2 Research Associate positions, Screening Socialism, Loughborough University, UK
These are 12 month, full-time Research Associate posts, required to work on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Screening Socialism: Television and Everyday Life in Socialist Eastern Europe. Key tasks include independent archival research and interviewing in one countries and dissemination of results. Suitable candidates will hold a PhD in a relevant subject or be close to completion, and have the relevant research, analytical and linguistic skills to enable research on one of the former socialist countries: Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania.
To apply, follow this link. You will need to search for the position using ‘Research Associate’ and then register to access the on-line form.
Closing date: 1 May 2014.
Interviews will be held on 15 May 2014.
Preferred starting date: 1 August 2014.
For informal queries contact: Dr. Sabina Mihelj, the Principal Investigator of the project.
Screening Socialism is an innovative new research project devoted to researching the history of popular television in socialist Eastern Europe, and its legacy on popular memories of the socialist period. After Stalin’s death, improved provision of consumer goods, increases in leisure time, and a rise in living standards were seen as a means for legitimising socialist rule. Popular television was an important conduit for this privatisation of politics, a space where the social imaginary of the socialist ‘good life’ was shaped and debated. Did socialist television de-politicise socialist culture and undermine public engagement in political processes, or did it succeed in bringing public affairs to a much wider audience? Screening Socialism sets out to find out.
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