[ecrea] University of Bremen: Two professorships in Media and Communication Studies (Cultural Analyses and Methodological Innovation)

The University of Bremen, a mid-sized university with 250 professorships and 19,000 students, offers a broad range of disciplines and competes internationally in top-level research. With an ambitious institutional strategy the university was successful in the Excellence Initiative as one of eleven universities in Germany.

The university will now strengthen research and development by awarding temporary professorships in a number of defined dynamic areas. One of these areas is the main research field of “Media Change”, which investigates the communicative figurations of mediatized cultures and societies.


The University of Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies invites applicants for the following positions:


> > >  Professorship (W 2/Associate Professor) in Media and Communication Studies with the Special Area Cultural Analyses (temporary for five years)
Reference number P 692

Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research with a focus on comparative cultural analyses. The research can be oriented to national comparison but also different forms of transcultural comparison (for example in the fields of popular culture, media environments or social movements) and should be undertaken in a transmedial perspective. An engagement within the main research field “Media Change” within the Faculty of Cultural Studies and the acquisition of third-party funding are expected, as well as interdisciplinary research cooperation within the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its research group “Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds”. Teaching is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for Historic Journalism, Communication and Media Studies (IPKM) and should include beside various thematic modules courses in comparative media research. An interest in the increasing number of postgraduate
 programs is also expected.


> > >  Professorship (W 2/Associate Professor) in Media and Communication Studies with the Special Area Methodological Innovation (temporary for five years)
Reference number P 693

Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research with a special profile in methodological questions. Expected is expertise in quantitative as well as qualitative approaches of media and communication research and, in addition, an independent approach to the development of research methods. It is also expected that the successful candidate will exhibit engagement within the main research field “Media Change” within the Faculty of Cultural Studies and the acquisition of third-party funding, as well as interdisciplinary research cooperation within the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) and its research group “Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds”. Teaching is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for Historic Journalism, Communication and Media Studies (IPKM) and should include, beside various thematic modules, courses in methods of media and communication research. An interest in the increasing number o
f postgraduate courses is also expected.


In addition to the pre-conditions of civil service law, a relevant doctoral dissertation, as well as other relevant academic achievements of outstanding quality, evidenced, for instance, by a junior professorship or by a post-doctoral thesis. A further requirement is that the successful candidates can evidence their pedagogical-didactic suitability by documented teaching experience. Applicants are expected to have acquired teaching skills in the German language after a period of 3 years.

We expect a readiness to cooperate in research with other research areas within and outside the University of Bremen. We also expect the applicant’s readiness to acquire third-party funds as well as openness to innovations in teaching methods. Experience with media-supported forms of teaching is desirable as well as the readiness to consider gender aspects in research and teaching.

The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its diversity policies. We strive to increase the number of female researchers and particularly solicit applications from suitably qualified female candidates. International applications and applications on the part of academics with a migration background are explicitly welcome. Disabled persons with the same professional and personal qualifications will be given preference.
For further information please contact the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dr. Dr. Christoph Auffarth.

Please send your application including CV, teaching experience, and a list of publications by September 28, 2012, citing the reference number to:

Dean of Faculty 9 – Cultural Studies
Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. Christoph Auffarth
Universität Bremen
Postfach 330 440
28334 Bremen
Germany





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