MACS tomorrow: Working with industry
Posted on October 5th, 2006, under Academia, Events
Tomorrow is Kat’s talk on ‘Working with industry (during your PhD)’. If you haven’t been following her work here or here, Kat Jungnickel is a PhD student at INCITE, an Incubator for Critical Inquiry into Technology and Ethnography based in the Sociology Department at the University of Surrey. She is currently undertaking a multi-sited ethnography of volunteer community wireless networks in Australia for her PhD research, while also working with Dr Nina Wakeford on an Intel funded project - “Domestic Space and Interfaces for Located Mobility; Wireless infrastructures and the changing nature of domestic culture in Australia”.
Tomorrow she is sharing her experiences as an Australian living and working in London who has moved from commercial creative facilitation and media management to freelance work and PhD study. The session will be an informal discussion of the issues involved in navigating such a career path, while touching on questions of methodology in both academic and industry-funded research contexts. It will be of interest to students and researchers in media, cultural studies, sociology and IT fields.
Kicking off from 2pm at the CCCS. There will be drinks afterwards in the staff club, and elsewhere…
On October 10th, 2006 at 11:51 am, weekly INCITE » New news. said:
[…] MACS, WIFI & TASA: Talks in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth Kat was invited by Mel Gregg to speak about ‘Working with industry’ to MACS - Media and Communication Studies - members at UQ. She is also planning a talk for Mel and Gerard Goggin’s Wireless Seminar in December at USyd and has had a paper accepted for TASA - the Australian Sociological Association in December in Perth. […]