Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1-Year Contract, Renewable up to 2 Years) (Job ID: 5910) at University of the Free State

Duties and responsibilities: 

• Conduct innovative research as part of a research team. 
• Travel to conduct fieldwork and collect data from two news agency bureaux on the African continent and the African desk of Agence France Presse (AFP) in Paris. 
• Prepare conference papers and present at international conferences. 
• Author/co-author at least one (1) publication output per year in the form of DHET–accredited scholarly journal articles or books/chapters in books. The renewal of the fellowship beyond the first year depends on satisfactory performance and the submission of an annual progress report. 
• Register and reside as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UFS and participate in relevant activities of the Department of Linguistics and Language Practice at the UFS.   

Eligibility criteria 

• Graduated with a PhD in a relevant discipline within the last five years. Relevant disciplines include but are not limited to translation studies; news translation; news/media and language; ethnography; digital humanities; discourse analysis; pragmatics; and/or sociolinguistics 
• Fluent in at least English and French. 
• May not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship. 
• Must be able to relocate to the UFS for the duration of the fellowship. This is a residential fellowship: the successful applicant must spend 80% of her/his postdoctoral period at the UFS. 
• Have a strong socio-political knowledge of Africa.  

Recommendations 

• Knowledge of and experience in qualitative research methodologies.  
• Qualitative data analysis software. 
• Prior experience in presenting research papers at conferences and/or seminars. 
• Authored/co-authored academic publications.