Career for Project Researcher 3 - Media and Communication at University of Lagos
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
The University of Lagos invites applications from outstanding and ambitious individuals to fill the position below:
Job Title: Project Researcher 3 - Media and Communication
Job Location: Lagos
General Description
- Vacancies exist for outstanding and ambitious researchers in the humanities and social sciences to work full - time at the University of Lagos as part of a large research team on an international Cultural Studies project. The project. 'The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880- present', will span five years. It has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC), an arm of the European Union (EU). The successful candidates will join three teams of researchers on the project - one in the UK, one in Lagos and one in Nairobi - to conduct interviews, gather data, and undertake media studies and content analyses in a variety of urban settings.
- The Lagos arm requires three Project Researcher (PRs) in (1) Public Health, Urban Sociology and or the Environment (2) Media and Communications (3) Education to generate data and reports or four key themes - colonialism, the environment, sexuality and ethnicity - and to examine everyday urban practices in Lagos, with particular attention to the ways in which urban encounters and identities are represented and interpreted through English and local- language categories denoting dirt.
- The Project Researcher that we need must have sound experience in conducting sustained research preferably at the postgraduate level in relevant disciplines. Proven skills are required in spoken and written English, spoken Nigerian Pidgin and in spoken and written Yoruba. Each Project Researcher must be able to meet strict fortnightly project deadlines. Core provision will be made for tailored research methods training for all Project Researchers in the UK for a 34 week period in March/April 2014.
Essential Requirements:
Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to use discipline-specific software and methodologies for the presentation and analysis of data.
- Experience in the completion of independent research projects.
- Transcription and translation skills.
Specific Job Descriptions
- This Project Researcher will focus on cultural production in the contemporary public sphere, including urban newspapers, radio phone-ins, popular music, popular films (dvds), televisions soap operas, online blogs, local publications and other popular urban media.
- He/she will show a Keen interest in the identification, collection and archiving of media resources.
- Experience and library archival/IT will be an advantage and experience is essential in quantitative and qualitative analyses of media discourse (content analysis & discourse analysis).
Responsibilities
- Develop, pilot and implement an in-depth qualitative questionnaire for media producers and audiences, for which translation and transcription skills will also be required.
- Identify and collect resources in consultation with line managers
Qualification
- A bachelor's degree with a minimum of second class (lower division) and a Masters degree in Media and Communications, or Library, Archive & Information Studies, or Literary Studies, or a related discipline.
Condition of Service
- Duration of appointment: Successful candidates will he appointed as project staff on the ERC-sponsored Dirtpol project and shall be employed full-time from 1st February, 2014 to 31st August, 2017, and half-time from 1st September, 2017 to 31st August, 2018 only.
- Salary and condition of service: Successful candidates will be appointed at the level of Assistant Lecturers on CONUASS2.
Mode of Application
Applicants should send their CV and a cover letter clearly indicating the following information:
- Description of research methods you have used in previous research projects (Max 250 words)
- Description of how your skill-set will contribute to the post of Project Researcher on the ERC-Dirtpol project (max. 200 words)
- 2 research questions you would expect to address if appointed as Project Researcher (max. 100 words)
- Successful candidates will be contacted by 18th December, 2013.
- Interviews will hold on 9 & 10th January, 2014.
Application letters should be sent as email attachments to: dirtpol@sussex.ac.uk and copied to: poloko@unilag.edu.ng
Application Deadline: 12th December, 2013
Sorry the application deadline for this job has elapsed
