[Air-L] vacancy Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, LSE | focus on gender, sexuality and/or race

[Willems,W]

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A reminder that the closing date for receipt of applications for this role is Sunday 10 January (23.59 UK time). Applicants are invited to attend a Zoom webinar and Q&A for further details on the position on Wednesday 6 January, 2-3pm UK time. Please RSVP at the following link: https://bit.ly/3lwpRNU.

https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2465/0/283643/15539/assistant-professor-in-media-and-communications

Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £55,974 pa inclusive

The post will commence on 1 September 2021.


Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of media and communications. The successful candidate will join an established and successful department, ranked first in the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework evaluation and third in the QS 2020 World University rankings.


The Department is known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to the field of media and communications, primarily based in the social sciences, but also open to humanities perspectives. You will contribute to the intellectual life of the School through conducting and publishing outstanding quality research, engaging in high-quality teaching as instructed by the Head of Department, and participating in the School and wider Department activities.


Candidates will have a completed PhD in media and communications, or a closely related field, by the post start date. Candidates must also have expertise on media and communications in relation to one or more of the following areas of research: gender, sexuality and/or race. Within these primary areas, we are particularly ― but not exclusively ― interested in candidates with a global and comparative research approach, a focus on the Global South and a commitment to issues of marginality, inequality and social justice.


For full details on the post, please see the how-to-apply document, job description and the person specification on our website.


We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university. For this post, we particularly welcome applications from women and people from minority ethnic groups.

Should you have any queries about the role, please email Dr Wendy Willems (W.Willems at lse.ac.uk<mailto:W.Willems at lse.ac.uk>), Deputy Head of Department. Applicants are also invited to attend a Zoom webinar Q&A for further details on Wednesday 16 December 2020, 2-3pm UK time or Wednesday 6 January 2021, 2-3pm UK time. Please RSVP at the following link: https://bit.ly/3lwpRNU.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 10 January (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

Online interviews and presentations will take place in February 2021.

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Wendy Willems (PhD)
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department
Room PEL7.01G
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom

P:   +44 20 7852 3738
E:    w.willems at lse.ac.uk<mailto:w.willems at lse.ac.uk>
T:   @WendyWillems_<https://twitter.com/WendyWillems_>
W:  http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/wendy-willems

Recent research:
‘Rich History’: race, space and the sanitisation of colonial heritage<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqgTv57oy74&feature=youtu.be>
#BlackLivesMatter in General Gordon Square: a history<https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2020/07/22/blacklivesmatter-in-general-gordon-square-a-history/>
Beyond platform-centrism and digital universalism: the relational affordances of mobile social media publics<javascript:void(0)>
‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of publics<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163443719831594?journalCode=mcsa>
Digital development imaginaries, informal business practices and the platformisation of digital technology in Zambia<http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/101248/>