Digital Ethnography Research Centre

10/01/2026

27/05/2025

Check out this fabulous postdoc opportunity in Maastricht working with the lovely and brilliant Prof Anna Harris.

Post-Doc in Making and Design in Hospitals

14/02/2025

10/10/2024

FYI check out this PhD position in Artificial Intelligence for Clean Energy and Sustainability at Monash University. A great opportunity to work with former DERC director Sarah Pink and energy expert Yolande Strengers!

Remuneration: The successful applicant will receive a Research Living Allowance, at current value of $41,650 AUD per annum for PhD, plus $5000 pa x 3 years training allowance and $5000 for travel

27/06/2024

Register now for the 12th New Materialisms conference at Maynooth, organised by DERC affiliate Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody

New Materialisms Conference is coming!
Online conference attendance is available, you are welcome to attend via teams. A link will be emailed to you upon registration. You can register here: https://intersectionalhuma.wixsite.com/newmaterialisms

26/06/2024

FYI everyone, my anthropology colleague Anna Harris has recently published an advert for a wonderful new PhD position at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands:
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/342646/phd-in-anthropology-of-medicine/

It’s an exciting position that may be of interest to soon-to-be or recently graduated Masters students you know with an interest in topics such as medicine, hospitals, sustainability, circularity, making, degrowth, global supply chains, waste and/or global knowledge exchange.

Deadline is: August 21st 2024
Queries: Ludovica Pagliara at [email protected]

Are you interested in doing a PhD in an interdisciplinary team environment? Are you curious and creative? Do you want to live in a beautiful city in Europe while having the opportunity to do in-depth ethnographic fieldwork abroad? Job Description The...

14/06/2024

🌟✨News Flash!🌟✨

For the last 12 months we have been involved in detailed discussions about a number of ways forward for our micro-cred. We are delighted to announce that we’ve arrived at a point where we’re about to begin a co-design process, working towards having ‘proof of concept’ of a model by mid 2025.

Our cred will be awarded through an in-person workshop and will be co-produced with Clock Your Skills.

Clock Your Skills are a UK/EU based company that is building a significant presence in Australia. Clock’s vision is to ‘make invisible skills visible and valued’, cultivating a culture of recognition and appreciation for the diverse skills each individual brings to the table. Their mission is to: ‘elevate a globally diverse workforce by transcending traditional industry boundaries … empowering individuals, particularly those underserved by formal education, with a pathway to recognition and accredited qualifications.’ Clock have worked with Creative Victoria, Big Sound and RMIT on recognising creative skills.

We are excited to be working with a company that is philosophically aligned with our project, and with the frameworks to build our micro-cred badges and curriculum. This next stage of the work will depend on our industry partners’ involvement and feedback in a co-design process. In the meantime, if you have any questions or would like to talk more about these project updates please do reach out to us.

We are committed to creating a micro-cred model that signals the skills learned through participation in youth arts and that will provide a wider contribution to the sector over time. Creative Australia Deakin University RMIT University THE PUSH

31/05/2024

New from one of the ARC projects based in DERC.

I grew up in theatres, painting scenes on floors, sewing costumes, rehearsing cues. At the time, I felt that I was eccentric, but retrospectively I realise how much I learnt during these long hours of unpaid labour. In an era where the rapid pace of technological advancement and globalisation demand

25/04/2024

DERC's Professor Tania Lewis kicked off Professor Annette Markham's new digital ethnography seminar series at the University of Utrecht earlier this week with a conversation on mixing up methods in the field. Watch this space for other DERC participants in this exciting new series!

22 April 2024 | Utrecht University (Hybrid) Digital ethnography is a broad approach, covering many types of inquiry. If we begin with the premise that digital ethnography is situated at the nexus of lived experience and digital transformations, and we take qualitative social sciences in anthropology...