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University of Texas

The School of Journalism at the University of Texas seeks a faculty member for a new position in Fall 2020. This is an open rank post for an individual to be hired as an Assistant tenure-track professor or an Associate or Full Professor.

The School, which offers a B.J., M.A., and Ph.D., is housed in the Belo Center for New Media. It is part of the top-ranked Moody College of Communication, which includes the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations and the Departments of Radio-Television-Film, Communication Studies, and Communication Science and Disorders.

This position is one in a four-person cluster hiring initiative focused on global media, disinformation and the Internet. The successful candidate will have expertise in the ways that new global media, including Internet-based platforms, create or enhance social and political vulnerabilities, strategies for remedying problems associated with disinformation worldwide, and how the connected world responds.

School of Journalism: https://journalism.utexas.edu/

Moody College of Communication: http://moody.utexas.edu/

Qualifications

Candidates should have teaching and research interests in the following areas: Transnational or global media systems, communication flows, and the evolving information setting plus at least one of the following:

(1) AI-driven media flows and circulation within the platform environment;

(2) user or audience processes involved in using online information;

(3) infrastructural developments (hardware and software, technologies, physical networks, etc.) among media industries that bear on matters of trust, choice, control and democracy;

(4) national and regional Internet and information policies and regulation bearing on disinformation systems.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. with a promising program of research and publication, a commitment to teaching, and interest in mentoring graduate students and undertaking collaborative research. We will consider a range of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological expertise.

Application Instructions

Interested applicants should submit a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, and the names of three individuals to contact for references. Confidential letters of recommendation will be requested of finalists.

Screening of applicants will begin immediately and will continue until November 15. Applications must be made via Interfolio's ByCommittee solution. If you do not have a Dossier account with Interfolio, you will be prompted to create one prior to applying for the position. If you have questions about using Interfolio, please email help@interfolio.com or call (877) 997-8807.

Questions can be directed to the chair of the search committee, Professor Sharon Strover at Sharon.strover@austin.utexas.edu.

About the Cluster Position:

The successful candidate for this position will be joining the UT Austin faculty as part of the Cluster and Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative. This initiative is designed to supplement departmentally-based hiring practices and norms and extend collaborative research and scholarship. This new initiative is authorizing up to 40 new faculty hires whose interdisciplinary areas of knowledge cross the boundaries of existing academic departments. The selected candidate will be expected to actively participate as a core member of The Global Internet, Media and (Dis)Information Initiative.

Contributions to the cluster will be an important facet of the faculty member’s annual performance evaluations and consideration for promotion/tenure. Other hires for this cluster are in process with the School of Information and the Department of Middle East Studies and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies.

The School of Journalism and the Moody College of Communication are committed to achieving diversity in its faculty, students, and curricula, and we welcome applicants who can help achieve these objectives. The University of Texas at Austin is a tobacco-free campus; for more information visit http://www.utexas.edu/tobaccofree/

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse (MAPD)

June 25-26, 2020

University of Liverpool

Deadline: December 15, 2019

Following on from previous “Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary Approaches” conferences in London (2016) and Edinburgh (2018), we are pleased to announce MAPD 2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse) will take place in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool on 25-26 June 2020.

The global political arena is changing at an unprecedented pace. We see the resurgence of authoritarianism, nativism/nationalism, sovereignism, populism and far-right movements driving major changes across societies against the backdrop of increasing global inequalities, left/right fragmentation, migration. In addition, we witness power plays between well-established and emerging global players resulting in re-militarization and ‘trade wars’. Obvious manifestations of these turbulent times include phenomena such as Brexit; the rise of political actors like Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Salvini and discursive articulations around hate speech, incivility, Islamophobia and Euroscepticism.

At the same time, we see an increase in the mediatisation and (re)articulation of political discourses (both top-down and bottom-up) through the use of technology and digital platforms. Along with traditional broadcasting and reporting of politicians’ speeches, party political broadcasts, campaign advertisements and government statements, we increasingly experience the political daily in new popular media forms such as Facebook feeds, promotional videos, tweets and online mash ups. These transformations require us to think critically about issues of saturation, manipulation, relations of power, political correctness, interference, influence, counter-discourses, subversion, information bubbles and fake news, to name a few.

