ECREA WEEKLY digest ARTICLES

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Dear colleagues, 

We invite you to submit abstracts for the planned special issue on ‘Predictive Governance in the 21st Century – Governing Futures through Forecasting Algorithms’. Deadline for 300-500 word abstract submission is 31 March 2025. Invited full texts (max. 8000 words) must be submitted by the end of September 2025. Further information can be found via this link: https://uni-bielefeld.sciebo.de/s/eiU2a6lj28tNceq. 

September 25-26, 2025

University of Padova, Italy

Deadline: April 27, 2025

The conference invites researchers to investigate the multiple ways in which young people interact with, negotiate, and reinvent intimacy in a progressively digitalized world. The goal of the conference is to create a critical discussion space to reflect on the opportunities, challenges, and contradictions inherent in digital intimacies, exploring its intersections with the social, cultural, and technological dimensions of daily life. While the digital offers new possibilities for connections, self-expression, and identity construction, it simultaneously raises questions about privacy, surveillance, commodification, and inequalities.

Find the full call for papers and submission guidelines here: http://www.digitalintimacies.eu/conference

October 8, 2025

University of Wrocław, Poland

Deadline: March 26, 2025

The University of Wrocław, in collaboration with the CoREM Consortium, invites PhD students to submit presentation proposals for the academic seminar "Intergenerational Pedagogies of Memory: Arts, Curatorship, and Youth Participation," which will take place on October 8, 2025, in Wrocław, Poland.

This event marks the launch of the European-funded project "Collective Remembrance: Engaging Youth Through Curatorial Practices" (CoREM), coordinated by Pompeu Fabra University under the direction of Dr. Macarena García González. The project aims to engage young people in historical memory and genocide education through curatorship at institutions such as the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, the Museum of History of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA).

The seminar will feature international academics and professionals discussing key topics related to the project. Two PhD students whose research is relevant to CoREM will be selected, offering them the opportunity to contribute to developing methodologies that promote youth participation in curating historical narratives.

Submission Requirements

Applicants must submit:

• Proposal title.
  
• 300-word abstract.
  
• Academic CV.
  
• Motivation letter (400-500 words).
  

All documents must be combined into a single PDF file, named using the format "CoREM_Seminar_[LastName]_[FirstName].pdf," and sent via email to Dr. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak (justyna.deszcz-tryhubczak@uwr.edu.pl) with the subject: "CoREM Seminar Proposal - [Name]."

Submission deadline: March 26, 2025

Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2025

Selected participants will receive support for accommodation for up to three nights and a travel expense reimbursement of up to 300 EUR. Additionally, they will be invited to attend the internal CoREM Consortium seminar on October 9, 2025.

For more information, please contact Dr. Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak at the email address above.

https://www.upf.edu/web/joviscom/noticies/-/asset_publisher/ZdlBO3f8Y0u1/content/convocat%25C3%25B2ria-per-a-estudiants-de-doctorat-seminari-acad%25C3%25A8mic-sobre-pedagogies-intergeneracionals-de-la-mem%25C3%25B2ria/maximized

October 23-24, 2025

Vilnius, Lithuania, Sinemateka

Deadline: April 15, 2025

Conference organisers: The DIGISCREENS team (University of Bergen, Örebro University, University of Granada, Cinema and Media Research Center at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)

Selection committee: Jono Van Belle (Örebro University, Sweden), Angela Rivera (University of Granada, Spain), Lina Kaminskaitė-Jančorienė (Cinema and Media Research Center at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)

The rise of streaming platforms has changed the production, distribution and consumption of films and TV series. On the one hand, streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, or Max have increased the possibilities for viewers to watch content produced in a wide variety of national contexts. On the other hand, some policies, such as the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVSMD), have sought to level the market between domestic and transnational platform suppliers and protect the production of film and television in Europe (Lobato 2019; Kostovska et al. 2020). This competition to preserve the European audiovisual sector raises a number of questions about programming, content, and viewing habits as well as how audiences negotiate their identities in relation to what they watch.

