Dear MeCCSA Colleagues

May I please draw to your attention the advertisement below 
for a Research Fellow. We're looking for someone to work on 
an ESRC-funded project on nanotechnology and news 
production. We would be grateful if you would kindly 
forward this email to anyone you think may be interested. 
The advert appeared in last week's Guardian and THES.

Many thanks
Stuart, Alison and Alan


Research fellow (Nanotechnology and news production: 
scientists', journalists', and editors' views) 

£17,624 to £22,948 (Pay award pending) 1 Year fixed term

Members of the Sociology staff in the School of Sociology, 
Politics and Law, together with a member of the School of 
Cultural Studies, the University of West of England, 
Bristol, have recently been awarded an ESRC grant to 
undertake research on nanotechnology and news production. 
The project, which will commence in March 2004, will 
involve a content analysis of national press coverage of a 
new biotechnology, namely nanotechnology, as well as a 
survey and in-depth interviews with scientists, 
journalists, editors, and stakeholders in order to elicit 
their views on news production processes and coverage. The 
project, which is one of the first ESRC funded projects on 
nanotechnology, builds on staff's previous research in 
media and biotechnological risk. 
	
You will have a good first degree and a doctorate in one of 
the social sciences, or humanities, or media 
studies/journalism, or equivalent research experience. You 
will also have had experience in one or more of the 
following research methods: interviews, textual/discourse 
analysis (particularly as applied to print media), survey 
questionnaires. The post will be based in the School of 
Sociology, Politics and Law, University of Plymouth. You 
will be required to undertake some travel to undertake 
interviews.

For informal discussion please contact Dr Alison Anderson 
on 01752 233234 or e-mail [log in to unmask], 
Professor Alan Petersen on 01752 233220 or email 
[log in to unmask]; or Dr Stuart Allan on 
0117-328-4325 or email [log in to unmask]

Closing date: 12 Noon Tuesday, 17 February 2004

Please request an application pack, quoting Reference 
5564/SSB, via: www.plymouth.ac.uk/vacancies
Email: [log in to unmask] Tel. 01752-232168 (24 hour 
answerphone)

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