The theme for this year’s conference reflects our aim to bring together scholars from a variety of discursive and political approaches to critically examine the challenges we face in such a volatile landscape and the theoretical and analytical responses we can provide. We encourage contributions which explore any aspect of the conference theme of “responding to new challenges”. These may include (but are not limited to):

• The role of social media and/or popular culture in the production, distribution and consumption of political discourses
• New theoretical and analytical challenges to the analysis of legitimation processes in discourse
• The (dis)advantages of present approaches to political discourse (e.g. cognitive, historical, corpus-driven, interpretive policy analysis, cultural political economy, argumentation-based approaches, etc.)
• Mediatization of discourses of authoritarianism, nativism/nationalism, sovereignism, populism and far-right movements
• The politics of the environment, the body, etc.
• (Multimodal) counter-discourses; including the use of social media platforms and new formats such as memes as sites and means of protest, resistance and subversion of hegemonic discourse
• Metadiscourse about the state of public/political discourse and issues surrounding access/voice
• Theoretical challenges: How to address issues of saturation, manipulation, relations of power, interference, influence, information bubbles, fake news, and incivility of political discourse
• Case studies of new social/ political phenomena, top-down/bottom-up political actors and their discursive articulations

Keynote speakers

• Prof Kay O’Halloran (University of Liverpool)
• Prof Michał Krzyżanowski (Örebro University, Sweden)

The conference language is English.

We encourage single papers and theme specific panels

Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion

Abstracts of 250-300 words (excluding bibliography) of single papers should be sent by email as a Word document attachment to MAPD2020@liverpool.ac.uk

Please include name, affiliation, email address and paper title in the body of the email.

Abstracts of panels (500 word maximum) must be submitted by the panel organiser(s) and should include a maximum of six contributions. Each panel paper must follow the criteria of the single papers outlined above.

Abstracts will be subject to review by an international scientific committee.

Deadlines:

• 15th December 2019: Deadline for submission of panel proposals and individual abstracts
• 31st January 2020: Notification of panels/papers acceptance. Please note that if a panel is not accepted panel papers will be considered individually

Queries about the conference and abstracts should be sent to the conference organisers, Franco Zappettini and Lyndon Way at MAPD2020@liverpool.ac.uk.

Conference Fees (including lunches and refreshments, but excluding conference dinner):

• Full fee: £ 200 - early bird (before 15 April 2020): £ 160
• Post graduates: £ 100 – early bird (before 15 April 2020): £80
• Single day fee: £ 150 – Post graduate Single Day fee: £60
• Conference Dinner: £ 40 (to be booked separately)

There will be reasonably priced accommodation available on campus

Organising Committee

• Ekaterina Balabanova, University of Liverpool, UK
• Sam Bennett, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
• Massimiliano Demata, University of Turin, Italy
• John Richardson, Sunshine Coast University, Australia
• Laura Filardo Llamas, University of Valladolid, Spain
• Simona Guerra, University of Leicester, UK
• Christopher Hart, University of Lancaster, UK
• Darren Kelsey, University of Newcastle, UK
• Veronika Koller, University of Lancaster, UK
• Michael Kranert, University of Southampton, UK
• Marzia Maccaferri, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
• Douglas Ponton, University of Catania, Italy
• Melani Schroeter, University of Reading, UK

Lusofona University, Lisbon

Deadline: November 11, 2019

Lusofona University, through it's R&D Unit CICANT, hereby opens a competition to recruit a PhD researcher, corresponding to position 49 of the Single Remuneration Table, under the terms of the applicable legislation, with an Open-Ended Employment Contract, within the scope of programme contract between Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., and the above mentioned University, supported by national funds inscribed in the budget of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) – and carried out in the Research Unit CICANT – Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies.

1 – Main Duties

CICANT – Centre or Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies aims to recruit a Coordinating Researcher for its “Media, Society and Culture” area. The work plan to be carried out aims to:

• Contribute to the implementation of ongoing projects in the unit in the field of media;
• Foster publication in reference journals in the field of the results of the research;
• Foster the creation and reinforcement of a R&D team in the area of media and culture studies;
• Foster the integration of the unit in national and international forums of the field;
• Foster links and joint projects with different public and private entities operating in this field;
• Foster the organization of scientific events which contribute to the increased awareness of the unit in this field and to knowledge sharing and creation.
• Ensure a new impetus for the area as well as its international development fostering, namely and in line with the unit’s strategic plan, the supervision of within the scope of the European programme H2020.