The DIGISCREENS’ team invites participants to focus on how digital audiovisual platforms contribute to transform social and cultural dynamics in Europe in the era of streaming. This conference, concluding our project, aims to connect researchers working with films and TV series on streaming platforms from the perspective of policy, production and distribution, social and cultural values on screen or audience reception. We hope to bring together industry actors and academics to assess how the current audiovisual media landscape affects (a) the construction of identity and understanding of the other through global, yet culturally specific, mediations of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social aspects, and (b) the negotiation of democratic values such as equality, inclusion, and solidarity.

We welcome submissions on (but not limited to):

* (trans)national audiovisual media policy;

* impact of audiovisual policy on global and national streaming platforms;

* audiovisual policy and negotiation of democratic values (equality, inclusion and solidarity);

* audiovisual policy and negotiation of identity (gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) and diversity;

* the impact of global streaming platforms for European national film or TV industries;

* representation of diversity and identity (gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) in films and TV series distributed on streaming platforms;

* audience viewing habits and streaming platforms;

* audience reception and representation of diversity and identity (gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) in films and TV series;

* audience preferences choosing content;

* identities and diversity of audiences and streaming platforms;

* streaming and research methods;

* streaming audiovisual media and data.

The project DIGISCREENS is supported by The Research Council of Norway, Research Council of Lithuania, FORTE: Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, la Agencia Nacional de Investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia e Investigación, under CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement no 101004509.

For more info about the DIGISCREENS project: https://www.uib.no/en/digiscreens

Send your an abstract (max 300 words) and a short bio digiscreens.conference@gmail.com before Tuesday 15th of April. Participants will be notified by the 15th of May.

May 20, 2025

New Brunswick, USA

Deadline: March 10, 2025

We’re excited to share the call for the interdisciplinary PhD Symposium that will be held as part of the 17th Annual ACM Web Science Conference 2025 (WebSci’25).

Applications should be up to 3 pages (including references, appendices, etc.), single-blind submissions, and the student should be the single author. Submissions will be accepted through March 10th, 2025 (AOE) at the following Google form link: https://forms.gle/eiZDoUi6e2b5NKpc6. Accepted submissions will be included in the WebSci’25 companion proceedings and allowed for oral presentation during the PhD Symposium on 20 May 2025 in New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Full details about the WebSci’25 Symposium can be found at: https://www.websci25.org/call-for-phd-symposium/ and are copied below.

Important dates

• PhD Symposium proposal submission: March 10, 2025 
  
• PhD Symposium proposal notification: April 1, 2025
  
• Camera ready version due: April 8, 2025
  
• PhD Symposium Date: May 20, 2025
  

Note that all submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.  

Overview 

We are pleased to announce the Interdisciplinary PhD Symposium at WebSci’25 happening in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA on 20 May 2025. This symposium will offer PhD students the opportunity to present and discuss their research plans and ongoing research for an interdisciplinary audience. We aim for a lively and engaged discussion, maximizing early-stage ideas exchange and interdisciplinary discussion on emerging or novel ideas/research. This Symposium provides an opportunity for PhD students to receive constructive feedback and aims to bring together early-career and senior scholars working on related topics.  

Submission Guidelines

We are seeking up to 3 pages (including references, appendices, etc.) single-blind submissions, and the student should be the single author. All papers should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template under “Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform, which is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty. In particular; please ensure that you are using the two-column version of the appropriate template.

Submissions will be accepted through March 10th, 2025 (AOE) at the following Google form link: https://forms.gle/eiZDoUi6e2b5NKpc6

All contributions will be judged by the PhD Symposium Program Committee. Accepted submissions will be included in the WebSci’25 companion proceedings and allowed for oral presentation during the PhD Symposium on 20 May 2025.  

