UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies announces three posts assoicated with the research project: Economics in the Public Sphere
UCL Department of Science and
Technology Studies seeks to appoint 3 posts as part of a European Research
Council funded project, “Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France,
Brazil and Argentina since 1945”.
“Economics in the public
sphere” examines the social and cultural factors shaping the media’s
representation of economic knowledge. It sets out to study newsrooms as sites
for the production of knowledge. From this vantage point we examine how
journalists’ parse competing claims of expertise by scholars, political elites
and social movements. We look at the formation of journalistic genres and
interrogate how they frame representations of the economy, of value, and of
economic reason.
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Research Associate (two
posts, full-time)
The postholders will
contribute to the overall project objectives, and will undertake specialised
research on the national economic press since 1945 for one national case study,
to be assigned by the project director. The two case studies are United Kingdom
and Argentina. The postholders will be expected to define a research agenda
within the broad framework of the project’s central questions.
Research Assistant (one post,
part-time)
The post holder will be
required to carry out research in the area of economic journalism as a site for
the production of public economic knowledge.
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Full details via the STS
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