[ecrea] 4 PhD Candidates in Media & Culture

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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