The goal is to recruit a researcher with an excellent publication rate and management of projects in this field of communication studies, with proven experience in leadership and management, in particular at international level.

Keywords: Media Literacy; Media Technologies; Society and Communication

Read more: https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/careers/

Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation

Article deadline: March 15, 2020

Patterns of cultural participation have been the focus of policy research for decades. Particularly since the millennium, quantitative data, often collected by governments, has established the notion of ‘non-participation’ as a ‘problem’ that the state needs to address (Balling and Kann-Christensen, 2013; Jancovich 2015 Stevenson, 2013, Stevenson et al., 2015). Yet despite decades of policies and projects to address this and a growing body of research, carried out by consultants and academics, celebrating the success of such interventions in addressing social inclusion and increasing personal wellbeing, the same ‘problem’ appears to remain in regard to the diversity of people who engage with state supported cultural organisations and activities (Warwick Commission, 2015). It has even been claimed that Europe is becoming it is becoming a “less cultural continent” (European Commission, 2013).

The way in which many projects, organisation and artists are funded and evaluated, combined with the state of financial precarity in which a large number permanently function, means that stories of failure about how cultural participation policies and projects have been enacted are largely overlooked and even supressed in the dominant discourses of cultural policy. This limits and reduces the capacity for “social learning” (May 1992) which may better facilitate change. Without an honest acknowledgement and critically reflective exploration into the nature and extent of failure present in the existing projects and policies by which cultural participation is supposedly supported, then the legitimacy of the status quo will remain difficult to challenge.

This special edition of Conjuctions invites contributions that explore the role and place of failure in regard to cultural participation. We invite empirical, theoretical and practice informed contributions from across a range of disciplines. Topics may include, but need not be confined to, the following:

• The value and role of recognising, understanding and learning from failure for cultural policymaking OR for cultural objects, artefacts and activities
• Defining and recognising failure in cultural participation projects/policies
• Cases studies of failure in cultural participation projects/policies
• The politics of failure in cultural participation projects/policies
• The morality and ethics of failure in regard to cultural participation projects/policies
• Evaluating and reporting on failure
• The relationship between quality and failure in delivering cultural projects
• Framing failure in evaluations
• Discourses of failure and success in cultural policy/cultural practice

Articles should be between 6000-8000 words, including endnotes, captions and headings. All articles will undergo blind peer review for final selection in the special edition

Any questions related to this special edition can be sent to the guest editors:

• Dr Leila Jancovich: l.jancovich@leeds.ac.uk
• Dr David Stevenson: dstevenson@qmu.ac.uk

Submissions can be made at: https://tidsskrift.dk/tcp/index

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2020

June 4-5, 2020

Athens, Greece

Deadline: (extended) October 30, 2019

A Two-day Symposium

Department of Communication and Media Studies, School of Economics and Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and Information, Communication & Society (iCS).

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ics2020conference/home

The development of young people’s identities and sense of selfhood is widely recognized as being a social activity undertaken through interaction and feedback with significant others. Advancing beyond earlier top-down models of socialization, whereby parents and teachers were largely seen as responsible for transmitting stable cultural norms, knowledge, political attitudes, religious beliefs and social practices to young people, contemporary understanding has instead foregrounded the active, dynamic, co-construction of young selves. Such approaches have not only drawn attention to the active engagement of young people in shaping their own identities but has also emphasized the wider social, political, economic, cultural contexts that frame the possibilities for the interactive realization of personhood. Most profoundly, and the focus of this international symposium, for the current generation of young people, the active construction of self is significantly mediated by and through a digital media ecology of communications networks, algorithms and platforms. These emergent networked environments have led to celebrations about the potential to enhance the development of young selves through wider access to knowledge, cultures, beliefs, identities and the opportunities to perform such self-formation through online interaction with diverse others. But it has also produced moral panics for those concerned about the perceived negative effects of digital media, such as attention deficit, the break-down of authority, dumbing down of education, infantilizing politics, and the weakening of traditional family ties.

