Postdoctoral position at GPS

Faculty of Culture and Society
The Faculty of Culture and Society is a multidisciplinary faculty that includes the School of Arts and Communication (K3), the Department of Global Political Studies, the Department of Language and Linguistics, and the Department of Urban Studies.

Global Political Studies (GPS)
The department is a multidisciplinary teaching and research environment comprising seven subject areas: European Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Gender Studies, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), International Relations, Human Rights and Political Science. The department´s degree programmes and research activities focus on global processes of change and the specific and evolving consequences for societies and individuals.

Background
GPS currently has approximately 1300 students and extensive research on the professor level. We are developing opportunities to conduct research on the middle level. The announcement of a two-year postdoctoral position is aimed at major contributions to Militarization 2.0: Militarization´s Social Media Footprint through a Gendered Lens.

A four-year, three-country research project funded by Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Science Research Council), the Militarization 2.0 project will have a team of nine researchers spread between Sweden, Germany and the UK. The project focuses on when and how new media, in particular the new social media of "Web 2.0," is militarized and with what effect on society and our understanding of ourselves as individual citizens. In bringing together three interlinked strands of international research ? focused on arms-producing companies (Sweden), private military and security companies (Germany) and producers of ´military entertainment´ games (the UK) - this project aims to enable sharing of expertise and knowledge as well as developing rigorous analysis of such companies´ activities and their social effects through a shared framework of content and discourse analysis of both production and reception (i.e., of both the militarised content and the responses to that content captured across a range of social media networks). A key aspect of such an approach will be awareness of the importance of understanding the role that gender - in terms of the representation of both masculinities and femininities - plays in both militarization and social media.

The postdoc will engage mainly in research that will be conducted directly for the Militarization 2.0 project. The post-doctoral fellow also will be supported in strengthening their own research as it relates to this project and in contributing to the ongoing research in the department. An application for the two-year postdoc position must specifically and clearly relate to the research that will be conducted under the Militarization 2.0 project especially in terms of understanding militarization or related processes as linkages between the everyday and the international levels. Within this area a priority will be given to applications with the ability to employ mixed methodologies. More information about the research profile is available at http://www.mah.se/militarization.

The postdoctoral candidate is expected to participate in mentoring and advising undergraduate GPS students and otherwise to participate in GPS activities such as faculty seminars and workshops.

For more information about the job, visit our website;

http://www.mah.se/medarbetare/Personalfragor/Platsannonser/