The Center for Journalism, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Odense invites applications for a postdoctoral position for the SafeChilDe project. The position is available from 1 April 2024.
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We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow for 18 months for the SafeChilDe project, which will investigate children and misinformation. The project is supported by TrygFonden and unfolds in three work packages. Work package 1 focuses on the law around children and misinformation. Work package 2 focuses on children’s experiences with misinformation in everyday life, while work package 3 focuses on developing a learning game that can prepare children for the encounter with misinformation.
This position is linked to work package 2 with a focus on investigating the nature and extent of misinformation in the target group of 5–12-year olds’ everyday life. We are therefore looking for a candidate who ideally has experience with both qualitative and quantitative methods and with the child target group.
Researchers from the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities and The Digital Democracy Center (DDC) participate in SafeChilDe. In work package 2, you will refer to Lene Heiselberg from the Center for Journalism.
The postdoc is expected to:
- work independently with, e.g., scientific articles, data reports, qualitative research in the form of MESM (digital ethnography) and representative survey in collaboration with an external supplier (data processing in SPSS).
- be interested in interdisciplinary collaboration. It is expected that the postdoc will contribute professionally as well as socially to the research environment.
- be able communicate results from the project in writing and orally in both Danish and English in academic and popular science contexts.
- speak and write Danish, as it is necessary to communicate with Danish-speaking children aged 5-12 and their parents.
The postdoc will be employed at Center for Journalism and will collaborate with the Digital Democracy Center and the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science at SDU. For a detailed description of the research profile and activities, please visit the websites of the sections.
The Department of Political Science and Public Management believes in fostering a stimulating and inspiring environment for both faculty members and students. The department’s ambition is therefore to recruit, develop, and retain talented scholars committed to both academic excellence and departmental development. Furthermore, the department wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.
For more information about the project and the position, please contact Associate Professor Thomas Enemark Lundtofte: thomas@sdu.dk or Associate Professor Lene Heiselberg: lhei@journalism.sdu.dk.