Please circulate to potential candidates. *Four year doctoral project: The geography and political economy of software production* Funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award to Prof. Rob Kitchin, we are seeking a doctoral student to work on /The Programmable City/ project. The project will be based in the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. The production of software, like any industry, has a particular space economy to its creation and circulation. Its operations are organised and structured both sectorally and spatially to enable efficient production, and minimise costs and maximise profit. At a macro-level there is a geography of software development, so that whilst software creation takes place across the world, it is concentrated in key sites, for example, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Boston, and Ireland, where there is an agglomeration of skilled labour, entrepreneurship, technologies, venture capital, and local tax and development regimes. At these sites, software is the product of a complex interplay of social, political and economic processes operating within and across scales. For other kinds of software production, such as open source projects, development is often more dispersed and distributed. This project will provide a detailed analysis of the geography and political economy of software development, with a particular focus on Boston and Dublin. It will involve case study research and interviews with company managers and agencies and organisations that seek to facilitate inward investment and indigenous start-ups (development agencies, business incubators, venture capitalists, etc). *Stipend **:* *EUR16,000 p.a, plus fees* The stipend is projected to increment by 8% per annum. The post is expected to commence 1^st September 2013, subject to receipt of approved funding. Closing date: midnight, Friday 14th June 2013 Further details on the post and application process: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGQ309/doctoral-student/ or http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/news/documents/Programmable_Booklet%20PhD.pdf -- Prof. Rob Kitchin Director, National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland Tel: +353 1 708 3372, Fax: +353 1 708 6456,[log in to unmask] <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?LOGON=A3%3Dind1305%26L%3DCRIT-GEOG-FORUM%26E%3D7bit%26P%3D1942239%26B%3D--------------030405090501030402050408%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D> http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/people/admin/kitchin.shtml t: @robkitchin, b:http://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/ --