Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students who are bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time, to apply for our summer internship. They will join a team of social scientists who use qualitative or quantitative, empirical or critical methods to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape …
Apply for our sociotechnical systems postdoc position, for July 2026
Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. They will join a team of social scientists who use empirical and critical methods to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape technologies and their consequences. Our work draws on and …
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Job listing! Principal Researcher, studying sociotechnical systems, at MSR New England
Huge news: we may have the chance to hire a new, full-time Principal Researcher for the SMC! We haven’t grown our permanent research team in more than a decade, even as the questions we study feel like they change about every hour and half. So this is exciting news for us, and may be exciting …
Meet the new SMC interns, postdoc, and pre-doc!
It's that time again. Summer brings us four new SMC interns, a new SMC postdoc, and a new pre-doc research assistant! In their work, you'll see reflected our shift towards AI and data, but also many of the persistent concerns of the SMC: the implications for media, discursive imaginaries around new technologies, data and justice, …
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Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”)
Apply here: https://webportalapp.com/sp/login/2025_msr_predoc_sts (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.) NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. to accept the position. Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie, and …
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Ph.D. Internship Opportunity studying Organizational Copilot Adoption
Microsoft Research and the Viva product group are looking for an advanced PhD student for a 12-week paid internship bridging Viva’s user research team and Microsoft Research’s Cambridge, Massachusetts-based group of sociotechnically-oriented social scientists (that's us!). The internship will be in-person, based in Cambridge, MA. This intern will work with a Microsoft Research mentor and the …
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Apply now for the 2025 MSRNE summer internship in sociotechnical systems
Microsoft Research New England is looking for advanced Ph.D. students who are bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time, to apply for our summer internship. They will join a team of social scientists who use qualitative or quantitative, empirical or critical methods to study the social, political, and cultural dynamics that shape …
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The SMC @ AoIR 2024
The 25th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) begins next week in Sheffield, UK, and we are delighted to share that 26 SMC-connected scholars -- current and former researchers, postdocs, predocs, and interns -- are presenting in a total of 26 separate sessions. The SMC and AoIR have a long and storied …
Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Postdoc to start July 2025
Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 22, 2024
Welcoming our new SMC postdoc and 2024 interns!
We're once again lucky to share our offices with an extremely talented cohort of PhD student interns and a brand new postdoc. This year's new hires are conducting sociotechnical research spanning from digital harms and health, to shifting cultural imaginaries of work, to generative AI's role in data production, democracy, and even disaster management. Join …
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