I’m excited to announce that I will be co-supervising up to four very generous and well-supported PhD scholarships at the University of New South Wales (Sydney) on the themes of “Living with Pervasive Media Technologies from Drones to Smart Homes” and “Data Justice: Technology, policy and community impact”. Please contact me directly if you have any questions. Expressions of Interest are due before 20 July, 2017 at the following link: https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/data-justice. Many thanks! Best, Heather. --------------------------- Dr Heather Ford Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Media<https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/>, University of New South Wales w: hblog.org<http://hblog.org/> / EthnographyMatters.net<http://ethnographymatters.net/> / t: @hfordsa<http://www.twitter.com/hfordsa> University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) Scientia PhD scholarships for 2019 Living with Pervasive Media Technologies from Drones to Smart Homes https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/living-pervasiv... Digital assistants, smart devices, drones and other autonomous and artificial intelligence technologies are rapidly changing work, culture, cities and even the intimate spaces of the home. They are 21st century media forms: recording, representing and acting, often in real-time. This project investigates the impact of living with autonomous and intelligent media technologies. It explores the changing situation of media and communication studies in this expanded field. How do these media technologies refigure relations between people and the world? What policy challenges do they present? How do they include and exclude marginalized peoples? How are they transforming media and communications themselves? (Supervisory team: Michael Richardson, Andrew Murphie, Heather Ford) Data Justice: Technology, policy and community impact https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/scientia-phd-scholarships/data-justice-te... With growing concerns that data mining, ubiquitous surveillance and automated decision making can unfairly disadvantage already marginalised groups, this research aims to identify policy areas where injustices are caused by data- or algorithm-driven decisions, examine the assumptions underlying these technologies, document the lived experiences of those who are affected, and explore innovative ways to prevent such injustices. Innovative qualitative and digital methods will be used to identify connections across community, policy and technology perspectives on ‘big data’. The project is expected to deepen social engagement with disadvantaged communities, and strengthen global impact in promoting social justice in a datafied world. (Supervisory team: Tanja Dreher, Heather Ford, Janet Chan) Further details on the UNSW Scientia Scholarship scheme are available here: https://www.2025.unsw.edu.au/apply/?interest=scholarships https://research.unsw.edu.au/unsw-scientia-phd-scholarship-scheme