Premised upon a notion of youth as a social construction, as well as upon its permeability, and taking into account how young people - whether as young children, tweens, teenagers, or late twentysomething, whether in the West or outside of it- are growing up with significant access to globalized media and transmedia platforms and narratives, this two-day international symposium will critically investigate the issues presented by the construction of young selves within the contemporary digital media ecology. With the aim to grasp the complexity and diversity of most young people’s experiences and practices with online technologies, we invite original research findings and theoretical analysis addressing (though not exclusively) such questions as:

• What role for young people do traditional markers of identity such as social class, religion, family, or geography play in online group interaction?

• As increasingly more young people find themselves geographically dispersed and living transitional lives in immigrant communities or in refugee camps, what kind of possibilities for connectedness, dialogue and identity-making online technologies have to offer?

• What value are social media platforms for gay, transgender, queer, atheist, or differently abled young people as spaces for socialization?

• How much are young people’s political norms and engagement practices facilitated by digital communication?

• How does everyday online engagement affect interaction between young people and significant others such parents, teachers and other traditional ‘authority’ figures?

• Does social networking influence learning practices, competencies or curriculum design?

• What are young people’s attitudes and actual use of digital media in everyday life?

• How should we assess the significance of celebrity culture for young people’s development of self?

• Are young people more likely to develop a transnational outlook as a consequence of the digital media ecology?

KEY DATES

We invite 400-word abstracts outlining empirical, theoretical or policy-orientated papers that address these or related questions.

Abstracts should be accompanied by a 100-word biography of the presenter(s) together with contact details, all sent to Assoc. Prof. Liza Tsaliki at icsathens2020@gmail.com

Abstract submission by 30 October 2019

Notification of decision: 15 December 2019.

A selection of papers presented at the symposium will be published in a special issue of the international Journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS).

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Sonia Livingstone, Professor. DPhil, FBA, FBPS, FRSA, OBE London School of Economics and Political Science
• Mary Celeste Kearney, Associate Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre Director, GeNDer Studies Program University of Notre Dame

Conference Organizers:

• Liza Tsaliki, Department of Communication and Media Studies, NKUA
• Dan Mercea, Department of Media, City University London
• Brian Loader, Editor-in-Chief iCS.

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Deadline: November 18, 2019

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for an Open Topic Tenure Track Professorship Future of Work (W1 / Assistant Professor).

The W1 professorship will focus on the area of communications science, specialising in the area of quantitative social sciences. We would especially welcome specialisation in the use and effects of digital media, social media, online research or corporate communication.

The W1 professorship is to be filled by the earliest possible starting date for an initial period of three years. Upon successful evaluation, the appointment will be extended for another three years. FAU offers the long-term perspective of a permanent appointment to a W2 or W3 professorship if the requirements of the tenure evaluation are met.

Please submit your complete application documents online at https://berufungen.fau.de by 18 November 2019, addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law.

For more information, please visit: https://www.fau.eu/university/careers-at-fau/professorships/

April 15-18, 2020

Philadelphia, USA

Deadline: November 1, 2019

The Science & Popular Culture Area of the PCA/ACA welcomes papers, panels, and round tables for the upcoming conference.

With the integral place of science in Western and global society as well as theproliferation of science and technology across all media, it is more important than ever to examine what popular culture tells us about science. Studying science in popular culture is essential to understanding how scientific ideas are utilized, explored, critiqued and sometimes exploited outside of their formal contexts and how popular audiences understand science. Popular fascination with science has even created a cultural niche of its own, giving rise to new engagements with scientific knowledge, practice, and technologies. Together with the /Journal of Science & Popular Culture/, this conference area seeks to inspire and promote new investigations into the interrelationship of science and society.

Proposals should be 100-250 words in length. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Representations of science/scientists in television, film, art, print, and other media
• The cultural influence of science/ influences of culture on science and scientists
• Use of popular culture texts (novels, films, television series, etc.) to argue for or against scientific theories such as evolution and climate change
• Internet culture and science
• Science-related cultural artefacts
• Scientists as celebrities / celebrity advocates of science
• Science communication, popularization and education
• Non-Western cultures and Science
• Intersections of science and the humanities
• Use of science in advertising and marketing
• Science fiction / science and fiction
• The artistic dimensions of science / science as art
• Critical examinations of scientifically framed popular beliefs and pseudoscience
• Science denial and science in a ‘Post-Truth’ world
• Public and popular dimensions of scientific debate
• Moments of conflict between scientific discoveries/knowledge/work andculture

Submission are open 1 August – 1 November 2019

To submit a paper: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-conference/

Brunel University London

Deadline: January 6, 2020

AHRC Funded Studentships in College of Business, Arts & Social Sciences via the TECHNE2 Doctoral Training Partnership.

