University of Amsterdam

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Description

The Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) is a research institute in Communication Science residing in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Communication Science, of the University of Amsterdam. It is a research institute with more than 50 senior researchers associated and an English-language PhD programme.

ASCoR is part of the University of Amsterdam, and interacts with the bachelor, master, and research master curricula in communication science. These programmes attract up to 1,100 graduate and undergraduate students a year.

ASCoR is active in both national and international academic communities: it coordinates the national communications research school; it attracts funding from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO); and its scholars make their research public at international conferences, in journals, and in book form.

ASCoR faculty are also represented in international communication organisations, such as the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the media network of the European Science Foundation, and the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). ASCoR members are on the editorial boards of international communication journals.

Programmes

1. Research Master of Science in Communication Science -

   The programme combines theoretical courses with training in conducting research, and concentrates on the production, uses, and impact of information and mediated communication in informing, persuading, and entertaining audiences. The current multimedia era, in which digital technologies not only provide new means of communication (the internet, mobile phones) but also transform older ones (print, broadcasting), is shaping today's information and communication processes to an increasing degree. This presents challenges for theory and research.

   Topics covered include: media entertainment and popular culture, political communication, journalism, health communication, and advertising and public relations. The approach is multidisciplinary: core theories in communication science are combined with theories and methods from political science, sociology, psychology, and economics.
   
   This two-year research degree offers opportunities to specialise within either the tradition of empirical-analytical methodology or that of interpretative methodology but also provides a broader methodological vision. Furthermore, in order to meet the requirements of social and behavioural research questions there are trainings in experimental as well as non-experimental research designs and methods. It is available as a part-time programme, as well as full-time.
   
   Click here for further information, or contact: Dr. J.A. de Ridder, mci@fmg.uva.nl
   
   

2. PhD in Communication Science -

   ASCoR offers a four-year international PhD programme in Communication Science. The programme builds upon the strengths of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, so that PhD students benefit from working with scholars in Communication Science as well as from other social sciences. Upon completion of the programme and defence of the dissertation, students receive a PhD in the Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam.

   Elements of the programme include: a PhD proposal that fits into the ASCoR research programme; PhD training concentrated in the first 18 months of the programme; a PhD paper - either an empirical article or a theoretical review article; teaching a number of classes in the undergraduate programme; PhD research and fieldwork; a progress portfolio consisting of an overview of progress of all thesis chapters, an overview of papers that have resulted from the project so far, and a 'statement of feasibility'; and the PhD thesis.
   
   Click here to view guidelines and eligibility criteria, or contact: Ms. Dr. Maaike Prangsma, M.E.Prangsma@uva.nl

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