Submission Themes 

We welcome quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research, including techniques from the social sciences and computer science. We welcome papers on a wide range of topics at the heart of Web Science, including but not limited to:

Understanding the Web

• Trends in globalization and fragmentation of the Web
  
• The architecture, philosophy, and evolution of the Web
  
• Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web
  
• Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies
  
• The Spread of Large Models on the Web
  

Making the Web Inclusive

• Issues of discrimination and fairness
  
• Intersectionality and design justice in questions of marginalization and inequality
  
• Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people on the Web
  
• Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security, and trust
  
• Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide
  
• Human-centered security and robustness on the Web
  

The Web and Everyday Life

• Social machines, crowd computing, and collective intelligence
  
• Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation
  
• Legal and policy issues, including rights and accountability for the AI industry
  
• The creator economy: Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web
  
• Politics and social activism on the Web
  
• Online education and remote learning
  
• Health and well-being online
  
• Social presence in online professional event spaces
  
• The Web as a source of news and information
  

Doing Web Science

• Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science
  
• Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information
  
• Analysis and modeling of human and automatic behavior (e.g., bots)
  
• Analysis of online social and information networks
  
• Detecting, preventing, and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake content, spam)
  
• Novel analysis techniques for Web and social network analysis
  
• Recommendation engines and contextual adaptation for Web tasks
  
• Web-based information retrieval and information generation
  
• Supporting heterogeneity across modalities, sensors, and channels on the Web.
  
• User modeling and personalization approaches on the Web.
  

PhD Symposium Chairs

Arpita Biswas (Rutgers University)

Jianing Li (Rutgers University)

Kenny Joseph (University of Buffalo)

Yphtach Lelkes (University of Pennsylvania)

October 30-31, 2025 

Stockholm, Sweden 

Deadline: May 1, 2025 

The conference aims to foster engaged debates about, and a comprehensive understanding of, challenges related to the quickly transforming algorithmic society, for media users across Europe. We welcome a wide range of approaches and look forward to discussions that will contribute to scientific analysis of our contemporary media world. 

Read more: https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/calendar/events/2025-10-30-ecrea-audience-and-reception-studies-2025 

March 6, 2025

London School of Economics, UK/online

Thursday 6 March 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm (drinks reception to follow) 

In-person and online public event (Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE)

Hosted by the Department of Media and Communications

In person attendance: no registration required, seating on a first come basis. 

Online attendance: register here

Join us for this public event to celebrate the book launch of Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. 

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits and who loses from the struggles over victimhood in public culture? In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows how claiming pain is about claiming power: who deserves to be protected as a victim and who should be punished as a perpetrator. She argues that even if suffering is universal, this "politics of pain" is deeply embedded within power relations and ultimately privileges the voices of the powerful over those of the powerless.

Meet our speakers and chair

Lilie Chouliaraki (@chouliaraki_l) is Professor of Media Communications at LSE. Her main interest lies in understanding how the media shapes our ethical and political relationship to vulnerable others; how claims to pain intersect with power relations to inform the ways we witness vulnerable others and the ways we are invited to feel, think and act towards them.  

Rosalind Gill is Professor of Inequalities in Creative and Cultural Industries at Goldsmiths, University of London. Gill has produced groundbreaking work on gender and media; cultural and creative work; and mediated intimacy, and made a significant contribution to debates about the ‘sexualization of culture’. Her many books include Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media and Confidence Culture.

Radha Sarma Hegde is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Her research and teaching focus on migration, media flows, globalization and transnational feminism. She is the author of Mediating Migration,  editor of Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures and co-editor of Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora.

Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (@KarinWahlJ) is Professor of Journalism, Media and Culture at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture, where she serves as University Dean of Research Environment and Culture. She has published 9 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters on journalism and citizenship including, Emotions, Media and Culture.

Myria Georgiou (@MyriaGeorgiou4) is Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Professor Georgiou is the author and editor of five books and more than sixty peer reviewed publications. Her work has been published in English, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Greek. She has also worked as a consultant for a number of regional and international organisations, most importantly the Council of Europe in three different projects. 

More about this event

The event will be followed by book sales of Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood, as well as a book signing with the author. 

