[Commlist] Job Vacancy: PostDoctoral Fellow in Media and Communications

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Job Vacancy: Post Doctoral Fellow in Media and Communications

Location:            Guildford, Surrey, UK

Salary: £37,386 gross per annum

Fixed Term post until 30/09/2025

Post Type:           Full Time

Closing Date:     23.59 hours BST on Sunday 21 May 2023

Reference:          017823

The Department of Sociology invites applications for a Post-doctoral 
Research Fellow in Media and Communications to join the Leverhulme News 
Use project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and led by Professor 
Ranjana Das as PI, and Dr Tom Roberts and Dr Emily Setty as Co-Is. The 
project explores the ways in which parents engage with the news, in 
relation to risks and crises, in digital and datafied societies.

Work on this two-year, fixed-term, full-time project will involve all 
aspects of the project including reviewing literature, designing data 
collection, collecting and analysing qualitative as well as quantitative 
data, writing up outputs for academic and non-academic publications, and 
work on public engagement and impact.

The successful candidate will have a doctorate in hand in Media and 
Communications, or closely related areas, with evidenced expertise in 
researching media and technology users and audiences. Methodological 
expertise will ideally include experience of survey research and/or 
quantitative methods, experience of qualitative data collection and 
analyses, and experience of news and/or audience research. The fellow 
will also have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work 
independently and as part of a team. The fellow should have familiarity 
with data analyses software packages for both quantitative and 
qualitative analyses.

The job advert is live here: 
https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=13199&forced=1 
<https://jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=13199&forced=1>

For information inquiries please contact Professor Ranjana Das on 
(r.das /at/ Surrey.ac.uk) <mailto:(r.das /at/ Surrey.ac.uk)>.

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