<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<div id="tabs-wrapper" class="clearfix" style="color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: Tahoma, "Lucida Grande", Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">
<h1 class="with-tabs" style="line-height: 34.56px; font-family:
"Myriad Pro", Calibri, Tahoma, "Lucida
Grande", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2.7em;
font-weight: normal; color: rgb(24, 56, 67); background-image:
url("h1shade.png"); background-position: center
bottom; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-bottom: 0.5em;
padding-top: 0.5em; margin: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid
rgb(229, 229, 229);">Research Associate: ‘Reframing Russia for
Global Mediasphere from Cold War to “Information War”’</h1>
</div>
<div class="region region-content" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Tahoma, "Lucida Grande", Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">
<div class="content">
<div id="node-1118" class="node node-vacancy node-promoted"
about="/about/employment/vacancies/research-associate-%E2%80%98reframing-russia-global-mediasphere-cold-war-%E2%80%9Cinformation-war%E2%80%9D%E2%80%99-13436"
typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document">
<div class="content clearfix">
<div class="field field-name-field-unit
field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline
clearfix">
<div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; float:
left;">Unit: </div>
<div class="field-items" style="float: left;">
<div class="field-item even">Faculty of Arts and Social
Science (FASS)</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-salary field-type-text
field-label-inline clearfix">
<div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; float:
left;">Salary: </div>
<div class="field-items" style="float: left;">
<div class="field-item even">£32,004 to £38,183</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-region
field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline
clearfix">
<div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; float:
left;">Location: </div>
<div class="field-items" style="float: left;">
<div class="field-item even"><a
href="http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/region/milton-keynes"
typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label
skos:prefLabel" datatype="" style="color: rgb(20,
55, 72);">Milton Keynes</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-reference-code
field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix">
<div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; float:
left;"> Please quote reference: </div>
<div class="field-items" style="float: left;">
<div class="field-item even">13436</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-information
field-type-text field-label-hidden">
<div class="field-items">
<div class="field-item even">3 year post available from
1 June 2017 - 37 hours per week for the first 2 years
and 11.1 hours per week for the third year.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-closing-date
field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix">
<div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; float:
left;">Closing Date: </div>
<div class="field-items" style="float: left;">
<div class="field-item even"><span
class="date-display-single" property="dc:date"
datatype="xsd:dateTime"
content="2017-05-09T12:00:00+01:00">9 May, 2017 -
12:00</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-body
field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden">
<div class="field-items">
<div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded">
<p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px;">A Research Associate is
required to support Professor Marie Gillespie
(Sociology) and Dr Alistair Willis (Computer
Science) who, with colleagues from Manchester
University (Russian Studies), are beginning a major
3-year, AHRC-funded grant project on ‘Reframing
Russia for the Global Mediasphere: From Cold War to
“Information War”?’. The project will provide new,
inter-disciplinary insights into the post-Cold War
global media ecology through an in-depth case study
of one of its most controversial actors, RT (Russia
Today).</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px;">You will support
colleagues with an analysis of RT audiences and
their interactions with and responses to RT’s
broadcast, online and social media outputs in
English (and Arabic would be desirable but not
essential). You will conduct focus group interviews
with RT audiences and users, and using a variety of
techniques in computational, content, image and
discourse analysis, will investigate user
interactions online and in social networks. You will
co-author articles, contribute one article of your
own on a relevant topic, and work alongside a second
Research Associate in gathering other research
sources and producing reports for our non-academic
partners.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px;">You will have excellent
knowledge of international news media, audience
research and social media analysis, and will have
completed a PhD on news media, political
communication and/or international relations-related
issues. You will have advanced literacy skills in
writing English for academic purposes but also be
able to write in an appropriate register for
policy-makers and diverse publics.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong>Please note that
as a consequence of the applicable Immigration
Rules relating to salary levels, The Open
University<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>will
not</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be
able to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship for
the third year of this contract. Consequently in
order to be considered for this appointment, all
non EU/EEA candidates must hold a UK visa valid
for the duration of the contract OR must be able
to show that (subject to the necessary
applications) they will have entitlement to remain
in the UK without the benefit of a certificate of
sponsorship at the commencement of the third year
of this contract.</strong></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-email
field-type-link-field field-label-inline clearfix">
<div class="field-label" style="font-weight: bold; float:
left;">Email: </div>
<div class="field-items" style="float: left;">
<div class="field-item even"><a
href="mailto://FASS-Recruitment@open.ac.uk"
style="color: rgb(20, 55, 72);">FASS-Recruitment@open.ac.uk</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="field field-name-field-contact-details
field-type-text-long field-label-hidden">
<div class="field-items">
<div class="field-item even">
<p style="margin: 1em 0px;">An application form and
job related information are available from the links
located below. For detailed information and how to
apply go to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment"
style="color: rgb(20, 55, 72);">www3.open.ac.uk/employment</a>,
email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u><a
href="mailto:Arts-recruit@open.ac.uk"
rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(20, 55, 72);">FASS-Recruitment@open.ac.uk</a></u><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>quoting the
reference number. <br>
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>