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**15 fully funded PhD positions with DCODE in Europe**

_OFFER DESCRIPTION_

We are pleased to announce the opening of 15 PhDs to rethink design and its role in the digital transformation of society within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network DCODE (Fundamentals of Design Competence for Our Digital Future). We are looking for backgrounds in design, anthropology, media studies, science and technology studies, design informatics, human-data/AI interaction, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. An overview and application links to all PhD positions can be found at: www.dcode-network.eu

_Key dates_

- Opening job applications: January 8, 2021
- Application deadline: February 14, 2021 (ESR2-ESR15); March 15, 2021 (ESR1)
- PhD start date: June 1, 2021 (or as close to this date as possible)

_Work locations_

- 3 positions available at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- 3 positions available at Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden
- 3 positions available at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- 2 positions available at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1 position available at Aarhus University, Denmark
- 1 position available at Transport and Telecommunication Institute, Latvia
- 1 position available at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
- 1 position available at Philips Design, The Netherlands

DCODE brings together a European consortium of world-class universities and design institutes with partners from industry, government and civil society from seven countries (Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, Denmark, Latvia, Italy and Poland), including among others RISE Research Institute of Sweden, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Advanced Care Research Center and Centrum Cyfrowe.

Signature of DCODE is the idea of prototeams. Teams of PhDs with different disciplinary backgrounds will be iteratively deployed in real-world settings to develop and prototype future design roles and practices, including the scientific knowledge needed to support them. Doctoral researchers will carry out their PhD in contexts that cut across private and public sectors, and connect domains such as urban mobility, energy sharing, health and care, insurance, banking and digital ethics in creating design-led ecosystems.

DCODE is a pioneering PhD training programme, which aims to develop future researchers and leaders capable of anticipating and guiding the digital transformation of society towards inclusive and sustainable futures. DCODE positions agency as foundational to digital design today, just like function was critical to industrial design. This new foundation will require the holistic integration of five key research challenges identified in both engineering and the social sciences:
- WP 1: Anthropological study and principled engineering of human-algorithm relations.
- WP 2: Design of trusted interactions with and across decentralised systems.
- WP 3: Inclusive approaches to value creation in data-driven socio-economic models.
- WP 4: Digital sovereignty and democratic governance of data flows across decentralised systems.
- WP 5: Future design practices upholding anticipatory, deliberative and responsible innovation approaches.

PhDs will be supervised by multidisciplinary teams cutting across the different organisations. The main supervisor will be located at the recruiting organisation. A programme of training will be provided including core research skills, design research methods, public engagement and communication, participatory leadership, responsible innovation, digital inclusion and literacy, gendered perspectives, and policy issues around data and artificial intelligence.

_List of available PhD positions_

The application and selection process might differ per organisation. For inquiries, please write an email with subject DCODE ESR# to the first supervisor listed next to the position. To review the vacancy text and submit your application, go to: www.dcode-network.eu

INCLUSIVE DIGITAL FUTURES (WP1)
- ESR 1: Design anthropology for sustainable human-machine relations (University of Aarhus, Department for Digital Design and Information Studies, Denmark). Supervisory team: Dr. Rachel Charlotte Smith (rsmith@cc.au.dk), Prof. Elisa Giaccardi, Dr. Daria Loi.
- ESR 2: Design and engineering methods for principled development of data, models and behaviours (Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Netherlands). Supervisory team: Dr. Dave Murray-Rust (d.s.murray-rust@tudelft.nl), Prof. Alessandro Bozzon, Prof. Irina Jackiva.
- ESR 3: Machine learning methods for sustainable design futures (Transport and Telecommunications Institute, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Research Cluster, Latvia). Supervisory team: Dr. Neil Rubens (neil@hrstc.org), Dr. Nazli Cila, Prof. Somaya Ben Allouch.

TRUSTED INTERACTIONS (WP2)
- ESR 4: Designing for multi- intentional interaction (Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Netherlands). Supervisory team: Prof. Elisa Giaccardi (e.giaccardi@tudelft.nl), Dr. Dave Murray-Rust, Prof. Johan Redström.
- ESR 5: Designing co-predictive relations (Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Netherlands). Supervisory team: Dr. Roy Bendor (r.bendor@tudelft.nl), Prof. Elisa Giaccardi, Prof. Johan Redström.
- ESR 6: Designing for contestable systems (Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden). Supervisory team: Prof. Johan Redström (johan.redstrom@umu.se), Dr. Marco Rozendaal, Prof. Elisa Giaccardi.
- ESR 7: Designing for trusted collaboration in human-AI teams (Philips, Design Innovation, Netherlands). Supervisory team: Dr. Saskia Bakker (saskia.bakker@philips.com), Prof. Peter Lloyd, Prof. Somaya Ben Allouch.

SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC MODELS (WP3)
- ESR 8: Multi-sided value in data-driven services (University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science, Denmark). Supervisory team: Prof. Irina Shklovski (ias@di.ku.dk), Prof. Jens-Erik Mai, Dr. Ewa Luger.
- ESR 9: Co-creating multi-sided value propositions (University of Edinburgh, Institute of Design Informatics, UK). Supervisory team: Prof. Chris Speed (c.speed@ed.ac.uk), Dr. Bettina Nissen, Dr. Rachel Charlotte Smith.
- ESR 10: Designing sustainable socio-economic futures (University of Edinburgh, Institute of Design Informatics, UK). Supervisory team: Dr. Bettina Nissen (bettina.nissen@ed.ac.uk), Prof. Chris Speed, Dr. Heather Wiltse.

DEMOCRATIC DATA GOVERNANCE (WP4)
- ESR 11: Envisioning models of data governance (University of Edinburgh, Institute of Design Informatics, UK). Supervisory team: Dr. Ewa Luger (ewa.luger@ed.ac.uk), Prof. Irina Shklovski, Dr. Daria Loi.
- ESR 12: Designing alternatives for the Terms of Service (ToS) (Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden). Supervisory team: Dr. Heather Wiltse (heather.wiltse@umu.se), Prof. Johan Redström, Dr. Larissa Pschetz.
- ESR 13: Designing mechanisms for public deliberation on data use (Umeå University, Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden). Supervisory team: Dr. Heather Wiltse (heather.wiltse@umu.se), Prof. Johan Redström, Prof. Gerd Kortuem.

FUTURE DESIGN PRACTICES (WP5)
- ESR 14: An ethics-in-action framework for designing data-driven product service systems (University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science, Denmark). Supervisory team: Prof. Irina Shklovski (ias@di.ku.dk), Prof. Jens-Erik Maj, Dr. Marco Rozendaal.
- ESR 15: Prototyping new professional roles and design practices for the digital society (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Digital Life Centre, Netherlands). Supervisory team: Dr. Nazli Cila, Prof. Elisa Giaccardi (e.giaccardi@tudelft.nl), Prof. Johan Redström.

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