[Air-l] Call - Job opening, Dir & Prof Communication & Culture, Sydney, Australia (fwd)

[Barry Wellman]

fyi.
sounds mighty nice now -- guaranteed: no ice chopping or snow shovelling.
 Barry
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  Barry Wellman        Professor of Sociology       NetLab Director
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

  Centre for Urban & Community Studies        University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue   Toronto Canada M5S 2G8   fax:+1-416-978-7162

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                	 ***** Just Out *****
		(1) _The Internet in Everyday Life_
              Barry Wellman & Caroline Haythornthwaite, eds.
                       Oxford: Blackwell, 2002

		(2) _Social Structures: A Network Approach_
		   Barry Wellman & S.D. Berkowitz, eds.
		      Toronto: CSPI Press, 2003
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 16:28:12 +0100
From: Karl M. van Meter <vanmeter at iresco.fr>
To: aimsoc at wanadoo.fr
Subject: Call - Job opening, Dir & Prof Communication & Culture,  Sydney,
     Australia

Thanks to the International Sociological Association
isa at sis.ucm.es


Job opening

Research Professor and Director
Research Centre in Communication and Culture
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology
Sydney, Australia

Transforming Cultures is a newly established Key University
Research Centre in Communication and Culture at the University
of Technology in Sydney, Australia. UTS is seeking an
internationally recognised scholar in the fields of Cultural
and/or  Communication research to act as the inaugural Director
of the Centre.

The Centre currently comprises four research nodes - Cultural
History, Transnational Cultural Studies, Cultural Interaction
and New Media, International Activism. The Director will be
expected to develop a vision for the Centre's future which
ensures that UTS continues to be recognised for its national and
international capability in communication and cultural research,
to develop links with the external community, to contribute to
the Centre's work by conducting his/her own research, to lead
the Centre's researchers in the conduct of their research, to
foster postgraduate research education in the field, and to
ensure that funding to support the Centre's work is secured.

Requirements of the position include an established
international reputation in the field of cultural and/or
communications research, demonstrated research leadership
capacity, especially in relation to leading cross-disciplinary
teams, past success in attracting research funding, experience
in working with external partners in government, industry or the
community and the ability to oversee and monitor the successful
running of the Centre.

Closing date: 14 March 2003
Position description and selection criteria available from UTS website:
http://www.uts.edu.au/div/hru/employ/
or by contacting Human Resources Unit phone 61-2-9514 1087
Contact person for further information:
Professor Elizabeth Jacka,   <liz.jacka at uts.edu.au>

Joint 2002-2006 RC33 membership & full BMS subscription: 110 euros!
Think about it!

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