The Translation Studies Research Unit seeks to hire a full-time PhD researcher for an interdisciplinary, multi-campus research project on ‘The Circulation of Science News in the Coronavirus Era’. The successful candidate will work in close collaboration with a second PhD researcher, based at the Institute for Media Studies (IMS). Both researchers will share their time between the Antwerp and Brussels campuses of KU Leuven.
ProjectThe overall goal of the project is to better understand how science news comes into being and circulates in today’s global mediascape, with an emphasis on science news about COVID-19 vaccines. Your main focus will be on interlingual, intralingual as well as intersemiotic translation practices and science news-making in Flemish newsrooms: what are the main circuits, roles, institutions and dynamics involved in the translation of science news in Flanders, both in(to) and out of Dutch? In addressing this question, you will examine the contextual constraints that shape science news transfer from one linguistic and cultural sphere to another, and from one human and/or institutional link in the communication chain to another, paying special attention to the dominance of English, the person of the journalist/translator and the human and semiotic networks involved.
Your colleague based at IMS will tackle remediation practices (i.e. the various ways science news items are adapted during transfer from one media platform to another).
Working together, you will forge new conceptual, empirical and practical common ground at the intersection of translation studies, journalism studies and science communication.
ProfileAs the successful PhD candidate, you will carry out the following tasks:
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Interested?For more information please contact Prof. dr. Jack Mc Martin, tel. +32 488 24 87 66, e-mail: jack.mcmartin@kuleuven.be or Prof. dr. Luc van Doorslaer, tel.: +32 3 502 15 80, e-mail: luc.vandoorslaer@kuleuven.be. You can apply for this job no later than February 15, 2021 via the
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