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The Department of Sociological Studies wishes to recruit a permanent Lecturer in Digital Media and Society and a fixed-term Lecturer in Digital Media and Society for 24 months, both posts starting on 1 September 2018. 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 have an interest in how the digital relates to core social issues, for example, identity, inequality, everyday life, work, the life course. You will teach or run modules in some (but not all) of the following areas at BA or MA level: - Researching Digital Society - Digital Methods - Visual Methods - Digital Identity - Social Media and Society - Media Studies - Digital Media and Society Work Placement You will be expected to make a contribution to undergraduate and MA dissertation supervision as appropriate. You will have a PhD in relevant discipline. Expertise in Digital Media and Society and experience of teaching in the subject area, ideally at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, is 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. You will also take on a Departmental administrative role. *Job Reference Number:* UOS018602 *Contract Type:* 2 posts, 1 fixed-term from 1 September for 24 months *Department:* Department of Sociological Studies *Salary:* Grade 8 £39,992 to £47,722 per annum, with potential to progress to £53,691 through sustained exceptional contribution (open ended position) *Closing Date:* 29th March 2018 *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). *Please specify in your job application whether you wish to be considered for the permanent and/or the fixed term position.* -- Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society University of Sheffield T: 0114 2226488 E: [log in to unmask] FORTHCOMING ARTICLE: 'Living with data: aligning data studies and data activism through a focus on everyday experiences of datafication', *Krisis*, 2018. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------