Taught vs Research Master’s: Funding, PhD Entry & an 8-Question Checklist
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Griffith University
Australia
Research Interests
Media Studies
Cultural History
Radio Broadcasting
Communication Studies
Radio Science
Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Radio and Communication
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
Research Interests
Media Studies
Political Communication
Sub-saharan Africa
Communication Studies
Journalism
Assistant Professor
The University of British Columbia
Canada
Research Interests
Intercultural Communication
Health Economics
Sociology
Psychology
Communication Studies
Associate Professor of Communication (Journalism)
University of Canberra
Australia
Research Interests
Media Studies
Political Communication
Journalism
Communication Studies
Public Opinion Research
Associate Professor
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
United States
Research Interests
Health Communication
Educational Technology
Communication Studies
Health Science
Academic Purposes
Profesora Contratada Doctora
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Spain
Research Interests
Media Studies
Social Psychology
Communication Studies
Media Psychology
Spanish Language
Assistant Professor
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Netherlands
Research Interests
Media Studies
Political Communication
Journalism
Critical Discourse Analysis
Communication Studies
Profesor
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos - Campus de Fuenlabrada
Spain
Research Interests
Media Studies
Cultural History
Ciencias Sociales
Spanish Studies
Communication Studies
Universität Wien
Austria
Research Interests
Media Studies
Social Psychology
Journalism
Communication Studies
Data Journalism
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Belgium
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KU Leuven is inviting applications for a PhD project in semantic-aware joint communication and sensing in distributed non-terrestrial networks. The researcher will join WaveCoRE in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) in Leuven, Belgium. The project investigates how aerial sensing networks can exchange meaningful information while reducing energy and bandwidth consumption. The work will explore semantic communication for efficient coordination among aerial nodes, PHY–MAC cross-layer d...
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena is advertising a doctoral candidate/scientific researcher position in the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” (FOR 5901). The project focuses on conspiracy beliefs and is situated within the psychology of communication and media use. The position is associated with Professor Tobias Rothmund and offers doctoral research within a German Research Foundation-funded research unit. The work will examine conspiracy beliefs in the context of communication and media use, c...
Psychology
Communication Studies
Media Studies
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Australia
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This PhD scholarship is based at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne and sits within a Monash AI Institute collaboration between the Arts and IT faculties. The project investigates communication and navigation for blind and low vision people, with a particular focus on how people interact with digital navigational technologies and use multimodal information to build a navigational frame of reference. The student will carry out detailed linguistic and multimodal research on real-world...
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