication channels (ie: blog posts, news articles) for sharing research findings on campus and to the broader public; and participating in core SJRC activities and happenings.

The Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz is recruiting the first in a series of PhD students to begin in the fall of 2021 to pursue research on the history of science, the history of medicine, and/or environmental history in the Global South. Applicants may specialize in the study of the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, East Asia, or indigenous communities across the globe.

The online application is available beginning October 1st (unless otherwise noted), and closes at 8:59 pm PST on December 10th.

UCSC is known for its reputation as a center for the study of science (e.g. feminist science studies, multispecies studies, the study of race and genomics). The successful applicant will become part of an interdisciplinary community of scholars whose work is focused on questions of science, medicine, and the environment.

In pursuing a research agenda situated in the Global South, they will have the opportunity to join researchers across the university and to participate in various transdisciplinary forums that include the Science & Justice Research Center, the Center for Cultural Studies, the program in Global Community Health, the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, and events sponsored by the Departments of Politics, Sociology, History of Consciousness, Feminist Studies, Anthropology, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.

In addition to university support, the successful applicant will receive funding for language training and research from a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation on the theme of “The History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns,” whose Principal Investigator is Jennifer L. Derr (History).

Further information about the history department’s graduate program can be found on their web page (https://history.ucsc.edu/graduate/phd-program/index.html). Please contact Jennifer L. Derr (jderr@ucsc.edu) or the Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of History, Cindy Morris (morrisc@ucsc.edu), with questions regarding applying or the graduate program.