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The Centre for Politics and Media Research in the Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University welcomes interest from recently qualified post-doctoral researchers to come and work in the Centre as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow.

Research projects of interest are:

• Political talk and the online public sphere
• Global citizenship, public engagement with global affairs and political participation (particularly engagement via digital media)
• The media framing of politics and its impacts
• The politics of public space
• Extremist politics, security and social cohesion, fundamentalism, freedom of speech

Specialist skills training we can offer at Bournemouth University:

• Quantitative and qualitative methodologies
• Web platform and social media data capture and analysis
• Mass media data capture and analysis
• Psychological and sociological approaches to the study of politics
• Consumer behaviour/psychology approaches to the study of political participation

Full details about the call can be found at the below link.

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/2226-msca-if-2016.html

Initial expressions of interest should be sent to the Centre Director, Dr Darren Lilleker (dlilleker@bournemouth.ac.uk) including a summary of the proposed research project and accompanying curriculum vitae.

The planned opening of the call is April 12^th 2016 with a submission deadline of 14^th September 2016.