[Air-L] Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Media and Creative-Cultural Industries - York University

[ganaele]

Dear colleagues,

Please find below a job posting in my department for a CRC in  Media and
Creative-Cultural Industries.

All the best,

Ganaele Langlois
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Studies
York University

Canada_Reserach_Chair_Tier_2_in_Media_Cultural_Creative_Industries.pdf

Department of Communications Studies
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Media & Cultural/Creative Industries

Posted: November 13, 2018
Deadline to Apply: December 31, 2018

The Department of Communication Studies at York University invites
applications from outstanding early career scholars who specialize in Media
& Cultural/Creative Industries to be nominated for a Tier 2 Canada Research
Chair (CRC). The successful CRC is expected to have the necessary
qualifications to be appointed as a professorial tenure-track or tenured
professor at the Assistant or Associate level. The start date for this
position is July 1, 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful
candidate must have a PhD in Communications or a related discipline:
applications are welcome from any sub- field, with a preference for those
with a specialization in Communications and Digital Media. The ideal
candidate will be an excellent emerging world-class researcher with
demonstrated potential for international recognition in his/her field
integrating a pioneering approach to the study of the political and social
benefits of research. The successful candidate will have demonstrated
potential for excellence in the study of how to build, and engage in,
collaborative research initiatives to address media and cultural/creative
industries with an emphasis on digital cultures. The successful candidate
will have demonstrated excellence or promise of excellence in teaching and
scholarly research with a strong record of theoretical innovation.
Preference will be given to those successful in obtaining peer-reviewed
external research funding and with experience supervising graduate students
and postdoctoral fellows and/or the potential to attract, develop, and
retain excellent students and future researchers, while contributing to
curricular development in her/his area of specialization, and participate
actively in the graduate program. The successful applicant shall be
eligible for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Pedagogical innovation in high priority areas such as experiential
education and technology enhanced learning is preferred.

The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program seeks to attract outstanding
researchers for careers at Canadian universities. Tier 2 Chairs are
intended for exceptional emerging scholars (i.e., who, at the time of
nomination, are within 10 years of attaining their highest degree, with
consideration for career breaks) who have the acknowledged potential to
lead their field of research. Appointment to a Tier 2 Chair is for five
years, is renewable once, and comes with enhanced research support from the
program. Applicants who are more than 10 years from their highest degree
(and where career breaks exist, including maternity leave, extended sick
leave, clinical training, etc.) may have their eligibility for a Tier 2
Canada Research Chair assessed through the program’s Tier 2 justification
process. Please see the CRC website (http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/) for
further eligibility details.

As a research Chair, a CRC is expected to develop research linkages within
and beyond York. In the case of this Chair, productive research
trajectories may include collaborations with scholars across the Faculty of
Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, as well as a number of York’s Research
Centres and Institutes (www.yorku.ca/research/about/centres.html), for
example: Sensorium, York’s Centre for Digital Arts and Technology , BRAIN,
analysis and visualization of big data, VISTA, the Institute for Research
on Innovation and Sustainability, the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies,
and the York Centre for Asian Research.

The deadline for applications is December 31, 2018. Salary will be
commensurate with qualifications and experience. All York University
positions are subject to budgetary approval.

Candidates should submit a signed letter of application, an up-to-date
curriculum vitae, a teaching dossier, a research and research leadership
plan, and a sample publication, and arrange to have three signed letters of
reference sent directly to:

Professor Anne MacLennan, Chair
Department of Communications
Office: 3019 Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
Email: amaclenn at yorku.ca – (Subject line: “CRC Tier 2”)

York University has a policy on Accommodation in Employment for Persons
with Disabilities and is committed to working towards a barrier-free
workplace and to expanding the accessibility of the workplace to persons
with disabilities. If you require accommodation at any time during the
hiring process, please contact Dr. MacLennan, Chair, Department of
Communication Studies at comchair at yorku.ca.

For this nomination, we are particularly interested in candidates with
diverse backgrounds and especially encourage candidates in equity,
diversity and inclusion categories, including members of the four
designated groups (women, members of visible minorities (racialized
groups), Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities) to apply. York
acknowledges the potential impact that career interruptions (e.g. maternity
leave, leave due to illness, etc.) can have on a candidate’s record of
research achievement. Applicants are encouraged to explain in their
application the impact that career interruptions may have had on their
record of research achievement; this will be taken into careful
consideration during the assessment process.

York University is an Affirmative Action (AA) employer and strongly values
diversity, including gender and sexual diversity, within its community. The
AA Program, which applies to Aboriginal people, visible minorities, people
with disabilities, and women, can be found at http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/ or
by calling the AA office at 416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are
encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens, Permanent Residents, and
Indigenous people in Canada will be given priority.
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Applicants wishing to self-identify can do so by downloading, completing
and submitting the forms found at: http://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/. Please
select the Affirmative Action tab under which forms pertaining to
Citizenship and AA can be found.

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a commitment to diversity, equity and social justice. The range, global
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LA&PS Communications Department Background

The Department of Communication Studies offers students an
interdisciplinary and dynamic milieu where they can develop comprehensive
and critical awareness of diverse communication and media environments. Our
approach to communication emphasizes the questioning and analyzing of media
and technology in their relationship to social and cultural practices and
the circulation of ideas and values.

The research interests of our faculty reflect our diversity and excellence
as a Department. Our faculty engage with communications from diverse
vantage points ranging from media policy, politics and power, international
development and gender and identity. These faculty interests are reflected
in our comprehensive curriculum which ranges from traditional forms of mass
communication to mobile technologies, web 2.0 and nanotechnology. Our
courses encompass three thematic areas that include: Media, Culture and
Society, Politics and Policy, & Critical Technology Studies. The
Department’s Graduate Program, the Joint Ryerson-York Program in
Communication & Culture, spans two universities, five faculties at York
University and includes almost 150 faculty members.