Dear All,
We are currently advertising availability to join our thriving PhD community in the department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield.
We have scholarships available for a limited number of high calibre students. I’d be grateful if you could draw the attention of any suitable candidates to this opportunity.
The areas in which we are looking to recruit map onto current staff research interest and expertise.
1) Public and media discourses on footballers’ public selves.
The very public debate surrounding the convicted rapist Ched Evans and whether or not he should be permitted to resume his career as a professional footballer has generated discussion on range of complex issues: from the nature of rehabilitation and scope of punishment to the boundaries between public and private morality. The case has also brought to the surface unsettling discourses on wider understanding of rape and the rights of victims of sexual violence. It has likewise generated significant noise on social media, with critics of his former club’s decision to allow him to train with the team, receiving significant abuse and even threats of violence. British football has long been a site where debates about nation, race, masculinity and gender have never been far from the surface. This study analyses football and its mediation as the focal point around which important debates about sexism, racism, homophobia and even the meaning and scope of crime and punishment are taking place. It also draws on the role of social media in echoing sometimes disturbing discourses on rape and sexual violence and contributes to a wider debate on hate speech and the boundaries of public discussion.
2) Approaches to war correspondents' perceptions of risk and the changing nature of warfare.
3) Any aspect of British national newspaper culture in the twentieth/twenty first centuries with particular emphasis on tabloids, popular culture or representation of outsider groups.
Interested applicants should contact
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Best wishes,
Martin
"When all think alike, no one thinks very much" – Walter Lippmann
Professor M.D. Conboy FRHistS
Professor of Journalism History
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Journalism Studies
University of Sheffield
9 Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 DT
UK
0114 222 2505
For the Centre for the Study of Journalism and History please go to:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/journalismhistory
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