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Associate senior lecturer in media and communication studies with specialisation in public commitment to digital journalism

Background
The Department of Geography, Media and Communication is recruiting an associate senior lecturer[MG1]  in media and communication studies. The department comprises the subjects media and communication studies, film studies, human geography and tourism studies, and offers bachelor-level courses as part of several programmes as well as master-level programmes.

Media and communication studies, which forms part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, offers an attractive research and teaching environment. Boundary-crossing contacts and global perspectives form naturally part of our work. Most of our bachelor-level education is offered as part of two large programmes: Public Relations and Media and Communication. The second of these is offered with two tracks: Visual Communication Design and the completely new track Digital Media and Analysis, which focuses on theoretical and practical analysis of media content and media use in digital environments, such as mobile and social media.

Research in media and communication studies is conducted in two profiled research groups at the department: the Geomedia research group (http://www.kau.se/geomedia/) and NODE (the Ander Centre for Research on News and Opinion in the Digital Era, http://www.kau.se/node/). Geomedia has recently been designated a strong research group in an internal research excellence initiative and brings together media scholars, human geographers, tourism scholars and film scholars. Research done in Geomedia is located at the intersection between media and geography and focuses on issues such as mediatisation and space, in a broad sense. NODE focuses on developments in news reporting and the formation of opinions at a time characterised by a weakened daily press and increasingly fragmented media landscape. Geomedia and NODE researchers regularly publish in international journals and are successful in securing external research funding.

More information on the university is available at https://www.kau.se/ and on the subject at http://www.kau.se/media.

Duties
The successful applicant will primarily teach courses offered as part of these programmes, standalone courses and commissioned courses, if applicable. Teaching, supervision, assessment, course coordination and course development are included in the position, as is active participation in the development work done at the subject and department in relation to teaching and community cooperation. Teaching and administrative duties comprise 50% of the position, while the remaining 50% is dedicated to research.

Qualification requirements
The eligibility requirements for appointment as associate senior lecturer is a doctorate or equivalent research expertise in media and communication studies or a related area relevant to the advertised specialisation. Preference should be given to those who were awarded a doctorate or attained equivalent research competence no more than five years prior to the application deadline. Under special circumstances, applications may still be considered if the doctorate or equivalent competence was attained earlier, for example for reasons such as illness, parental leave or similar.

Assessment criteria
Special weight is given to experience of studying news organisations and processes connected to social change and the digitalisation of journalism. This specifically includes how actors in the field establish, understand, maintain and further develop relations to and with the public. This position specialises in the public’s commitment to digital journalism and therefore it is particularly important that applicants have done prior research in this area. Since the position involves teaching in both Swedish and English, special weight is also given to good knowledge of these two languages.

Considerable weight is given to participation in national and international networks.

Considerable weight is further given to publications in international peer-reviewed journals relevant to research in news media and journalism.

Weight is given to ability to cooperate and take own initiative.

It is further considered an advantage for the position if applicants have

• Experience of developing and managing activities,
• Teaching experience at both master and bachelor level,
• International experience and experience of teaching in Swedish and English,
• Experience of course development and web-based teaching,
• Experience of cooperation with the community.

Terms of employment
Appointment is contingent upon necessary funding allocation decisions. This is a full-time, fixed-term position limited to 48 months (4 years) from the starting date. The starting date is 1 February 2019, or as per agreement.

Conditions for promotion to senior lecturer
An associate senior lecturer employed at a higher education institution shall upon application be promoted to senior lecturer at the institution, provided that the qualification requirements for appointment as senior lecturer are fulfilled and that the applicant upon review is deemed suitable for such an appointment, according to the assessment criteria the higher education institution has decided to apply for promotion to senior lecturer. Such promotion results in non-fixed-term appointment as senior lecturer.

The eligibility requirements for appointment as senior lecturer is a doctorate in media and communication studies or a related area relevant to the advertised specialisation, a higher education teaching qualification or an equivalent qualification obtained otherwise as well as documented teaching expertise.

For other qualification requirements, see Ch. 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance, as well as Karlstad University’s regulations for the appointment and promotion of teaching staff.

Application
Applications are made electronically via the university’s web-based recruitment tool Varbi and should include:

• CV and contact details of two references
• Descriptive account of teaching and research skills
• Higher education teaching certificate or account of equivalent qualifications
• Account of other experience, experience of leadership, cooperation and administration
• Future teaching and research plans
• List of publications (indicate your own role in cases of co-authorship)
• Copies of certificates and degrees referred to
• A maximum of ten academic publications and a maximum of five works designed to convey knowledge, such as textbooks, educational software, or popular science articles.

Documents and publications should be attached to the electronic application (do not provide links only). Applicants are responsible for documenting qualifications in a way that allows for an objective and qualitative assessment of candidates, and for submitting a complete application in accordance with the advertisement before the deadline.

More information is available in the document “Application Guidelines” on our homepage “Vacancies” where you will also find Karlstad University’s regulations for the appointment and promotion of teaching staff.

Three copies of each document that cannot be submitted electronically should be sent to:

Karlstad university
Registrator
65188 KARLSTAD

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We look forward to receiving your application

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