Brunel University London is part of a consortium of universities in London and the southeast that form a national Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) focusing on the arts and humanities disciplines. TECHNE is one of ten Doctoral Training Partnerships receiving funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of their commitment to supporting postgraduate-level research into the arts and humanities disciplines.

Originally established in 2014, TECHNE has successfully collaborated with partner institutions and external organisations across London and the southeast to deliver industry-relevant research across a range of arts and humanities disciplines. The latest round of funding enables the consortium to widen its remit and continue this work.

As part of the DTP consortium, Brunel University London will support studentships for high-achieving arts and humanities scholars, which will commence in October 2020. The studentships will be offered through the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences. Students will be affiliated to one of the College’s interdisciplinary research centres –

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability and Global Lives. DTP students will become members of the College’s vibrant research community where they will benefit from Brunel’s diverse specialist expertise.

We are pleased to invite applications for studentships in the following subject areas:

• History
• Cultures and Heritage
• Visual Arts
• Performing and Creative Arts
• Languages and Literature

Please see a detailed subject area list at: http://www.techne.ac.uk/how-to-apply-for-a-techne-ahrc-studentship/techne-subjects

Studentships are available as either on a full-time or part-time basis.

Successful applicants for a Full-time award will receive an annual maintenance stipend of approximately £17003 per year (2019-20) RCUK rate, paid in monthly instalments in advance) for the period of their award ,plus Fees at the current RCUK rate for Full time or Part time courses.

How to apply and eligibility

The following documentation below should be submitted by email to emma.sigsworth@brunel.ac.uk

• Completed Application form
• An up-to-date CV;
• Details of your residential eligibility.
• Two academic references or names and contact details of two academic referees. One professional reference (if applicable).
• Must hold 2:1 or above Undergraduate and Masters in relevant discipline. Please supply copies of your Undergraduate transcript and certificate, and Masters Transcript and certificate (if applicable). If you have not yet completed your degree programme, please provide the most up-to-date transcript available.
• A copy of your English language qualification, where applicable. Any non-native speaker who has not been awarded a degree by a University in the UK will be expected to demonstrate English language skills to IELTS 7.0 (minimum 6.0 in any section).

Deadline for applications – 6th January 2020

Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access)

Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2019

Deadline for full paper submissions: April 19, 2020

The purpose of this special issue of Nordicom Review is to showcase the need to include social class as a central category in media and communications research, as well as to analyse how it intersects with other social dimensions such as race, gender, sexuality, age etc.

Social class underlies many debates within contemporary media and communications research. It is implicitly featured in debates about algorithmic targeting, digital surveillance and social sorting. It is also featured in debates about political communication, fake news and polarisation, as well as in relation to issues of media representations and media use. Social changes and phenomena in urgent need of attention such as increasing economic and cultural inequality and the rise of populist political movements are related to media and communication systems, while also being closely related to issues of class. Especially from a Nordic perspective, social class is more than ever a category that is needed in media research. The persistence of the idea of a Nordic exceptionalism and a Nordic (media) welfare state, against a reality of increasing social inequalities, makes it urgent to include a theoretical perspective on social class in analyses of the role and functioning of the media in the Nordic countries.

Contributions to the Special Issue should address one of the many areas in which social class is crucial for our understanding of media and communication. We welcome contributions that deal with social class in any media forms and genres, and that address social class from either the perspective of production, text or reception. Authors are free to adopt and/or develop any of the established theoretical notions of social class. The focus on the Nordic (media) welfare state means that contributions that highlight issues of social class in the Nordic region – in a single country or comparatively – are especially welcomed.

Contributions that provide opportunities for international comparisons are also welcome.

The deadline for full paper submissions is 19 April 2020.The preliminary time of publication is winter 2020/2021. The selection of papers to be published will take place according to the following three-step procedure:

Step 1: Authors are requested to submit the title and abstract (600 words max. incl. references) of their papers along with five to six keywords and short bios (150 words max. for each author) to the Special Issue editors. The deadline for submission of full abstracts is 15 November 2019 and the authors will be notified of the eventual acceptance by the end of December 2019 at the latest.

