Macquarie University Research Fellowship: Call for Intentions to Apply

[Bridget Griffen-Foley]

Macquarie University will offer up to 10 full-time Research Fellowship positions across the university commencing in 2025. Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for 3 years. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD on or after 1 March 2021 or submit their thesis on or before 31 December 2023 (or make a convincing case for early career researcher status).

The Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature (MCCALL) is interested in sponsoring postdoctoral research projects in the following areas:

•     Media and Communications: screen practice; social media and digital culture; media history; journalism and non-fiction writing; communications; cultural studies.

•     Creative Arts: music and related technologies; music production; the singing voice; popular music; ethnomusicology; creative processes; sound; improvisation; performance; dance; circus, industry practices.  

•     Languages and Cultures: global literatures and cultures; language studies and applied linguistics; the role of languages in cultural identities, and their impact on linguistic and literary products in social life.

•     Literature: medievalism; medieval and early modern literature; modernism; historical fiction; popular fiction; literary approaches to film and television; postcolonialism; Australian fiction. 

 

If you have an interest in applying for a Fellowship in the 2025 round through MCCALL, please send:

1.    Provisional project title and a brief (400-word) project description. Please label this Word document surnameNOI

2.    Name of potential Sponsor (there is no need to contact them at this stage).

3.    Your PhD conferral date (or thesis submission date if the PhD is not yet awarded).

4.    A copy of your CV as an attachment including a list of publications. Publications should be listed under the headings: books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and other. Your CV should also briefly detail any career interruptions since the award of your PhD. Please label this document surnameCV

to Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley (b.f...@mq.edu.au) and Associate Professor Paul Sheehan (paul.s...@mq.edu.au) by Thursday, 25 January 2024.

If the Department is able to sponsor your application, you will be notified by Monday, 5 February 2024. Sponsored applicants will then be invited to work with their sponsors to develop their formal applications which must be submitted via the WorkDay system by mid-late March 2024 (date to be confirmed).

Please note that this is a competitive university-wide scheme and there is no guarantee any MQRFs will be awarded in MCCALL.

Best wishes,

Bridget

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Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley FAHA

Director of Research and Innovation
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature (MCCALL)

Faculty of Arts 10HA

10 Hadenfield Avenue
Macquarie University 

NSW 2109 Australia
Tel: 61 2 9850 8828 | 0412 386 548

Fax: 61 2 9850 2101

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/bridget-griffen-foley

Centre for Media History

http://www.mq.edu.au/research/centres_and_groups/cmh/