The QUT Digital Media Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia is now calling for applicants for four Postdoctoral Research Associate jobs (more details at https://bit.ly/laureateteam). These five-year, full-time jobs will be part of the team of Prof. Axel Bruns's Australian Laureate Fellowship, a major research project that investigates the drivers and dynamics of partisanship and polarisation in online communication. The project will develop new approaches to assessing a number of key dimensions of polarisation: in the journalistic content produced by different news outlets; in the audiences accessing and engaging with such content; in public debates, on social media platforms and elsewhere, about specific current issues; and in the networks of interconnection and interaction on and across social media platforms. (More information about the project is available at https://snurb.info/laureate.)
For this research, we are looking for excellent Postdocs with expertise in one of more of the following research areas: journalism studies, media and communication studies, political science, social media analytics, computational social science, computational discourse analysis, social network analysis, issue mapping. The project takes an internationally comparative perspective, so we are also explicitly interested in applicants from outside of Australia. (COVID-related travel restrictions should no longer be an issue by the time these jobs commence.)
Applications for these positions are now open, and close on 30 January 2022; travel and visa processes permitting, the Postdocs should commence in mid-2022. A detailed position description with more details about these jobs is attached to this post, and more information about the application process are available from https://bit.ly/laureateteam. I would also be very happy to speak to any prospective candidates ahead of their applications, to discuss their suitability for these positions. I'm away on annual leave in early December, but will respond to any enquiries in the week before Christmas and during January.
We would be extremely grateful if you could pass this on to anyone in your network who might be interested in these positions (or knows people who would be).
Early next year we will also advertise the first four PhD scholarships related to this project, with applications closing in March and the PhD projects commencing in mid-2022. We will have more details about those PhD opportunities then, but any prospective PhD students who may be interested in those scholarships are welcome to get in touch already. There's a little more information about these at https://snurb.info/laureate, too.
For more detail about the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, see: https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/.
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Prof. Axel Bruns
Australian Laureate Fellow
Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Brisbane, Australia
a.bruns@qut.edu.au------------------------------