University of Antwerp

The University of Antwerp's Department of Communication Studies is seeking to fill a full-time vacancy as senior academic staff member (starting October 1st, 2021) in the following domain:

Digital media and strategic communication

You will contribute to the University of Antwerp’s three core tasks: education (40%), research (40%) and service (20%). Your role also includes organisational and managerial aspects.

Education

• You will provide high-quality education within Communication Sciences.
• Your teaching role will evolve along with the study programmes. The courses you will teach include courses in Emerging Communication Technologies (Bachelor, 6 credits), Effectiveness Research in Strategic Communication (Master, 6 credits), Methods of Communication Research (Master, 6 credits, with co-titular, module Experiments and Computational Methods).
• You will play a role in developing activating, student-centred and competence-driven programme components and study programmes.
• You will supervise students in their Bachelor and Master dissertations.

Research

• You expand high-quality scientific research in the area of digital media effects (including social media, VR, apps, wearables, etc.) and other emerging technologies on people's behaviour in the context of strategic communication (marketing and corporate communication, health communication, governmental communication, social profit communication, and political communication). In addition to the well-established social science methods, you have demonstrable experience with more direct measures such as eye tracking, psychophysiology and/or computational methods (big data analysis, machine learning, social network analysis), and you will develop leading research in this area.
• You become a member of the research group Media & ICT in Organizations & Society (MIOS, https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/mios/).
• You initiate new lines of research and coordinate the progress of scientific research projects. You will also participate in ongoing research programmes.
• You acquire and manage national and international research funding.
• You publish in international peer-reviewed journals within your field.
• You develop an international scientific network.
• You supervise PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.

Services

• You play a role in the provision of both academic services and service to society, within the institution and externally. You participate in student recruitment, boards and committees, and science communication.

Organisation and leadership

• You accept coordinating responsibilities in the areas of education, research and/or service provision and you will contribute to policy.
• Your leadership style is motivating and coaching. You are attentive to your employees’ growth and development processes.

More information on the job description, requirements, salary and other aspects can be found on:

https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=1524&descr=Senior-Academic-Staff-in-the-field-of-Digital-media-and-strategic-communication

Deadline for online submission of the candidatures is May 24, 2021.