Step 2: If the abstracts are accepted, authors will be requested to submit full papers (7,000 words max. inclusive of any front or end matter) anonymised for double-blind review and formatted according to the Nordicom Review guidelines. The deadline for submission of full anonymised papers is 19 April 2020, after which a double-blind peer review will take place. Please note that if the submitted papers are incompatible with the earlier/accepted abstracts or are of insufficient academic quality, the Special Issue editors reserve the right to reject such papers in line with Nordicom Review’s editorial policy.

Feedback from reviewers will be sent to authors by the end of June 2020 at the latest. The deadline for submission of revised manuscripts is 30 September 2020.

For more information, please visit https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-class-inand-media

Uppsala University

Deadline: November 7, 2019

Uppsala University is a comprehensive research-intensive university with a strong international standing. Our mission is to pursue top-quality research and education and to interact constructively with society. Our most important assets are all the individuals whose curiosity and dedication make Uppsala University one of Sweden’s most exciting workplaces. Uppsala University has 44.000 students, 7.100 employees and a turnover of SEK 7 billion.

The Department of Informatics and Media is part of the Social Science faculty at Uppsala University. Researchers at the department contribute to the development of knowledge about current and future forms of communication and information in the disciplines Media- and Communication Studies (including Journalism), Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems. Education in media and communication is offered within three tracks: media studies, communication studies and journalism studies. Research in Media and Communication is carried out within all three tracks and focus on social and cultural change connected to communication, media and digitalization.

Principal duties:

• General responsibility for research and education at the Ph.D. level within the discipline Media and Communication Studies and responsibility for further development within the discipline.
• Teaching and supervision on all three cycles of studies offered within the discipline.
• Active participation in disciplinary teacher meetings - “kollegium”.
• Work with research grant applications and own research.

It is the ambition of the faculty that around half of the working hours should consist of own research. Beyond this, there is an option for a salaried sabbatical after a couple of years of employment. The role as responsible for the discipline Media and Communication entails coordination and development of research within all three tracks of the discipline, this covers participation, planning and management of research projects (including application for research funding) and external cooperation in both research and education matters. Further, cooperation within the Department of Informatics and Media with researchers/teachers in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems is required. Administrative assignments, including management positions on the departmental or other levels within Uppsala University, can be part of the duty as professor.

Qualifications required:

The eligibility criteria for employment as a professor are research as well as teaching experience (Higher Education Ordinance Ch 4 Sec 3). Research expertise should be demonstrated through independent research and through research activities of high international and national quality. The applicant should have demonstrated skills in planning, initiating and managing research projects, including the ability to secure competitive research grants, and well-documented aptitude in the supervision of Ph.D. students.

Teaching skills should be demonstrated through merits in teaching and instruction. In addition, applicants should be able to demonstrate a well-documented ability in supervision at undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. levels, as well as meet the criteria stated in the Uppsala University's appointment regulations (section 33) and the Faculty of Social Sciences’ complementary guidelines (section 2b).

It is required that the pedagogical skills, the scientific competence and the professional skills are relevant for the subject content of the post and the duties that are included in the employment.

According to Uppsala University’s appointment regulations, it is also a general eligibility requirement that teachers possess the personal qualities necessary to capably perform the duties of the post.

Applicants must have the ability to teach in Swedish and English.

The applicant is expected to have shown scientific excellence in any of the areas of media studies, communication studies or journalism studies. It is a merit if the applicant also has conducted qualified research in one or two other fields.

Assessment, research and teaching skills:

Assessment for the appointment of professors at Uppsala University shall be based on the degree of skills required for the appointment.

In the appointment of this professorship, ranking will be based primarily on research and teaching expertise, with special emphasis on research expertise. A combined consideration of all bases of assessment however, could result in an applicant deemed to be vastly superior in teaching expertise being ranked higher than a candidate with superior research expertise.

When the research expertise of an applicant is assessed, the quality achieved is of prime importance. The scope of the applicant’s research, in terms of both breadth and depth, is also essential to consider. The applicant’s contribution to the international and national scientific communities will be assessed based on quality and scope of research publications in the most relevant publication channels for the field. In the assessment of the requirement for international qualifications, the nature and specific conditions of the subject area will be taken into account.

Research expertise should be demonstrated through independent research that significantly exceeds the requirements of associate professor (docent) in terms of both quality and quantity.