The Department of Media and Communications (@MediaLSE) is a world-leading centre for education and research in communication and media studies at the heart of LSE’s academic community in central London. The Department is ranked #1 in the UK and #3 globally in the field of media and communications (2024 QS World University Rankings).

Hashtag for this event: #LSEEvents

Recherches en communication ( bilingual special issue)

Deadline: April 6, 2025

https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/rec/announcement/view/1233

Special issue editors: Geoffroy Patriarche (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), Victor Wiard (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles), and Trisha Meyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 

A whole area of media and communication research investigates how different inequalities shape, and are shaped by, the production, the circulation, the reception and the effects of news and other kinds of information. This bilingual (English and French) special issue in Recherches en communication aims to develop such lines of enquiry within the field of disinformation research. 

We understand disinformation as deliberate and organized misinformation, usually with the aim of harming an individual, a group, an organization or a country. In turn, inequality is viewed as the situation in which certain social groups have less opportunities, resources and/or outcomes than others because of their gender, education, income, race, ethnicity, religion, living place, or any other structural or identity-based positions. In this special issue, we examine how disinformation shapes inequalities and vice versa. 

Proposals are invited to address one or more of the following three research avenues: disinformation as a source of inequalities, disinformation as an outcome of inequalities, and inequalities in the mitigation of disinformation. Interested authors are invited to submit an abstract (in English) of 750 words all-inclusive by 6 April 2025. 

This special issue is an initiative of EDMO BELUX 2.0, a multidisciplinary hub that brings together academics, fact-checkers, disinformation analysts, and media literacy organizations to monitor, analyze and contribute to the mitigation of disinformation in Belgium and Luxembourg (https://belux.edmo.eu). EDMO BELUX 2.0 is one of the 14 national or regional hubs being coordinated by EDMO.eu, the European Digital Media Observatory (https://edmo.eu).

Link to the full text of the call: https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/rec/announcement/view/1233

Sandra Borges Tavares

This book provides a rich analysis of the intangible legacies of mega-events and their impact on youth citizenship and civic engagement. It focuses on the memories and expectations of young inhabitants from London and Rio de Janeiro in relation to the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games. By focusing on the Olympics as a case study of one of the most mediatised mega-events, this book examines how youth discourses about the Games provide important enactments of local, national, transnational and cultural identities prompted by the memories and imaginaries of the Games. It fills important gaps in the current scholarship dedicated to Mega-events, Youth Citizenship and Media, by touching on the topics related to mediated memories, globalisation, mediatisation, youth citizenship and memory studies. It also seeks  to explore and contribute, from a new perspective, to a new idea of intangible legacies of mega-events. 

While this research explores and reviews the concept of intangible legacies of the Olympic Games it also provides an opportunity for young people, from two global distinct contexts, to voice their concerns and ideas about society while engaging with different topics that are relevant to them. It also demonstrates and supports the idea that young people are engaged with politics and their local or national contexts, but through different formats and interests. Hence, it suggests that further consultation is needed in order to understand the multiple meanings of the Games' intangible legacies.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-6579-3?sap-outbound-id=D9A956F96DA99DCA312FB3F4ECFD93EF8116FA00&utm_source=standard&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_LAN36_0000019083_Book+author+congrats+NEW&utm_content=EN_33928_20250224&mkt-key=615960697A0C1EDFBBF93291058F197F

University of Stirling

Apply here: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-stirling/list/details/?jobId=4219&jobTitle=Lecturer%20in%20Digital%20Media 

Communications, Media & Culture (CMC) wishes to appoint a suitably qualified candidate at Lecturer Grade 7/8 (Teaching and Research) with specialist interests in digital media and analytics to enhance and expand the Division’s teaching, international partnerships, research, and knowledge exchange activities, including public engagement and short-course opportunities, as well as to provide strategic direction in this area.

The successful candidate will have an established profile as a lecturer and researcher in digital media and analytics. They will join our award-winning Digital Media team and play a crucial role in contributing to the delivery of innovative, research-based and industry-relevant education to our students, enhancing internationalisation, managing our home and international partnership programmes, and expanding our strategic research partnerships with external stakeholders across digital media and creative industries.

