[Commlist] Job: New postdoc at Loughborough - Understanding the Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on Private Social Media

We are recruiting a full-time postdoctoral researcher, funded for three 
years as part of a new Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant here at 
Loughborough: “Understanding the Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on 
Private Social Media.”

*Full ad and details at this link:*

*https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=167390JXpk&WVID=5913100PrZ&LANG=USA 
<https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=167390JXpk&WVID=5913100PrZ&LANG=USA>*

The position commences March 1, 2021. Closing date for applications is 
December 21, 2020.

Andrew Chadwick's happy to answer informal queries by 
email:(a.chadwick /at/ lboro.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.chadwick /at/ lboro.ac.uk)>



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Job title
    Research Associate
Job reference
    REQ200769
Date posted
    02/11/2020
Application closing date
    21/12/2020
Location
    Loughborough
Package
    Specialist and Supporting Academic Grade 6 from £34,804 - £35,845 
per annum. Subject to annual pay award.
Job description

    Social Sciences & Humanities - Communication and Media Studies



    Fixed-Term from 1 March 2021 - 31 January 2024 in the First Instance



    The Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) at Loughborough University is 
seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral 
researcher to work with Professor Andrew Chadwick and Professor Cristian 
Vaccari on a new, Leverhulme-funded, research project, Understanding the 
Everyday Sharing of Misinformation on Private Social Media.



    Developments over recent years, including the global Coronavirus 
pandemic, indicate that addressing the problem of online misinformation 
requires much richer and contextual understandings of why people share 
false and misleading information. Digital platform affordances, 
technologically mediated and face-to-face social networks, local, 
national, and international media, political and cultural elites, and 
community and family structures all play a role in shaping how false and 
misleading information circulates. Understanding these factors is a key 
challenge for societies.



    This is an exciting postdoctoral research role. The researcher’s 
main responsibilities will be to contribute to project management; 
gather, organize, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data; arrange 
events and meetings relating to research online and/or in person; and 
contribute to the dissemination of the research in academic publications 
and public reports. Qualitative skills, including experience of in-depth 
interviews (online and/or in person), focus groups (online and/or in 
person), and open thematic coding of these sources of data are 
essential. Some experience of using Nvivo or similar will be an 
advantage. Quantitative skills, including knowledge of multivariate 
statistical analysis and random assignment survey experiment design, are 
essential. Some experience of using R will be an advantage. Familiarity 
with basic concepts and methods of social network analysis will also be 
desirable but not essential.



    The successful applicant will be an experienced researcher with 
PhD-level social science training in either communication and media, 
political science, sociology, social psychology, or a cognate discipline 
or interdisciplinary field, such as behavioural science. They will be a 
team player, have excellent writing, presentational, and time management 
skills, be highly technologically literate, and be committed to the 
development of original social science theory and concepts.



    The successful candidate will primarily work with Professor Andrew 
Chadwick (Principal Investigator) and Professor Cristian Vaccari 
(Co-Investigator). They will also collaborate with the PhD student who 
will also be funded by the project and with the project’s International 
Advisory Board. Applicants should hold, or be very close to being 
awarded, their PhD.



    In the latest UK Research Excellence Framework (2014), 
Communication and Media at Loughborough was ranked 2nd in the UK for 
research intensity, with 90% of its research “world leading” or 
“internationally excellent.” It was ranked Top in the UK in the Times 
Good University Guide in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and Top in the UK 
in the Complete University Guide for 2021.



    Informal enquiries may be made by email to Professor Andrew 
Chadwick, director, Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C), Communication and 
Media, Loughborough University via email at (a.chadwick /at/ lboro.ac.uk)



    Application Closing Date: 21 December 2020 (midday)



    It is expected that interviews (including presentation) will take 
place during the week commencing 25 January
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