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Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Goldsmiths, University of London - Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Location: London, New Cross
Salary: £44,028 to £48,944
Hours: Part Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 11th November 2024
Closes: 15th November 2024
Job Ref: 572779

Goldsmiths’ Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies is one of the longest established departments for teaching and researching media in the world. Housed in the award-winning Professor Stuart Hall Building, it has an internationally outstanding reputation for creative and radical thinking and practice. We are committed to a vibrant teaching and research programme that combines theory and practice with interdisciplinary engagement with the latest developments in media, communications and cultural studies. The Department is currently ranked 11th in the world (and 2nd in the UK) for communication and media studies (QS World Rankings by subject 2023) and second in the UK for research assessed as 3* and 4* - with 96% of our research evaluated as 'world leading or internationally excellent' in the latest Research Excellence Framework (2021).

About the Role
As part of a three-year Leverhulme Project Grant entitled ‘Menopause in UK public discourse: visibility, content, factors and implications’, with Professor Catherine Rottenberg (PI) and Professor Shani Orgad (London School of Economics, Co-I), the Department is looking to appoint a 2-year fixed-term 0.8 FTE postdoctoral research assistant. Investigating media, political, policy and medical discourses, sociodemographic changes and market data, this interdisciplinary project is the first to 1) investigate the framing of menopause in UK public discourse (2002-2022); 2) uncover key factors contributing to menopause’s growing visibility and current framing(s); and 3) explore the implications of our current ‘menopause moment’.

About the Candidate
The successful candidate must have a PhD, a background in feminist media studies as well as experience in content and/or thematic analyses as well as discourse analysis of diverse types of texts, including but not limited to media and policy documents. We are particularly interested in candidates who have some familiarity with analysing employment and market data. The successful candidate will also have a proven record of publishing academic articles.

Benefits
We have generous benefits – an agile working environment, 28 days’ annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives such as staff choir, running club and creative writing classes.

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