Unless special circumstances exist, the applicant should have served as the primary supervisor for at least one Ph.D. student and supervised this student through completion and defense of their doctoral thesis. In assessing teaching expertise, teaching quality will be the prime consideration. The scope of teaching experience, in terms of both breadth and depth, will also be afforded consideration. Furthermore, consideration will be given to the capacity to plan, initiate, lead, and develop teaching and instruction, as well as the ability to connect research to teaching in respect to research in the subject at hand, subject didactics, and teaching and learning in higher education.

Assessment criteria, additional skills:

Candidates must also possess the necessary administrative and other skills significant to the subject content and duties of the position. The ability to cooperate, to develop and supervise activities and staff, and to contribute to synergies both within and outside the department will also be considered. Attention will also be given to the applicant’s ability to interact with the surrounding community and inform the public about research and development work.

Experience in managerial roles, demonstrated by supervision of a departmental environment or similar, will be considered meriting. When Uppsala University appoints new teachers, the applicants selected are those who, following a qualitative total assessment of expertise and merits, are judged to have the best potential to carry out and develop the relevant duties and contribute to a positive development of the department.

Merits must be documented in a manner that makes it possible to assess both quality and scope.

The Recruitment Committee may in this recruitment come to use interviews, trial-lectures and referrals. The applicant should therefore submit a list of referees with insight into the applicant’s professional skill as well as personal qualities that may be of relevance for the position, e.g. ability to cooperate, ability to lead and working methods.

Personal circumstances (such as full or part-time parental leave, trade union appointments, military service, or other) that may benefit the applicants in the assessment of qualifications should be included in the list of qualifications and experience (Curriculum Vitae).

Uppsala University strives to be an inclusive workplace that promotes equal opportunities and attracts qualified candidates who can contribute to the University’s excellence and diversity. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people of all backgrounds.

Currently, there are more employees of male gender than female gender among the professors at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The university strives for a more even distribution of the legal genders in this category.

How to apply:

A complete application should be submitted to Uppsala University’s on-line recruitment portal. It should comprise:

• Letter of application
• List of appendices Curriculum Vitae
• Account of academic qualifications
• List of publications Account of teaching qualifications
• Account of other qualifications
• Academic works and any educational works being brought to bear
• List of referees

Instructions on how to prepare your application are available on the Faculty’s website:

Instructions to applicants for appointment as professor: https://mp.uu.se/documents/432512/34571377/instructions-professor.pdf/36230aba-d96c-4c8f-8171-a2c410856d23

Note! Applications and appendices must be submitted digitally on the recruitment portal My Network. Any cited publications that are not in digital format must be sent in three copies to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala. Please clearly mark the envelope/package with the reference number UFV-PA 2019/3115

For more information, please see:

Appointment regulations for Uppsala University: http://regler.uu.se/digitalAssets/92/c_92570-l_1-k_appointment-regulations-for-uppsala-university.pdf

and the Faculty’s complementary guidelines: http://regler.uu.se/digitalAssets/644/c_644748-l_1-k_complementaryguideslinesaorr_eng201246.pdf

Salary: Individually negotiated salary

Starting date: According to the agreement

Type of position: Indefinite duration, full-time

Working hours: 100 %

For additional information on the appointment, please contact: Head of Department Jenny Eriksson Lundström tel 018-471 5163, Jenny.Eriksson@im.uu.se

MCS subject responsible, Senior Lecturer Göran Svensson tel 018-471 1514, Goran.Svensson@im.uu.se.

For questions regarding the application process, please contact administrator Emma van Aller, 018-471 2559, samfak@samfak.uu.se.

We look forward to receiving your application no later than November 7th

2019, UFV-PA 2019/3115

In the event of any disagreement between the English and the Swedish versions of this announcement, the Swedish version takes precedence.

Please do not send offers of recruitment or advertising services. Applications must be submitted as described in this advertisement.

Placement: Department of Informatics and Media

Type of employment: Full time, Permanent position

Pay: Fixed pay

Number of positions: 1

Working hours: 100 %

Town: Uppsala

County: Uppsala län

Country: Sweden

Union representative: Seko Universitetsklubben seko@uadm.uu.se

ST/TCO tco@fackorg.uu.se

Saco-rådet saco@uadm.uu.se

Number of reference: UFV-PA 2019/3115

Last application date: 2019-11-07