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

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.