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[ecrea] Professor in Media and Communication Studies, CFP 21/2010 at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Fri Feb 19 15:35:34 GMT 2010




Professor in Media and Communication Studies, CFP 21/2010 at the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences




There is a vacant professorship in Media and Communication Studies, at Örebro University, Sweden

General information
Media and Communication at Örebro University is a social sciences and humanities oriented department, with extensive research activities and a strong international profile. Media and Communication studies consists of four professors, five associate professors, eight senior lecturers/associate senior lecturers, four lecturers and 18 doctoral students. The undergraduate level of the education has several different specialisations and courses: media and communication, digital media design, cinema studies, public relations, global and political journalism and international communication. At present, research is mainly conducted within the following areas: war journalism; media and climate change; media talk and interaction; language and politics; PR and political communication; risk and crisis communication; media, ethnicity and transnational relations; cinema and visual culture in politics and society; youth, media and civic engagement. In research and in postgraduate studies the department has a close collaboration with for example rhetoric, the Swedish language, sociology, informatics and political science.

Duties
The professor shall pursue research, supervise doctoral students, and teach at undergraduate and Master?s level education, as well at the postgraduate (doctoral) level. The professors have a special responsibility of managing and further develop and strengthen the research activities at the department, in general and within their special fields of research. Duties also include responsibility for the quality of the postgraduate (doctoral) studies, and the discipline?s internal and external forms of cooperation.



Qualifications




A person who has demonstrated both academic and teaching skills in the discipline in question shall be qualified for appointment as a professor.


Assessment Grounds for Appointment
Assessment for the appointment as professor shall be based mainly on scientific merit and competence in one or a few of the central areas within Media and Communication Studies. Much attention is also paid to the assessment of teaching skills and the extent in which a candidate possesses skills in developing and managing research and education activities. Regard shall also be paid to the degree in which a candidate possesses skills in administration and aptitude in interacting with the surrounding community and informing people about research projects.

Since most of the professors at Örebro University are male, female applicants will be given precedence when qualifications are found to be equal.



Miscellaneous

The appointment is open-ended and the work place is situated in Örebro. Individualised salary is applied. Further details can be given by Professor Mats Ekström, phone +46 (0) 19 30 30 44, (mats.ekstrom /at/ oru.se)

Trade-union representatives are Owe L Johansson, (SACO), Odd Johansson, (SEKO) and Magnus Furuholm, (TCO). They can all be reached through the switchboard, phone +46 (0) 19 30 30 00.

Enclosed with the application, marked with ref. no. CFP 21/2010, submit curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, a written account and documentation for the research and teaching skills (see instructions in the pedagogical portfolio at www.oru.se/ledigajobb) and the academic journals that are referred to (maximum ten works). Submit all application papers in four identical/compiled sets. Send the application to Registrator, Örebro universitet, 701 82 Örebro at the latest the 12 April 2010.

If you send your application by e-mail (to the Records Office Registrator (info /at/ oru.se)) please send it no later than on the last day of application. If necessary, supplementary documents can be sent in later.

According to The National Archives' (Riksarkivets) regulations we have to keep one set of application papers on file for two years after the appointment has gained legal force.


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