The candidate will primarily contribute to teaching social media and analytics on our undergraduate degree in Digital Media and MSc in Digital Media and Communications, including on our transnational education programmes with the Singapore Institute of Management (Singapore) and Chengdu University (China). In addition, they will contribute to digital media teaching across the CMC undergraduate and postgraduate portfolio. They will be an excellent communicator who is able to effectively teach, motivate and mentor postgraduate and undergraduate students. Post holders may be required to travel abroad as part of their duties.

An established research profile will be evidenced by an emerging track record of published research, peer reviewed scholarly activity, and a record of pursuing and attracting research funding. The appointee will have a strong understanding of various forms of digital media, social media, analytics, big data and data science, the processes behind these and in relation to complex social issues (e.g. social justice, environmental sustainability, creative economy, smart cities, human rights, health and wellbeing, creative futures). The appointed candidate will contribute to the cutting-edge research in emerging digital media fields produced by colleagues in the Digital Media research team, resulting in REF outputs, impact and environment narratives. They will engage effectively with internal departments within the University and external stakeholders to pursue opportunities for collaboration, partnerships, impact and income generation and enhancing CMC’s regional, national, and international profile.

Applicants with specialist knowledge, skills or interests in the following areas are invited to apply:

• Social media and social media analytics
  
• Data science and analytics
  
• Data visualisation
  
• Quantitative research and quantitative research methods
  
• Web analytics
  
• Digital storytelling
  
• Digital audiences, cultures and creative media industries
  
• Future directions in digital media analytics and AI
  

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Alenka Jelen, Head of the Division of Communications, Media and Culture: alenka.jelen@stir.ac.uk

Description of Duties

Grade 7

• Engage in individual and collaborative research, which aligns to the strategic direction of the University, establish a distinctive programme of research and disseminate results through regular publication in high impact journals, books and conference proceedings
  
• Identify appropriate sources of funding, prepare research proposals for funding bodies and manage grants awarded
  
• Supervise and mentor research students and staff as required, providing direction, support and guidance
  
• Design, teach and assess a range of teaching and learning, supervision and assessment activities across BA (Hons) Digital Media and MSc Digital Media and Communications, but also across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including online programmes where required
  
• Participate in the Faculty’s local and international engagement activities as required, e.g. delivering teaching and CPD courses, contributing to joint programmes and recruitment of students. This is likely to require occasional periods of international travel
  
• Participate in, and develop, networks and collaborations both internally and externally to the Division/Faculty/University
  
• Participate in the administrative processes of the Division/Faculty/University, including programme and module leadership, managing international partnerships, committee membership, quality assurance procedures and recruitment and admission of students
  
• Any other duties, commensurate with the grade of the post
  

Grade 8

• Engage in individual and collaborative research, which aligns to the strategic direction of the University, establish a distinctive programme of research and disseminate results through regular publication in high impact journals, books and conference proceedings
  
• Identify appropriate sources of funding, prepare research proposals for funding bodies and manage grants awarded
  
• Supervise research students and staff as required, providing direction, support and guidance
  
• Design, teach and assess a range of teaching and learning, supervision and assessment activities across BA (Hons) Digital Media and MSc Digital Media and
  
• Communications, but also across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including online programmes where required
  
• Contribute to curriculum review and enhancement, in a manner that supports a research-led and practice-based approach to student learning and enhances student experience and employability
  
• Participate in the Faculty’s international engagement activities as required e.g delivering teaching, contributing to joint programmes and recruitment of students
  
• Participate in, and develop, networks and collaborations both internally and externally to the Division/Faculty/University
  
• Participate in the administrative processes of the Division/Faculty/University including committee membership, quality assurance procedures and recruitment and admission of students
  
• Any other duties, commensurate with the grade of the post

Essential Criteria

Grade 7

• Qualifications
  
• • PhD in relevant discipline (digital media, media and communication studies or similar) or close to successful completion
• Knowledge, Skills & Experience
  
