Call for Expressions of Interest: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at DCU FuJo

Alessio Cornia is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University and a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. His research interest is comparative research on political communication and journalism, focusing on the relationship between media and politics, news industry developments, digital news, social media platforms, media coverage of corruption, and EU journalism. He is the DCU research team lead for the EU-funded research project �...

Dr Eileen Culloty is Deputy Director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) and an Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Communications. She coordinates the Ireland EDMO Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, which aims to advance research on disinformation, support fact-checking and media literacy, and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. Eileen’s book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital ...

Iker Erdocia is Assistant Professor and Director of Research at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS), Dublin City University. He is President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics and Committee member of the Language Policy group, British Association for Applied Linguistics. He is a member of the Linguistic Justice Society and is involved in the COST Action CA19102 'Language in the Human-Machine Era'. Iker is committed to interdisciplinarity. His research ...

Dónal Mulligan is a lecturer and researcher at Dublin City University's School of Communications, where he works on interdisciplinary digital research topics, and teaches on a range of modules related to digital media analysis, design and production. In 2017, he won the President's Teaching Award for Distinctive Approaches to Assessment & Feedback and in 2023 the Overall Award for Excellence in Teaching. His doctoral research focussed on the study of Irish political discourse on Twitter, a...

Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and how worked on and researcher a number of real world deliberative assemblies including We the Cit...

Dr Tanya (Tetyana) Lokot is an Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society at the School of Communications. A native of Ukraine, she researches threats to digital rights, networked authoritarianism, digital resistance, internet freedom and internet governance in Eastern Europe. She is the author of Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), an in-depth study of protest and digital media in Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity. She is curre...

Declan Fahy is an Associate Professor in the School of Communications who researches the public communication of science and health, with a particular focus on how journalists cover health and medicine. He is the Chair of the MSc in Science and Health Communication at the School of Communications. His articles, commentaries, and reviews have been published in journals including Public Understanding of Science, BMC Medical Ethics, Health Promotion Practice, Journalism, and Science. He is on the e...