National University of Singapore

Information & Communications Management Programme

Faculty Openings in Social Implications of IT; Information Studies; Human-Computer Interaction. The Information & Communications Management Programme in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore seeks two or more open-rank faculty members in the social, political, cultural, and ethical implications of IT. We are looking for a candidate in human computer interaction and IT content design areas as well. The successful candidates will be expected to help develop curriculum, teach graduate and undergraduate courses, and give new research directions to this relatively new programme at NUS.

Areas of interest include, contexts of computers and information use; internet studies; ethics and intellectual property rights; connectivity and digital divide; users and identities; gendered aspects of IT; IT and organizations; political implications of IT; information management; surveillance and privacy; cross-national comparisons of IT development; innovations systems and IT; bio-informatics; history of IT; social and cultural aspects of IT design; cultural and critical studies of information society; and social studies of information science and technology.

Candidates with expertise in one or more of these areas should submit: (1) a letter of application describing their teaching and research interests; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) sample written work and syllabus (for junior level appointments); and, three letters of recommendation. PhD is required. Appointments will be on a tenure-track basis, and in exceptional cases tenure will be granted on appointment. Salary and benefits are competitive. Please send application materials to:

Govindan Parayil
Chair, Search Committee
Information & Communications Management Programme
FASS, AS3 #04-16
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117570
Tel: (65) 874-6320
Fax: (65) 779-4911
E-mail: icmgp@nus.edu.sg.

For further information, consult the web page at http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/icm. Applications must be received by 15 November 2001.

Govindan Parayil will be in Cambridge, MA from October 31 to November 3 to attend the annual meetings of the Society for the Social Studies of Science. Those interested in meeting to discuss their interests in a position please contact him immediately at icmgp@nus.edu.sg.