Digital Narratives Studio: Junior Research Fellowship

Digital Narratives Studio: Junior Research Fellowship

The Digital Narratives Studio, invites applications for the 2nd cohort of up to 4 Junior Research Fellows for the academic year 2024-2025. The theme for this year’s cohort is digital care making.

Working with multiple stakeholders, in Asia, Europe and North America, the Digital Narratives Studio is invested in examining the practice, materiality, challenges, theories, and transmission of digital care. We are examining how digital care can be theorized, studied, built, prototyped, manifested, and taught across different communities and stakeholders. The question of digital care particularly thinks about communicative, media, and technological practices and the role and function of care in our societies.

The fellowship builds on the Global Care Lab experiments initiated at the DNS, and invites young researchers to engage with and unpack different ways by which digital care needs to be operationalized and understood in our everyday practices.

The Junior Research Fellowship offers:

• A mentored opportunity to develop your research ideas through the Digital Narratives Studio platform
• A research budget of up to 10,000 HKD to facilitate research outreach, amplification, and development
• A community of scholarship and practice collaborating with global scholars and researchers
• Resources to develop and publish for different venues
• Resources to build communities and networks of outreach
• Opportunity to gain teaching experience by designing classes, workshops, or curriculum from the Fellows’ research

You can be a Junior Research Fellow if:

• You are enrolled in a research post-graduate programme at a recognized university and reside in Hong Kong for the duration of the Academic Year
• You have a research idea that corresponds with the theme of digital care in any disciplinary context
• You are interested in expanding your research through a collaborative practice of working with interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners
• You want to experiment with different forms of public academic writing, translated towards social actors
• You are looking to develop your experience in teaching, outreach, and community building

The Junior Research Fellows are expected to:

• Write one academic blog entry every month, translating their evolving research practice and documenting it towards different communities
• Participate in in-person meetings every 6 weeks, to read, respond, and develop ideas for their collective research practice
• Take initiative to propose and experiment new modes of thinking and writing about their research interest
• Make at least 1 public presentation about their work during the tenure of the fellowship
• Propose a small event or outreach programme and execute it for developing their research practice
• Support the DNS events by helping with logistics, communication, and outreach

If you are interested, you can apply with:

• A 2-page CV
• A research statement (max 500 words) explaining your research area and how it connects with the theme of Digital Care Making
• A personal statement (max 500 words) talking about your motivation for applying and how you think this fellowship will benefit you.

The applications must be sent by the 20th September to com-dns@cuhk.edu.hk

Short-listed applicants will be invited for an online interview. The Fellowship will start from 1st October 2024 and continue till 1st September 2025.