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1st Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2016) – Call for Participation Doctoral researchers working on privacy, data protection, security, surveillance and ethics are invited to participate in the first Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2016) to be held from July 10-15, 2016 in Berg en Dal (The Netherlands), close to Radboud University (Nijmegen).…

Research Data Science Summer School Trieste Italy August 1-12, 2016 The CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science | (smr 2876) The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with CODATA, RDA and TWAS, is organising a short course in the data science approaches and skills that are essential for 21st century research. The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science…

Call for Student Papers: Indexing and retrieval of non-textual information “Winners will receive a Best Student Paper award and $500 cash prize” SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, April 4, 2016 FINALIST NOTIFICATION: Friday, April 15, 2016 FINALIST PRESENTATIONS: Wednesday, April 27 or Thursday, April 28, 2016 The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Arts and Humanities (SIG-AH) and…

3 PhD scholarships for 2016 The Connected Intelligence Centre at the University of Technology Sydney is currently advertising 3 PhD scholarships for 2016 on the following topics/themes: * Learning Analytics, Agency and Algorithmic Accountability * Learning Analytics for Student Writing Practices * Learning Analytics Across Digital and Physical Spaces http://utscic.edu.au/research/phd CIC?s mission is to invent,…

EPSRC PhD scholarships within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester Expressions of interest are sought from UK/EU students for EPSRC PhD scholarships within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester; tenable within the University’s Centre for Development Informatics. ICT4D topics within priority areas of relevance could include: Digital enterprises and business…

Two funded PhDs at the Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen’s Two Scholarships at the PhD level (starting September 2016) are available in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University to work on a project, funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant on “Big Data Surveillance” under the supervision of David Lyon and/or David Murakami Wood. The…

CfP Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA), 13-17 June 2016, Zadar, Croatia Authors are invited to submit paper abstracts (up to 1500 words); poster, panel, demonstration, workshop, dissertation (PhD forum) and student showcase abstracts (up to 750 words) to the conference Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA) which will be held at the University of…

Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging – Open Positions PhD and PostDoc There are 3 Phd positions available and one Postdoc position available within the project “Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging”(CONNECTINGEUROPE). This project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the…

altmetrics15: 5 years in, what do we know? Call for contributions: altmetrics15 workshop   Altmetrics intend to measure impact of scholars and scholarly documents not captured by traditional bibliometrics, which are usually restricted to counting peer-reviewed journal articles and citations within them. Five years after the publication of the altmetrics manifesto, it seems time to take stock…

BOBCATSSS – LYON 2016  Call for Papers BOBCATSSS: January 27-29, 2016 Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2015 BOBCATSSS 2016 explores the main theme of Information, Libraries, and Democracy through several key topics: The Role of Libraries in Democratic Cultures, Intellectual Freedom and Censorship, Libraries, Open Access and Open Data, and Protecting Privacy. We welcome your contribution! The…