[Air-L] Three lecturer posts in Digital Media and Society @ University of Sheffield

[Helen Kennedy]

The Department of Sociological Studies wishes to recruit three Lecturers in
Digital Media and Society (permanent/open-ended), starting on 1 July 2019
or as soon as possible thereafter.



Successful candidates will have an interest in how the digital relates to
core social issues, for example identity, inequality, everyday life, work,
the life course. APhD in relevant discipline, expertise in Digital Media
and Society and experience of teaching in the subject area, ideally at
undergraduate and postgraduate level, are essential. You will have a
growing record of quality research publications and will develop your
research profile in line with the Departmental Research Strategy, through
personal research, applying for research funding, and supervising research
students.



Successful candidates will play a key role in contributing to the
Department’s portfolio, maintaining its high standards of teaching through
delivering modules in Digital Media and Society on BA and MA programmes in
this area. You will teach or run modules in some (but not all) of the
following areas at BA or MA level:


   - Researching Digital Society
   - Sociology of the Media
   - Digital Methods
   - Visual Methods
   - Digital Identities
   - Social Media and Society
   - Digital Media and Society Work Placement

You will make a contribution to undergraduate and MA dissertation
supervision.



*Job Reference Number:* UOS021874

*Contract Type:* Open-ended

*Salary:* Grade 8: £40,792 to £48,677 per annum, with potential to progress
to £54,765 through sustained exceptional contribution (open ended position)

*Closing Date:* 15th April 2019

*Details:* *https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs
<https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs>* > current vacancies > search ‘digital’
(please don’t email asking for a specific URL, it doesn’t work to copy and
paste this).

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Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society
University of Sheffield
T: 0114 2226488
E: h.kennedy at sheffield.ac.uk

OUT NOW: (with others) 'Data Visualisations: Newsroom Trends and Everyday
Engagements' in J. Gray & L. Bounegru (eds) *The Data Journalism Handbook
2: towards a critical data practice*, available in online beta at:
https://datajournalismhandbook.org/handbook/two/experiencing-data/data-visualisations-newsroom-trends-and-everyday-engagements
OUT SOON: *Data Visualization in Society* (ed with Martin Engebretesen,
Amsterdam University Press