The Department of Media Studies of the  Faculty of Humanities has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Television and Cross Media Culture.  

The Faculty offers the opportunity of a lectureship for recent graduates. We offer the opportunity to teach in a dynamic academic environment in which new didactic methods are developed and where you will receive support for further career development. The Media and Information and New Media programs are taught in English.                                          

You will be supervised closely during the first year of your appointment. Additional didactical training can also be part of the appointment. Based on the candidate's educational portfolio, previously acquired competences will be taken into consideration.

We expect that our new colleague will be a strong team player in the field of Media and Culture, within themes and subjects such as audio-visual analysis of television, cross-media culture and flm, cultural theory, media history, global media studies, and/or genre theory. S/he is acquainted with current theoretical and critical approaches in media studies and the humanities and is able to define her/his position in present-day disciplinary developments. Candidates are expected to have obtained their PhD.

Tasks:

• preparing and carrying out of education at BA and MA level;
• supervising and coaching of students;
• supervision of student assignments and papers;
• contributing to the evaluation and design of education.

• Relevant PhD degree, or working on a PhD (close to defending);
• capacity to work in multi-disciplinary teams in the field of Media and Culture
• several years of teaching experience at the university level, on BA and MA level in more than one programme of study in the humanities
• demonstrable didactic abilities and/or training, evidenced by an educational portfolio;
• organisational experience and skills;
• reliable team worker;
• thorough knowledge of English; non-native Dutch speakers are requested to achieve competency in Dutch within two years.

Research skills are preferred.

There will be a position for 19 hours a week. The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of two years (starting 1 September 2018 until 31 August 2020). The gross monthly salary will range from €2.640 (scale 10) to €4.852 (scale 11), based on a full-time appointment (38 hours a week).The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

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Department of Media Studies

Media are all-surrounding, both constituting and affecting how we navigate and make sense of the world, distribute information and shape our culture with their stories, programs, representations, formats, exhibitions, repositories and data.

The Media Studies Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam offers both depth and diversity in its approaches to the study of media, with a wide range of academic offerings and research interests for the digital age and how it came into being. There are two larger, academic programs of study in Media Studies, which focus on different key aspects of the development and impact of media: Media and Culture and Media and Information.

The Media and Culture team consists of four professors: next to the chair of Cross-media culture, there are chairs in Film Studies, Digital Heritage and Globalisation. Last two are Research priority areas in the Faculty of Humanities.

The other team in the department is Media and Information, containing chairs in Journalism, New Media and digital culture, Archival studies, Cultural information studies and Computational and Digital Humanities.

Each area has a particular medium, media type or cultural practice as its primary point of departure for in-depth study. Yet all have objects, methods and concepts in common across the breadth of media studies. Both programs are embedded in the Amsterdam media scene, with its many venues, festivals, and other events. The programs have numerous ties to cultural institutions, companies and non-governmental organizations active in the various media sectors, where internship opportunities and collaborations are often available.

https://mediastudies.nl/