The YECREA Network is calling for early-career communication researchers across Europe to apply for 10 vacant positions as YECREA representatives. Deadline for applications: 15th March 2024 The vacant positions are in the following Sections Sections/TWG/Networks: The young scholar (YECREA) representative in each Section/TWG/Network assists the managing team (consisting of a chair and two vice-chairs) in […]
YECREA Pre-conference. ECREA 2024
(Dis)order in academic culture: Finding meaning in a precarious environment’ 22 and 23 of September (Ljubljana) Academic culture and working conditions at universities have become increasingly neo-liberal (Morrish 2017). This shift is visible in greater competition and precarity, among other developments, and particularly among those occupying the lowest positions in the hierarchy: Early career researchers […]
YECREA Workshop
Reimagining a Better Academia: Finding Meaning in a Precarious Environment 6th and 7th of November 2023 University of Malaga, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Malaga, Spain Deadline extension! In recent years, academic culture and universities as places of work have changed profoundly, increasing job insecurity, hyper-competitiveness, loneliness, isolation, and a perception of ‘publish or perish’ (De […]
Call for YECREA Representative (2 vacant position)
2 vacant positions as YECREA representatives. Deadline for applications: 15th April 2023 The vacant positions are in the following Sections Sections/TWG/Networks: The young scholar (YECREA) representative in each Section/TWG/Network assists the managing team (consisting of a chair and two vice-chairs) in organising panels, symposia and/or conferences, and promoting the specific research area. Furthermore, the YECREA […]
Birte Leonhardt, University of Vienna (Communications Officer)
Birte is a predoctoral researcher at the Journalism Studies Center, located at the University of Vienna (Department of Communications). She started her PhD in 2022 and in her dissertation, she is designing and testing a theoretical framework on interventionist journalism. Other research interests include the boundaries of journalism, journalism culture, and constructive journalism as well as journalistic […]
Call for YECREA Representative (10 vacant position)
The YECREA Network is calling for early-career communication researchers across Europe to apply for 11 vacant positions as YECREA representatives. Deadline for applications: 15th December 2022 The vacant positions are in the following Sections Sections/TWG/Networks: The young scholar (YECREA) representative in each Section/TWG/Network assists the managing team (consisting of a chair and two vice-chairs) in […]
Call for YECREA Communications Officer
The YECREA Network is calling for early-career communication researchers across Europe to apply for 1 vacant position as ‘YECREA Communications Officer’. Deadline for applications: 15. December, 2022 The YECREA Communications Officer will assist the YECREA management team (Sandra Banjac, Antonio Cuatero and Phoebe Maares) with diverse administrative and organisational tasks. Specifically, you will participate in […]
Phoebe Maares, University of Vienna (vice-chair
Phoebe Maares was a YECREA representative of the Journalism Studies Section before joining the YECREA management team as a vice-chair. She completed her PhD in Journalism Studies in 2022 at the University of Vienna, Austria and is a postdoctoral researcher in the project “From Core to Periphery: Boundaries of Journalism”, funded by the Austrian Science […]
YECREA elections 2022
YECREA is happy to announce that the Board of the Network has been reelected.
ECREA Summer School 2022: Call for Applications
We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2022 that will take place at the University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain, from 24-30 July 2022. THE FOCUS The ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School 2022 brings together members of the European research community to […]