Global Development Awards: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage

Published On: Jun 10 2025

Deadline: Jun 18, 2025

The Global Development Awards Competition (GDAC) is GDN’s largest and longest-running programme that brings together a rich community of researchers and development practitioners. It is an award scheme that: Identifies talent and supports the career advancement of researchers in the Global South; Funds innovative social development projects implemented by NGOs that benefit marginalised groups in the developing world.
THEME - 2025 EDITION: Digital Transformation for Universal Health Coverage
Digital health is a cultural transformation of traditional healthcare. Digital technologies ...

UESTC | Academic Positions at all levels

Published On: May 15 2025

Deadline: Dec 31, 2025

The Advanced Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (AI-HSS) of The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is seeking outstanding scholars at all career stages to strengthen our research and teaching capabilities in the ethics and philosophy of science and technology. Successful candidates will join either the Research Center for Ethics and Governance of Science and Technology or the Research Center for Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science and Technology, conducting cutting-edge research on ethical, philosophical, and governance issues related to emerging te...

Nominate 4S Council positions

Published On: May 9 2025

Deadline: May 16, 2025

As a 4S member you can nominate and self-nominate for upcoming 4S Council positions until May 16:
4S: https://forms.gle/rovFdXdRVKqVKGw58
6S: https://forms.gle/Nca8jZJkGsRoFx4a7
More here: https://4sonline.org/4s_elections_2025.php.

Berggruen Prize Essay Competition

Published On: May 22 2025

Deadline: Jul 31, 2025

The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...

Australian & New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference

Published On: Jun 3 2025

Deadline: Jul 9, 2025

On behalf of the Australian & New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM) we look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 conference. The conference will take place between 8-11 July at the University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus. The biennial ANZSHM conference provides a unique opportunity for anyone interested in the history of health and medicine to network and to explore medical histories of all kinds. The theme for 2025 will focus on how medical and health history continues to be made in our own times and what is its impact? Social highlights include Welcome Drinks on Tuesday...

Seeking Nominations for ASA Anti-Racism Awards

Published On: Mar 2 2024

Deadline: Mar 15, 2024

The 4S community is invited to submit nominations for two prizes from the American Sociological Association (ASA) recognizing antiracism scholarship and practice it the intersection of science, knowledge, technology, and society.

New Book | Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Published On: Jun 5 2025

New and emerging technologies, especially ones that infiltrate intimate spaces, relations, homes, and bodies, are often referred to as creepy in media and political discourses. In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin introduce a feminist theory of creep that they substantiate through critical engagement with smart homes, smart dust, smart desires, and smart forests toward dreams of feminist futures. Contributing authors further illuminate what is otherwise obscured, assumed, or dismissed in characterizations of technology as creepy or creeping. Con...

CfP | InterAcademy Partnership Competitive Grants

Published On: Oct 18 2024

Deadline: Dec 2, 2024

The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) invites proposals from IAP member academies and regional networks, for projects that would help advance IAP’s mission and strategic goals. Proposed projects should preferably be collaborative across member academies and regional networks. Priority will be given to project proposals that aim to establish or continue support for collaborations across disciplines (for example, collaborations across academies of science, medicine and engineering), especially in areas linked with recent or ongoing IAP projects, and/or involve long-term IAP member academies a...

New Book | Every American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life

Published On: Jun 5 2025

For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened? Drawing on a decade of research, Every American an Innovator by Matthew Wisnioski investigates how innovation—a once obscure academic term—became ingrained in our institutions, our education, and our beliefs about ourselves.

New Book | Interrogating Development: The Mobilisation of Science, Technologies, and Technical Assistance in Postwar Mexico

Published On: May 22 2025

This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography. Despite – or perhaps because of – claims of “revolutionary nationalism”, Mexico played a crucial international role during the decades following World War II, both by challenging and enacting developmentalist models, values, and projects that stressed national priorities, resonating beyond its borders and even outside Latin America.

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