YECREA is excited to announce that applications are now open for our Workshop Series on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in Academic Careers; supported by a grant from the ECREA EDI Committee.Early-career scholars are increasingly expected to articulate their positionality, demonstrate EDI awareness, and present coherent academic identities, all while navigating a highly competitive job market. […]
YECREA invites panel proposals for ECC 2026 in Brno
Submit your proposal until January 8th 2026
Call for Applications: YECREA Section Representatives 2026
The deadline for applications ends on 15 November 2025
Call for Applications: YECREA Section Representatives 2025
YECREA seeks early-career researchers to serve as section representatives.
Alba Diez-Gracia, University of Valladolid (vice-chair)
Alba Diez-Gracia is PhD in Communication Studies. Before her role as YECREA vice-chair, she was a young representative for ECREA’s Audiences and Reception Studies Section. She currently works as a research support specialist and communications officer at the Doctoral School of the University of Valladolid. Her lines of research mainly focus on the relationship between […]
Emilija Gagrčin, University of Bergen (chair)
Emilija Gagrčin was a YECREA representative of the Political Communication Section before becoming a member of the YECREA management team. She completed her PhD in Political Communication in 2023 at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and is currently Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at University of […]
Ekwutosi Sanita Nwakpu (Edge Hill University)
Ekwutosi Sanita Nwakpu is a media and communication scholar. She previously served as a YECREA representative for the Ethics of Mediated Human Suffering Section before becoming a member of the YECREA management team. She completed her PhD in Media Studies in 2025 at Edge Hill University, United Kingdom. She works as an academic in Nigeria […]
Call for YECREA Representative (10 vacant position)
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 […]