[ecrea] PhD scholarship opportunities - department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield - UK

We are currently advertising availability to join our thriving PhD 
community in the department of Journalism Studies at the University of 
Sheffield.
We have scholarships available for a limited number of high calibre 
students. I’d be grateful if you could draw the attention of any 
suitable candidates to this opportunity.

The areas in which we are looking to recruit map onto current staff 
research interest and expertise.

1)  Public and media discourses on footballers’ public selves.

The very public debate surrounding the convicted rapist Ched Evans and 
whether or not he should be permitted to resume his career as a 
professional footballer has generated discussion on range of complex 
issues: from the nature of rehabilitation and scope of punishment to the 
boundaries between public and private morality. The case has also 
brought to the surface unsettling discourses on wider understanding of 
rape and the rights of victims of sexual violence. It has likewise 
generated significant noise on social media, with critics of his former 
club’s decision to allow him to train with the team, receiving 
significant abuse and even threats of violence. British football has 
long been a site where debates about nation, race, masculinity and 
gender have never been far from the surface. This study analyses 
football and its mediation as the focal point around which important 
debates about sexism, racism, homophobia and even the meaning and scope 
of crime and punishment are taking place. It also draws on the role of 
social media in echoing sometimes disturbing discourses on rape and 
sexual violence and contributes to a wider debate on hate speech and the 
boundaries of public discussion.

2) Approaches to war correspondents' perceptions of risk and the 
changing nature of warfare.

3) Any aspect of British national newspaper culture in the 
twentieth/twenty first centuries with particular emphasis on tabloids, 
popular culture or representation of outsider groups.

Interested applicants should contact (jnlresearch /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) in the 
first instance with an initial proposal which maps onto any of these 
three themes.


Best wishes,

Martin


"When all think alike, no one thinks very much" – Walter Lippmann

Professor M.D. Conboy FRHistS
Professor of Journalism History
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Journalism Studies
University of Sheffield
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 DT
UK
0114 222 2505



For the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History please go to:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/journalismhistory





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