Dr Michelle Phillipov from the University of Tasmania is looking for a research assistant to work with her on a 3-year Australian Research Council-funded project. The project, ‘The New Politics of Food and the Australian Media’, looks at the ways that television cooking shows and other food media are impacting on public discourses about food, as well as opening up new markets and marketing strategies for food products. More information can be found at the project’s website. 

Dr Phillipov is looking for someone to work approximately 0.2FTE for 6 months (or 0.4FTE for 3 months). Duties include: collection and collation of media texts, preliminary collation and coding of data, and media monitoring.

Please contact Dr Phillipov for further details.