Microsoft Research Intern - Impacts Employee Connections 

United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge 

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Microsoft Research and the Viva product group are looking for an advanced PhD student for a 12-week paid Research Internship bridging Viva’s user research team and Microsoft Research’s Cambridge, Massachusetts-based group of sociotechnically-oriented social scientists. The internship will be in-person, based in Cambridge, MA.

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program.

Other Requirements

• Research Interns are expected to be physically located in their manager’s Microsoft worksite location for the duration of their internship.
• In addition to the qualifications, you’ll need submit the names and email contact information for three potential academic letters of reference (one contact must be your dissertation advisor). Note that candidates should tell their recommenders that despite the auto-request for a letter of recommendation, they do not need to submit letters unless they are contacted and asked to do so personally by a member of the search committee, after the initial review of applications.

• Along with your application, please attach the following:

  • A short description (no more than 1 page, single-spaced) of your qualitative training and research experience. If you have familiarity or depth in other methods, you can include that as well.

  • A short description (no more than 1 page, single spaced) of your training and experience in studying topics related to organizations, new technology, and/or related areas.

  • A brief description of your dissertation project (no more than 1 page, single spaced). Feel free to attach a separate citations page–we will not include that in the page count.

  • An academic article-length manuscript (~7,000 or more) that you have written (published or unpublished) demonstrates your writing skills. We won’t count citations in this word count.

  • A copy of your CV.

  • If available, pointers to your website or other online presence (this is not required).

• We will count your application as ON TIME, as long as we have your materials, minus the letters of recommendation.

• Training in a relevant discipline such as communication, business, sociology, information studies, hci, law, media studies, science & technology studies, human-computer interactions, or related fields.
• Proven qualitative methodological foundation.
• Theoretical depth in areas relevant to a research project on social connections at work, organizational culture, and the adoption of new technology in the workplace.
• Applicants from historically marginalized communities, underrepresented in higher education, and students from universities outside of the United States are encouraged to apply.

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