• • Evidence of a developing publication record in digital media, analytics and/or digital creative and media cultures
  • Credible plans for the active pursuit of external research funding
  • Experience or knowledge to design, teach and assess modules in the subject area
  • Evidence of the ability to deliver excellent teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level
  • A commitment to diversity and inclusivity within teaching and research, and
  • an understanding of the needs of a diverse student cohorts

Grade 8

• Qualifications
  
• • PhD in relevant discipline (digital media, media and communication studies or similar)
• Knowledge, Skills & Experience
  
• • Established track record of high quality published research in digital media, analytics and/or digital creative and media cultures
  • A record of involvement in applications for external funding for research and/or knowledge transfer
  • Experience of supervising dissertation projects across the range of undergraduate/ postgraduate and of supervising doctoral students
  • Experience of providing high quality teaching across a range of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level preferably including online/digital programmes
  • Experience of designing and delivering course modules
  • Evidence of successful co-ordination, support, supervision, management and/or mentoring of others
  • A commitment to diversity and inclusivity within teaching and research, and
  • an understanding of the needs of a diverse student cohorts

Desirable Criteria

Grade 7

• Qualifications
  
• • Higher Education teaching qualification or equivalent e.g. PGCert and/or holding or working towards Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Knowledge, Skills & Experience
• • Evidence of success in attracting research grants/external funding and delivering on externally funded research projects
  • Experience of supervising dissertations and research projects
  • Demonstrate a broad understanding of effective approaches to teaching and learning support as key contributions to high quality student learning
  • Evidence or knowledge to support international activities
  • Evidence of a basic knowledge of the Higher Education context and regulatory framework
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality, diversity and inclusion. This might include - but is not limited to - evidence of work to advance gender equality, positive mental health, disability equality, anti-racism or tackling gender-based violence

Grade 8

• Qualifications
  
• • Higher Education teaching qualification or equivalent e.g. PGCert and/or holding an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and be working towards Fellowship
• Knowledge, Skills & Experience
• • Evidence of collaborative research with other institutions and interdisciplinary work
  • Demonstrates a thorough understanding of effective approaches to teaching and learning support as a key contribution to high quality student learning
  • Evidence of programme innovation and development
  • Evidence or knowledge to support international activities
  • Evidence or knowledge of the Higher Education context and regulatory framework
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality, diversity and inclusion. This might include - but is not limited to - evidence of work to advance gender equality, positive mental health, disability equality, anti-racism or tackling gender-based violence

Additional Information

Full time

Open ended

Grade 7: £37,999 - £45,163 p.a. or

Grade 8: £46,485 - £55,295 p.a.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Thursday 20 March 2025.

Interviews are expected to take place on Thursday 03 April 2025.

Expected start date is Thursday 01 May 2025 or by mutual agreement.

There is an expectation that work will be undertaken in the UK.

For the purposes of sponsorship, this is a postdoctoral role may be eligible depending on candidate circumstances under SOC code 2311.

The University has implemented the pay uplift for 2024/25 as confirmed by the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). This is being implemented in two stages - the first stage was effective from the 1 August 2024 and is reflected in the advertised salary, the second stage is effective from 1 March 2025 therefore salaries will increase in accordance with agreed rates.

The University of Stirling recognises that a diverse workforce benefits and enriches the work, learning and research experiences of the entire campus and greater community. We are committed to removing barriers and welcome applications from those who would contribute to further diversification of our staff and ensure that equality, diversity and inclusion is woven into the substance of the role. We strongly encourage applications from people from diverse backgrounds including gender, identity, race, age, class, and ethnicity.

Behaviours and Competencies

The role holder will be required to evidence that they can meet the qualities associated with the following behavioural competencies, as detailed within the AUA Competency Framework.

• Managing self and personal skills
  

Being aware of your own behaviour and mindful of how it impacts on others, enhancing personal skills to adapt professional practice accordingly.

• 2Delivering excellent service

Providing the best quality service to external and internal clients. Building genuine and open long-term relationships in order to drive up service standards.

