[ecrea] ESRC PhD Studentship at the University of Sheffield

Deadline is approaching for this funded PhD studentship opportunity -
*21 May 2015*

The Department of Journalism Studies is now advertising a funded ESRC
White Rose DTC <http://www.wrdtc.ac.uk/> Network Studentship based at
the University of Sheffield. Applications are invited for a PhD
studentship entitled 'The design and structure of Journalism Safety
Trends (JSTs) data sets as indicators of the safety and risk to the
practice of free journalism in hostile environments'. The constraints of
such environments may apply at national and regional levels, and are
potentially indicators of the broader status of media freedom, democracy
and development in nations.

This PhD studentship is a collaboration between the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
<http://www.unesco.org/> (UNESCO) based in Paris and the Centre for
Freedom of the Media <http://www.cfom.org/> (CFOM) at the University of
Sheffield. The project focuses on the design and structure of Journalism
Safety Trends data sets (JSTs), which identify hostile environments
inimical to free journalism at the national and regional level.

It is based on the recognition that there is a need to investigate the
extent to which the safety of journalists is an indicator of other
democratic and development trends in a society. Its specific focus will
be to investigate whether there are any correlations between trends in
the safety of journalists and indicators related to freedom of
expression, media freedom, democracy, good governance and national and
regional fragility.

The successful student will undertake a three-month secondment at UNESCO
in Paris during the first year of the PhD.

For more information and how to apply please visit
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism/research/phd/studentship

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Dr Lada T Price
Department of Journalism Studies
University of Sheffield
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 4DT

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/journalism

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