[Commlist] Post doc fellowship - YouNDigital

https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/careers-opportunities/opportunities/522-post-doc-fellowship-youndigital-ptdc-com-out-0243-2021

Post doc fellowship - YouNDigital - PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021

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YouNDigital - PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021

NEW Annoucement

 Reference: Youth, News and Digital Citizenship/Jovens, Notícias e 
Cidadania Digital/YouNDigital - PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021

Scientific areas: PhD in  Communication Sciences - Social Sciences / 
other subareas of Communication Sciences.

Candidates with a PhD in the areas of Sociology of Communication and/or 
Education Sciences and media/technology are also eligible.

COFAC, Cooperativa de Animação e Formação Cultural crl, opens a call for 
a Post doc fellowship Research Scholarship in the scope of the project 
"Youth, News and Digital Citizenship/ Jovens, Notícias e Cidadania 
Digital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021)”. The project is financed through 
national funds in the budget of the Foundation for Science and 
Technology (FCT) - and developed in the research unit CICANT - Research 
Centre for Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (in 
Lusófona University, Porto).

YouNDigital aims to understand the attitudes and practices that young 
people have concerning news and digital citizenship. It is expected to 
get ,a better understanding of their news interests and needs, 
socialisation processes for news consumption either in the family, 
school, peer group context, and their experiences as "produsers” of 
news. This project is anchored in a participatory action-research 
approach combined with an initial online survey and a central focus on 
qualitative methods.

1 - Applicable legislation: Legal Regime of the Research Grant Holder 
Statute (Law no. 40/2004, of August 18, republished in annex to 
Decree-Law no. 202/2012, of August 27, and amended by Decree-Law no. 
123/2019, of August 28, which proceeds with the fourth amendment to the 
Research Grant Holder Statute); and Regulation no. 950/2019, of December 
16, which approves the FCT Research Grant Regulations - 2019 
(https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019.pdf ).

2 - Scientific Area - PhD in  Communication Sciences - Social Sciences / 
other subareas of Communication Sciences. Candidates with a PhD in the 
areas of Sociology of Communication  and/or Education Sciences and 
media/technology are also eligible.

3 - Principal Investigator: Maria José Brites

4 - Duration of the Fellowship: the fellowship will have a duration of 
12 months, and can be renewed up to a maximum of 36 months.

5 - Amount of the grant and method of payment: The monthly payment is 
1646€/month, in accordance with the table of values for grants awarded 
by FCT, I.P. (http://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/valores). The monthly 
payment of voluntary social insurance is also foreseen.

6 - Host institution: The candidate will work at Lusofona 
University/CICANT (Porto), where we offer a positive working environment 
and experience. Our facilities continue to develop and grow and the 
candidate will have access to quality conditions and digital equipment, 
and the opportunity to connect with a vivid and engaging research 
environment with junior and senior researchers.

7 - Research experience and skills - The fellow will work under the 
supervision of the PI Maria José Brites, the Co-PI, Teresa Sofia Castro, 
and the other project’s team members.
The candidate CV must evidence previous work that demonstrates the 
candidate is qualified to carry out activities to support the 
organisation, implementation, and technical-scientific development of 
the project, namely:
- To develop and implement activities related with literature review,
- To prepare and implement surveys and semi-structured interviews;
- To conduct qualitative research tasks, namely data analysis and 
validation;
- To ensure the management of digital research activities;
- To prepare training courses;
- To prepare and conduct dissemination and sustainability tasks;
- To develop field work and dissemination activities in Portuguese and 
in English.
- To help preparing publications to submit scientific journals, with 
peer reviewing, on media, young people, and digital citizenship;
- To collaborate in other publications in areas relevant to the project;
- Other tasks to support the project's development.

8 - Admission requirements: Applicants must meet the eligibility 
conditions set out in Articles 7 and 9 of the FCT I.P. Research Grant 
Regulations (2019) 
https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/docs/RegulamentoBolsasFCT2019DR.pdf
All individuals with a PhD in the areas of Communication Sciences - and 
other subareas of Communication Sciences are eligible to apply for this 
scholarship.
Preferential admission requirements. Preference will be given to 
candidates that demonstrate:
a) academic and professional experience skills in the areas of 
Communication Sciences, with special focus - at least partially - on 
youth and media/news, digital citizenship, youth activism, audience and 
reception studies, media literacy, and/or journalism;
b) academic and professional experience capacity in research network 
construction and the development or implementation of training activities;
c) academic and professional experience to have participated or lead 
European projects;
d) experience in dissemination activities directed to different 
audiences, and in creating dissemination products;
e) strong skills using research data analysis softwares (namely MaxQda 
and SPSS) and experience in qualitative and quantitative methodologies;
f) excellent knowledge of the Portuguese and English languages, both 
written and spoken, is required;
g) research autonomy, collaborative teamwork, deadlines fulfilment, and 
ethical skills.

