[Commlist] Funded PhD Position in Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne commencing 2021

   Expressions of Interest are invited for a PhD scholarship associated 
with the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘*Digital 
photography: mediation, memory and visual communication’* led by 
Professor Scott McQuire at the University of Melbourne. This is an 
opportunity to work closely with a senior team of researchers including 
Professor McQuire, Professor Nikos Papastergiadis and Professor Sean 
Cubitt (University of Melbourne), Professor Daniel Palmer (RMIT) and 
Professor Celia Lury (Warwick). The position is full time and the 
successful applicant will pursue an independent PhD research project 
aligned with the larger ARC project under the supervision of *Professor 
McQuire.*

We are seeking a highly motivated student with demonstrable research 
skills and academic experience to undertake a project on the topic of 
‘Networked Digital Photography and Memory’. This is conceived as a 
discrete project focusing on material-semiotic analysis of a corpus of 
digital photographs gathered from research participants in the course of 
the project. The student will be expected to contribute to fieldwork 
research into everyday photographic practices, and will receive training 
in participant observation, interview and photo-elicitation to assist 
the project’s investigation of the ways in which digital photographs 
support new modes of mediated communication, social encounter and 
remembrance.

Applications are sought from those with relevant academic qualifications 
and expertise in one or more of the following fields: photographic 
theory, media and communications, visual culture, visual ethnography, 
cultural studies.

The scholarship offers 100% fee offset and a living allowance of $31,200 
per year pro rate (2020 full time study date) for to 3.5 years. 
Applicant for this scholarship must meet the entry Requirements for the 
Doctor of Philosophy in Arts (full details can be found on the Doctor of 
Philosophy - Arts 
<https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/doctor-of-philosophy-arts/> 
web pages) and have received a minimum result of first-class Honours in 
their qualifying degree. Meeting the University's English language 
requirements is essential.

*Enquiries:* Email Professor Scott McQuire <mailto:(mcquire /at/ unimelb.edu.au)>


      Deadline

Deadline for Expression Interest is *15 July 2020*


https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/funded-phd-position-in-media-and-communications-commencing-in-2021


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