MDCEE Visiting Fellowships 2011-13

Deadline: 1 October 2012
Open to: All interested
Fellowship:  A stipend to meet living costs in Oxford

Description

Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (MDCEE), is an interdisciplinary research project launched in October 2009 and is funded by the European Research Council.
The project aims to investigate the often troublesome and poorly understood relationship between democracy and the media in Central and Eastern Europe, but the findings should be more broadly applicable to consolidating democracies worldwide.
Applications are invited for short-term Visiting Fellowships for the academic years 2011-12 and 2012-13.

Fellowship

Successful applicants will work with the project on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, which is sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC). Visiting Fellows will either help to collect and process empirical data from the region, or will focus on broader theoretical questions related to the project’s main theme. The project aims to establish what kind of democracy is needed for media to perform its agreed-upon normative functions. Our focus is on news media, including both “old media” (broadcast and print) and the “new media” of the Internet. The major research areas are:

• Media ownership and commercial pressures
• Media regulation and political pressures
• Journalistic autonomy and professionalisation

Visiting Fellows will be expected to live in Oxford for a period of either one or two terms (three or six-months) between October and March each year. They will be expected to take an active part in various academic events organized within the project and to prepare for publication the findings of their work in Oxford.
Fellows will be based at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and will be members of the University’s Department of Politics and International Relations during their stay.

Eligibility

All interested candidates are eligible to apply. A good spoken and written knowledge of English is essential, and the Fellowships carry a stipend to meet living costs in Oxford.

Application

Applications, including a CV, a two-page outline research proposal, your preferred period of tenure and the names and contact details of two referees, should be sent to:
Project Administrator
E-mail: mdcee@politics.ox.ac.uk
Deadline for applications is up to the beginning of October 2012.  There are no closing dates for the submission of an application and all applications will be acknowledged on receipt.
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