Application deadline: 26th June 2023 The Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield is hiring two professors. The department houses a vibrant Digital Media + Society <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/research/digital-media-and-society> area, comprising undergraduate and MA programmes, an expanding PhD student group, a dynamic research culture and an amazing staff team. We would love to see applicants with Digital Media + Society expertise to apply for these posts! We are looking to recruit inspirational academics to play key leadership roles in research, impact, teaching and/or department management. You will complement and extend our existing strengths, and have a track record of research excellence, teaching innovation and leadership. We are especially keen to hear from candidates whose work relates to one or more of the following fields: - AI, automation & emergent technology in society; - decolonisation and the Global South; - gender and intersectionality - race and digital media; - social divisions, inequalities and solidarities. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we particularly welcome applications from currently under-represented groups within the department, including candidates who are from black, Asian and minority ethnic and refugee backgrounds; who are LGBTQ+; or who are living with disabilities. To find the job ad, go to https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs > browse jobs > and search ‘chair in sociological studies’. For informal enquiries, contact Head of Department Professor Nathan Hughes ( nathan.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk) <http://nathan.hughes@sheffield.ac.uk/>, or me to talk specifically about our Digital Media + Society <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/research/digital-media-and-society> area. -- Helen Kennedy, Director, ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/>, @digitalgoodnet Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/>, she/her Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences <https://acss.org.uk/> *LATEST PUBLICATION: * Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779211061415>(2022, w/Giorgia Aiello, Chris W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, *I**nternational Journal of Cultural Studies*.