9 - Application deadline and application submission: The call is open 
from February 4th to March  3rd, 2022 at 6pm WET. Applications and 
application support documents requested in the call must be submitted 
via email to (cicant /at/ ulusofona.pt), indicating in the email subject: 
“Youth, News and Digital Citizenship/Jovens, Notícias e Cidadania 
Digital” - PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021.
The applications must be accompanied by the following documents:
a) Detailed Curriculum Vitae clearly indicating how was acquired the 
knowledge and experience to meet the selection criteria by giving 
specific examples.
b) a motivational letter in Portuguese and in English;
c) documents proving that the candidate meets the required conditions 
for the type of scholarship to which he/she is applying for, namely 
qualification certificates with final average. In the case of academic 
degrees awarded by foreign higher education institutions, and in order 
to ensure the application of the principle of equal treatment to 
applicants holding foreign and national academic degrees, it is 
mandatory to recognize these degrees and convert the respective final 
classification to the Portuguese classification scale. The recognition 
of foreign degrees and diplomas and the conversion of the final 
classification into the Portuguese classification scale may be requested 
at any public higher education institution or at the Directorate-General 
for Higher Education (DGES, only in the case of automatic recognition). 
Regarding this matter, we suggest consulting the DGES portal at the 
following address: http://www.dges.gov.pt.; updated document proving the 
professional situation, indicating the nature of the contract and 
duties, which may be replaced by a sworn statement if there is no 
professional activity or provision of services;
d) other relevant documents for the candidate evaluation.
The required documentation described in the application submission 
section is mandatory. Only complete applications will be accepted and 
considered.

10 - Selection and evaluation procedure:
The selection will be based on the curricular evaluation (15 points) and 
interview (5 points), with a total value of 20 points. If the selected 
candidate drops out and there is another candidate on the final list 
with a score resulting from the curricular evaluation and interview 
equal to or higher than 15, the jury will proceed to select that 
candidate. In case of a tie in the first two positions, the candidates 
will be called for a second interview, with an evaluation between 0 and 
5 points. The score of this interview is added to the results of the 1st 
phase in order to select the final candidate.

 Evaluation criteria:

1 - Curriculum:
a) Integrated evaluation of the scientific production in areas related 
to YouNDigital:
- relevance of the publications to the area of the project;
- fulfilment of the requirements specified in "preferential admission 
requirements”;
- participation in scientific projects;
- other relevant professional/academic/research experience.

 b) evaluation of extension activities and dissemination of knowledge 
in areas related to YouNDigital:
- organisation of scientific events;
- participation in activities of communication and dissemination of science;
- presentation of oral communications in scientific events;
- organisation and/or delivery of training.

 c) motivation letter.

 2 - Interview
The evaluation subcriteria to be used will be as follows:
1. Curriculum: a) 50% + b) 40% + c) 10% = 0 to 15 points
2. Interview 100% = 0 to 5 points

11 - Composition of the Jury: President of the Jury PhD Maria José 
Brites; Effective Member: PhD Teresa Sofia Castro; Effective Member: PhD 
Carla Cerqueira; Substitute Member: PhD Célia Quico.

12 - Publication and notification of the results: candidates will be 
notified of the results of the competition via email and the ordered 
list of candidates will be posted on the CICANT website 
(https://cicant.ulusofona.pt/careers/).

13 - The candidates will be excluded in the following cases:
1) applications sent by other means or extemporaneously will not be 
accepted;
2) application not submitted properly or not presenting the requested 
documents to prove a), b) and c);
3) making false declarations
4) application not in accordance with R2 profile as defined in Euraxess 
 Researchers referencial.

The jury may request more information or documents to validate the 
information submitted by the candidate.

14 - Policy of non-discrimination and equal access: CICANT actively 
promotes a policy of non-discrimination and equal access, whereby no 
candidate may be privileged, benefited, disadvantaged or deprived of any 
right or exempted from any duty on the grounds of, inter alia, ancestry, 
age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, family situation, 
economic situation, education, origin or social condition, genetic 
heritage, reduced work capacity, disability, chronic illness, 
nationality, ethnic origin or race, territory of origin, language, 
religion, political or ideological convictions and trade union membership.
Contacts

Campo Grande, 376
1749-024 Lisboa – Portugal
Edifício F – Sala F.1.13

+351 217 515 583
(cicant /at/ ulusofona.pt)
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