[ecrea] Call for Conference MeCCSA PGN

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network is delighted to announce the incoming CFP for MeCCSA PGN 2015 Annual Conference that will take place on 7th – 9th January 2015 at Northumbria University.
The theme for the conference is ‘Generations’ and we are keen to encourage a Postgraduate Network to participate in PGN panel.

'Generations’, will provide participants with the opportunity to reflect upon historical and contemporary shifts in academic environments, theories, research approaches and trends, professional practice and the various ways in which the concept of generation/s informs diverse media and communication genres.

Confirmed plenary speakers: Professor Karen Boyle, Dr Ian Brown, Professor Bob Franklin, Dr Paulo Gerbaudo, Dr Donna Leishman, Professor Dafna Lemish, Professor Lynn Segal, Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido


We therefore welcome contributions on the role of the early career academic today, and the difficulties associated with starting an academic career and making the transition from student to staff member in the current academic environment.


Topics may include but are not limited to:

- comparative or historical accounts of the idea of the early career academic
- empirical research into the length of the early career period or changing perceptions of employment prospects
- the precarity of academic labour
- changing values: auditing, impact, neoliberalism and the entrepreneurial academic
- the use of social media and the rise of the self-tweeting academic
- the pressure to publish and publishing debates (online/offline, commercial/open access, academic/non-academic)
- pedagogical issues and teaching requirements
- networking issues
- funding issues
- the importance of regional, national and international conferences
- the 'building up' of an academic CV
- training and the extent to which postgraduates are prepared for an academic career


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please send abstracts, including your name, institution, year of stage, no longer than 250 words, to Yupei Zhao ((yz134 /at/ le.ac.uk)) before Friday 15th August 2014.

Thank you and please do circulate if you can!

MeCCSA PGN Committee

Yupei Zhao
Seema Hussain
Simon Dawes
Sara Marino
Clarie Sedgwick
Tianyang Zhou



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