Postdoctoral opportunities at UCL, "Economics in the Public Sphere" in UK/Argentina; Ref:1458983; Salary (inclusive of London allowance) £33,353-£40,313 per annum.

Duties and Responsibilities
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies seeks to appoint 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates 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.

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.

The posts are available for 12 months in the first instance, with an expected start date of no later than 1st September 2015.

Key Requirements
A PhD in an appropriate field, such as economic and cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, political and social history, Latin American studies is required. Completion is required prior to the start of contract.

Candidates experienced in certain research methods (such as oral history, ethnographic observation, content and textual analysis of media) will be preferred.

Project page at www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/econpublic
Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Tiago Mata (Email: t.mata@ucl.ac.uk)