Fixed-Term Teaching Opportunity in Journalism
Committed to research and teaching excellence and passionate about the arts, design and media, Coventry School of Art and Design is a vibrant community of scholars, researchers and practitioners with profile across the globe and a heritage of quality built up over 150 years. The School was successful in the last RAE, which acknowledged world-leading research in all departments; 60% of research in the School was judged at least internationally excellent.
The Department of Media has a long-sustained reputation for innovation and enjoys a rising profile. It has established a highly distinctive 'Open Media' approach towards its teaching, research and professional practice and offers exciting undergraduate and postgraduate courses covering media and communications, journalism, media production and photography.
This opportunity is for a proactive individual who can demonstrate an ability to make a distinctive contribution to our research, practice and teaching in the fields of global /international journalism, global media and communications and new media and democratisation in international context.
An opportunity has arisen for a fixed-term teaching staff in Journalism to cover a 17-month research secondment to another UK HEI, from November 2012 to April 2014.
Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 22 October 2012. The successful candidate must be able to take up the post on, or very shortly after, 12 November 2012.
The post-holder should have specific interests in the following areas: i) Global/international journalism practice - especially events and subjects of global interest or from a global perspective for a national and/or global outlet; ii) journalism and media/communication theories/concepts, themes/issues/controversies/ethics in journalism; media and communication research methods, especially familiarity with textual analysis methods; and iii) journalism-society relations and tensions globally with a particular focus on new media and the developing-world regions such as Africa.
Duties include: delivery of lectures and seminars; individual and group tutorials at BA and MA levels; module leadership; student assessment; contribution to course development. The post-holder will be a key member of our Specialist Journalism MA programme and will also contribute to our Communication, Culture and Media MA, so should preferably have a PhD in a relevant discipline. Evidence of interest in the impact of information and communication technologies in journalism/communication and on society would be an advantage as would experience of project/dissertation supervision.
For informal enquiries, please phone the Head of Department of Media, Dr Shaun Hides on 07974984109 or 02476 887155
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