PhD Student in Media and Communication Studies with a specialization in Changing Journalistic Fields in Post-Soviet Spaces

Uppsala University is announcing a fully salaried PhD position in Media

and Communications based at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian

Studies (IRES). The PhD Student will have a supervisor at both

Department of Informatics and Media (Media & Communication Studies) as

well as at IRES.

We are seeking a candidate with well documented knowledge in media and

communication, a good overview of media and cultural sociological

theories and methods connected to the study of social actors (e.g.

interviews and/or surveys). The candidate should furthermore have a

strong interest in pursuing empirical research on structural changes in

journalistic fields in the post-Soviet space. Given the placement of

this post at IRES/UU, the candidates’ research projects should cover

contexts located in Russia and/or widely conceived post-Soviet space,

including Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and ideally consider those in

a cross-national or comparative perspective.

Deadline: June 9

Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media (https://www.uu.se/en/department/informatics-and-media) has a broad and interdisciplinary research profile based on research in the subjects Media- and Communication Studies, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems. Within Media and Communication Studies (MCS, https://www.uu.se/en/department/informatics-and-media/research/research-in-media-and-communication-studies), staff conducts research across a variety of types of communication and mediation in a number of global and local contexts. While our work spans many topics and approaches, it is linked by a profoundly interdisciplinary and critical approach. We study media and communication as fundamental in setting trajectories of contemporary social change as well defining conditions and challenges of human existence and work within both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social inquiry.

Uppsala University’s Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (https://www.uu.se/en/department/russian-and-eurasian-studies) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Russian and Eurasian Studies has been an established academic discipline at Uppsala University for almost fifty years and has a widely recognised, integrated multi-disciplinary long-term research program with an in-depth focus on recent developments in Russia, and in the wider post-Soviet region.