[ecrea] Chair/Reader Post in Communications/Media at Brunel University London

Chair/Reader in Communications/Media Studies
Brunel University -Department of Sociology and Communications

School of Social Sciences

Vacancy Ref: CLA0083-1

Competitive salary offered

Brunel University welcomes applications for a Chair / Reader in 
Communications/Media Studies. The successful candidate will have an 
outstanding research and publications profile and should demonstrate the 
capacity or potential to secure externally-funded research grants. The 
appointed person will make a substantial contribution to research in 
Communications and Media Studies and will undertake teaching at 
undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels. An interest in digital and 
internet research methods would be welcomed. The successful candidate 
will help develop our Masters’ programmes in Media and Communications.

The Department of Sociology and Communications is broad-based, hosting 
three research centres: the Centre for Culture, Media and Regulation 
(CCMR), the Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) and the Centre for 
Biomedicine and Society (CBAS). It currently has 13 permanent academic 
staff. In the last research assessment exercise, 85% of its research was 
deemed to be of international quality. The Department is part of the 
School of Social Sciences, which also offers teaching and research 
programmes in Anthropology, Economics, Finance, History, Politics and 
Psychology.

The University has made significant investment in Sociology and 
Communications and this post represents its continuing commitment to 
supporting further development. The successful candidate will have the 
opportunity to lead an already successful MSc and to develop the 
Department’s strategy for the future.

Information about the Department and its activities can be found at: 
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology

Head of Department, Professor Clive Seale email: 
(clive.seale /at/ brunel.ac.uk); Telephone (Direct Line): +44 (0)1895-267139

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 16th October 2013











Dr Lesley Henderson

Director, Centre for Culture, Media and Regulation

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology/research/ccmr

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/sociology/staff-profiles/lesley-henderson

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