[ecrea] Research Group Leader – Vacancy in Media Studies in Prague - Charles University

*Research Group Leader – Vacancy in Media Studies in Prague*

The Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social 
Science, Charles University in Prague seeks a research fellow to be a 
leader of its newly founded research group. The contract is full time 
and no teaching is included. The research fellow will coordinate the 
group of app. 5 researchers working on topics related to the 
transformation of political communications through new media and popular 
culture. The research fellow will be responsible for consolidation of 
the research strategy of the group including the plan for generation of 
high-level publications and Czech and European grant submissions. Not 
last, the research fellow will also conduct his/her own research and 
publish the results. As concerns the research output, minimal 
requirements are: the publication of one article in an international 
peer-reviewed journal indexed by Scopus (or higher) and one valuable 
out-of-journal publication (e.g. book or book chapter published with 
excellent academic publisher) per year.

Formal Requirements:

- PhD degree in social sciences (or humanities)

- The PhD degree was preferably obtained before 2009

- managerial experience and the ability to coordinate a research group

- experience with publishing in world-class publications – at least one 
article published in an impacted journal as first and only author

- experience in the submission of research projects on the European 
level (ERC, ESF, COST) or the level of national research councils

- excellent academic writing skills in English, A-level English

If you are interested in the position of research fellow, please send an 
application letter, your academic CV and list of publications to the 
institute’s research coordinator Irena Carpentier Reifova: 
(reifova /at/ seznam.cz). We are awaiting your application letters until 
September, 30, 2012. We will appreciate a preliminary, non-obligatory 
notice of your interest prior to this date.