Research Associate: Economics in the Public Sphere - 2 Posts, -
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
Further details about the posts and application at http://tinyurl.com/stsucl291

Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Tiago Mata (Email: [log in to unmask])