First Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Fellow selected in a new Nordic Fellowship Programme
Sociologist Alison Gerber from Lund University is awarded an AIAS-RJ Fellowship to work on a research project on the ways that new kinds of evidentiary images move between science and the law. The fellowship starts on 1 September, enabled by a donation from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to expand Nordic collaborations.
A donation from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) allows AIAS to open a new fellowships programme, the AIAS-Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Fellowship (AIAS-RJ Fellowship) targeted at researchers from a Swedish research institution. The aim of the programme is to strengthen the ties and expand collaboration across the Danish and Nordic research communities.
Advancing interdisciplinary research in an interdisciplinary community
The first fellow selected in the AIAS-RJ programme is sociologist Alison Gerber, associate professor at the Department of Sociology at Lund University in Sweden. Her research areas span sociological theory, economic sociology, cultural sociology and science and technology studies.
At AIAS, Alison Gerber will spend a year as part of an interdisciplinary, international community to work on her own research project that studies new forms of evidentiary images as they move between science and the law.
Her project is entitled ‘Show & Tell: Representation, visualization, and evidence across epistemic cultures.’ In it, she will explore what happens when we encounter new kinds of images as evidence, such as brain scans and botanical illustrations. In her project, she is concerned with the specific features that make new kinds of images more (or less) credible for different audiences, as technologies, methods, images and people move between scientific, practitioner and professional communities.
About the AIAS-RJ Fellowship and how to apply
The AIAS-RJ Fellowship programme is open to curiosity-driven scholars in the humanities and social sciences with a research experience of a minimum of four years after completion of their PhD. Applicants must hold a tenured position at a Swedish research institution.
- Opening of the next call – expected in August 2025
- Deadline for applications – expected in November 2025
Further information about the fellowship programme and the next call for applications will be announced here:
https://aias.au.dk/opportunities-at-aias/aias-rj-fellowships
The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) (https://www.rj.se/en/) is also funding similar initiatives, targeting Nordic researchers, at three of AIAS's Nordic ‘sister’ institutes, namely the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Sweden; the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo, Norway and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) in Finland.
Contact
Lotte Holm, AIAS deputy director
E-mail: lho@aias.au.dk
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