Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to advertise a new Research Fellowship available at the 
University of Birmingham, as part of a British Academy sponsored project. 
You will find details below.

For further information please contact:

Daniele Albertazzi: [log in to unmask]
Clodagh Brook: [log in to unmask]
Charlotte Ross: [log in to unmask]

To download a copy of the application form, please visit: 
http://www.punit.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancyDisplay.htm?org_unit_code=DNARTS&vacancy_class_id=2

 
Post title
Research Fellow
Reference number
A44139
School/department

Department of Italian Studies

Closing date for receipt of applications
11/6/2007
Hours
Part time
43% of full-time working hours.
Salary range
£24,402 - £33,799
Pro rata
Post duration
Fixed term post for 18 months.
Number of vacancies available
1 

Personnel contact(s)
Ms. Marva Richards
email: [log in to unmask]
tel.: +44 (0)121 414 7438

Details

Job Summary


Silvio Berlusconi exerted a huge influence on Italy's culture, social life 
and mass media: under him Italy became a country so divided that each 
intellectual, artist, actor and media practitioner was pressurized to take 
sides, for or against a politician who not only controls large parts of 
Italy's media and distribution channels but was seen as embodying the 
triumph of the right in Italy.

The research assistant will be involved in a British Academy funded project 
to to assess how neo-conservative values have been contested and resisted 
by a variety of groups, social/minority movements, intellectuals and media 
practitioners from Berlusconi's return in 2001 to the end of his government 
in 2006. The key research question is: how has resistance to the new 
conservative culture been articulated and expressed?

Main Duties 

* Translate texts (from Italian into English) and prepare them for 
publication as instructed by the team * Interviewing relevant parties * 
Production of interview transcripts * Research for and the preparation of 
research reports * Authorship of at least one chapter of the planned book * 
Full responsibility of editing of the manuscript and all articles * 
Co-authorship of article/s * Assistance with the development and completion 
of all aspects of the project *

Translate texts (from Italian into English) and prepare them for 
publication, as instructed by the team.

Decision Making/Problem Solving without reference to others: 

*	Day to day operation of the project. 

after consulting others: 

*	Changes in working procedures

or that would be referred to someone else: 

*	Changes in project direction or implementation.

 

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience Required


Essential:

* Completed PhD in either the field of Italian Studies, Media Studies, 
Cultural Studies, Communications studies, Politics or Sociology. * Native 
command of English; near-native command of Italian * A strong, demonstrable 
research interest in the development of the media in Italy and/or popular 
mass-mediated Italian culture. * Demonstrable experience of using 
qualitative methods of research and analysing results gathered through such 
methods.

Desirable: 

*	Published and/or presented at conferences in both Italian and
*	English.
*	Edited books/special issues of academic journals.
*	Experience as a translator