[Air-L] Job Vacancy: Professor of Media and Head of Department, National Uni of Ireland Maynooth

[Kylie Jarrett]

Job Vacancy:

Professor of Media Studies and Head of Centre for Media Studies

National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Ollscoil na hÉireann, Má Nuad
School of English, Media and Theatre Studies


The Centre for Media Studies
The Centre for Media Studies combines research and teaching in three 
inter-related areas:
media analysis (including media history, social media, transnationalism 
and multiculturalism
in relation to media, and film studies); broadcast media production; and 
digital media
production and analysis. The Centre has 5 full-time staff members and 
currently offers
undergraduate and postgraduate degrees to 220 students.

The Role
NUI Maynooth is committed to a strategy in which the primary University 
goals of excellent
research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and 
equally valued.
Professors will be expected to provide significant intellectual 
leadership, through a
demonstrated commitment to both education and research, and also to 
contribute to the
effective leadership and management of the Department, the Faculty and 
the University.
We are seeking an academic with an outstanding record to join our staff 
as Professor of
Media Studies. The person appointed will have an excellent record of 
teaching, research and
publication. He/she will be expected to make a strong contribution to 
the teaching, research
and profile of the University, and to provide ongoing leadership for the 
discipline.

For more information:
http://humanresources.nuim.ie/vacancies.shtml