[ecrea] Call for applications for Google Digital News Senior Visiting Research Fellowship

*Call for applications for Google Digital News Senior Visiting Research 
Fellowship*

The Reuters Institute is seeking applications from leading researchers 
who would like to spend either 6 or 12 months of the academic year 
2017-2018 with our research team as a Google Digital News Senior 
Visiting Research Fellow, based at the Reuters Institute for the Study 
of Journalism at the University of Oxford. Both full and part time 
applicants will be considered.

This fellowship will provide a generous monthly stipend to cover all 
accommodation and living expenses whilst in Oxford, as well as research 
support for the full period, starting in either October 2017 or January 
2018 depending on the duration of the fellowship. It is aimed at a 
high-profile and high-impact researcher resident in one of the 
continental European countries which will be covered in the 2017 Reuters 
Institute Digital News Report <http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/> 
namely; Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark,  Finland, 
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, 
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

The fellowship will appeal to a researcher who is excited by this 
opportunity to be part of a large, international, and collaborative team 
working on how digital media and journalism are changing across Europe 
and who is keen to help us advance both academic and 
industry/professional discussions.

We are seeking to appoint an individual who brings their own perspective 
and expertise to our team, who has a clear set of research objectives 
focused on digital news and aligned with institute’s mission of 
connecting rigorous academic research with the issues confronting 
journalism around the world today, and who will work with us to produce 
relevant outputs during the stay in Oxford.

The Google Digital News Senior Visiting Research Fellowship is open to 
qualified applicants from the social sciences (including journalism 
studies, media/communication research, sociology, or political science) 
as well as from computer science, e-research and information science.

Applications will be assessed on the basis of three main criteria:

·The quality of the professional achievements and academic impact of the 
researcher given the stage in their career

·Their potential and interest in being part of an international research 
team and of contributing to and making best use of the opportunity 
presented by the fellowship

·The quality of their detailed research proposal and their proposed 
ideas on what relevant outputs will be produced during their stay in 
Oxford of relevance to both academics and industry professionals eager 
to understand digital media, news, and journalism today.

The application should include (1) a CV with a list of publications of 
no more than 4 pages A4 in total (2) a research proposal with clear 
research questions as well as a research approach and planned output of 
no more than 4 pages A4, and (3) a letter of application of no more than 
2 pages A4 explaining how the candidate and the proposed project is 
aligned with our work.

For further information about the Reuters Institute for the Study of 
Journalism please go to http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/

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*The deadline for applications is 12pm (GMT) Monday 12^th December 2016 *

The successful candidate will be notified by Friday 13^th January 2017

Please send your application and enquiries to 
(Rebecca.edwards /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Rebecca.edwards /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)>, Digital News Project 
Administrator.

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