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[ecrea] 4 PhD Candidates in Media & Culture

Thu Apr 21 12:46:32 GMT 2016






Deadline approaching: Job – 4 PhD Candidates in Media & Culture

We are looking for four highly motivated PhD Candidates who wish to conduct their PhD research in the context of a collaborative research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) on ‘Worlds of Imagination: A Comparative Study of Film Tourism in India, Nigeria, Jamaica, South Korea and the United Kingdom’.

A Master’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences is a must, as well as wide-ranging knowledge of and affinity for the sociology of media and culture and qualitative methods of social science research. In addition to an understanding of the latest developments in the field, the candidate must possess didactic skills and an affinity for working with students. Candidates who take a proven interest in the field of film tourism and have profound knowledge of the language and culture of one the respective countries are preferred.

Employment starts September 1, 2016. The initial contract will be running for a term of 1,5 years, which - depending on performance – will be extended with a second term of 3,5 years. The conditions of employment correspond with the “CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten” (CAO NU). For the job of PhD Candidate the salary amounts to a maximum of € 2.779,- (grade P) gross per month on a 38 hour per week contract. The EUR has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8.0%, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% and 41 annual vacation days in case of a full workweek.

Application deadline is April 25, 2016. For more information on the project, the requirements and expectations, and how to apply, please visit www.academictransfer.com/32730 (https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/EUR/vacancy/32730/lang/en/)

Project description:

This project focuses on film tourism: the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular films or TV series. Recent years have seen a dramatic, worldwide increase of this type of tourism, with far-reaching implications for the experience and organization of landscapes. The principal question underlying this project is: why, under what conditions and in which ways do films and TV series give rise to new and diverse tourism flows across the globe?

This question is addressed by analysing and comparing film tourism in five geographically and culturally different contexts: South Korea, Nigeria, Jamaica, India and the UK. These five cases will be subjected to the same lines of inquiry, focusing on 1) the visual traditions in the local media cultures; 2) the drivers and impacts of local policies aimed at developing film tourism; 3) the commonalities and differences in motives and experiences of film tourists with diverse backgrounds. The research is based on a combination of qualitative content analysis and ethnographic fieldwork

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