• Finding solutions
  

Taking a holistic view and working enthusiastically to analyse problems and to develop workable solutions. Identifying opportunities for innovation.

• Embracing change
  

Being open to and engaging with new ideas and ways of working. Adjusting to unfamiliar situations, shifting demands and changing roles.

• Using resources effectively
  

Identifying and making the most productive use of resources including people, time, information, networks and budgets.

• Engaging with the wider context
  

Enhancing your contribution to the organisation through an understanding of the bigger picture and showing commitment to organisational values.

• Developing self and others
  

Showing commitment to own ongoing professional development. Supporting and encouraging others to develop their professional knowledge, skills and behaviours to enable them to reach their full potential.

• Working together
  

Working collaboratively with others in order to achieve objectives. Recognising and valuing the different contributions people bring to this process.

• Achieving Results
  

Consistently meeting agreed objectives and success criteria. Taking personal responsibility for getting things done.

About Us

Within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, our students have the desire to explore, to innovate and to create. One of the largest Faculties in the University, our subject areas are renowned for international and world leading research. Our work is well represented in national and international journals, at academic conferences around the world and in the media. We offer students a broad range of subjects to study in an exciting, research-led and highly interdisciplinary environment. Our teaching is regarded as innovative and the levels of student satisfaction are consistently high. A vibrant intellectual community is constantly enriched and renewed by the contribution of visiting scholars and practitioners. The Faculty encompasses four multidisciplinary divisions: Communications, Media and Culture; History, Heritage and Politics; Literature and Languages; and Law and Philosophy.

The Division

The Division of Communications, Media and Culture (CMC) at Stirling is an internationally renowned centre for research and teaching and consistently draws high ratings for its teaching across digital media, film and media, journalism and public relations. In the recent Research Excellence Framework assessment, we were ranked second in Scotland. Our students frequently win awards at major national and international competitions and many go on to become successful practitioners, entrepreneurs and executives in the media, creative and communications industries globally.

CMC research expertise spans the humanities, social sciences and management. We have long been recognised for our research in screen studies, creative industries, media and cultural policy and in recent years our research has increasingly focused on digital media and communications, storytelling, technologies and complex social issues. Our expansion strategy has seen the arrival of a group of talented new colleagues with diverse interests, including investigative journalism and analytics, the creative economy, design, animation, games and interactive media, music, digital publishing and media policy and regulation. The Division now offers a wide choice of options in taught postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, and in doctoral research, spanning digital media, film, media and sport, journalism, creative industries, cultural policy and political and promotional communications.

CMC is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to being an inclusive workplace. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from different backgrounds. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

The University

The University of Stirling is committed to providing education with a purpose and carrying out research which has a positive impact on communities across the globe – addressing real issues, providing solutions, and helping to shape society.

The University has 18,500+ students globally and employs 1,800 staff, with more than 140 nationalities represented on our scenic central Scotland campus. Our campus environment is ranked first in the UK and top three in the world, and our sports facilities rank first in the UK and top five in the world (International Student Barometer 2022, wave two), reflecting our long-standing designation as Scotland’s University for Sporting Excellence.

We were shortlisted for University of the Year 2024 at the Times Higher Education Awards and are proud holders of a Silver award from the Athena Swan Charter, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality. We have an overall five-star rating in the QS Stars University Ratings and are ranked top 30 in the UK for postgraduate teaching and learning (Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024). In recognition of our excellence in business education, we are accredited by AACSB International.

Eighty-seven per cent of our research has an outstanding or very considerable impact on society, with more than 80% rated either world leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework 2021), and we have twice been recognised with a Queen's Anniversary Prize; for our Institute for Social Marketing and Health (2014) and our Institute of Aquaculture (2019).

Alongside partners, the University spearheads the £214 million Stirling and Clackmannanshire City Region Deal – which will deliver three major University-led projects: the National Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Hub, Scotland’s International Environment Centre, and the Intergenerational Living Innovation Hub. We are also a central partner in the Forth Valley University College Health Partnership.

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