Assistant professor at the Department of Bibliography and Data Analysis in the Institute of Information and Media Studies

No 82.2025.ZBAD.INIM.WKSM.MR of September 25, 2025

Institute/Department: Department of Bibliography and Data Analysis in the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Faculty of Social Communication and Media
Position: assistant professor
Type of position: reaserch and teaching

• – in the discipline Social Communication and Media Studies
• – in the field Social sciences

Vacancies/positions: 1
Type of contract: full time
Deadline for submission of documents: November 30th, 2025
Expected term of decision:  December 15th, 2025
Expected commencement of the employment: February 21^st, 2026
Period of employment:  fixed-term contract until February 21^st, 2028

The competition is open to each candidate who meets the requirements set out in the Higher Education and Science Act of July 20th 2018 (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1668 as amended) and the Statute of University of Wroclaw.

Requirements
The candidate is required to have:

1. Hold a doctoral degree.
2. Have at least two scholarly works of significant importance for the development of social communication and media studies – especially of information science – published in journals from the list of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education or by the recognised Polish and foreign publishing houses.
3. Have experience in working with large data resources.
4. Have teaching experience at academic level in the area of social communication and media studies and be ready to take new responsibilities and acquire new competences related to teaching.
5. Speak fluent Polish, which would enable them to teach students at academic level, and know English at the level which would enable them to participate in international scholarly communication.
6. Be available to fulfill teaching duties (teaching students at both full-time and part-time study courses) and organisational duties in the Institute of Information and Media Studies.

Responsibilities:

1. In the research area: conducting both individual and team research in the field of social communication and media studies and publishing its results in the journals or books recognised by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education; participating in scholarly contests, including applying for internal, national and international grants.
2. In the teaching area: conducting classes in selected field, e.g. communication with the selected AI model, information management, information science, data analysis, visualisation tools, data processing and Business Intelligence (MS Power BI, MS Excel).
3. In the organisational area: participating in the organisation of academic conferences and scholarly symposia, editing academic publications, popularising science, participating in commissioned organisational work, participating in recruitment committees, etc.

Required documents

1. Personal questionnaire of the person applying for employment (download Personal questionnaire).
2. Curriculum Vitae.
3. Photocopy(s) of diploma(s) attesting to the award of doctoral or post-doctoral degree.
4. Statement of whether the University of Wroclaw will be the primary workplace in the event of winning the competition (download Workplace statement).
5. Declaration regarding the scientific discipline in which the candidate will conduct research; in the case of persons conducting research in more than one discipline: percentual commitment in each of the disciplines (download Declaration of scientific discipline).
6. Self-presentation containing a description of the candidate’s scientific activity, level of internationalization, organizational activity and teaching activity.
7. A list of the candidate’s research works published in the last 10 years.
8. Electronic versions of the two most important publications that the candidate considers representative of his or her scientific achievements.
9. Application for employment addressed to His Magnificence the Rector.
10. Declaration in connection with Article 113 of the Higher Education and Science Act (download Declaration – Article 113).

If you provide us with data voluntarily in your application other than what is necessary for you to participate in the recruitment procedure, we ask for your consent to their processing, which may read:
– in the case of ordinary data: ‘I consent to the processing of my personal data contained in…. (e.g. CV, cover letter or other attached documents) by the University of Wrocław in the recruitment process for the position …’
– for special category data: ‘I consent to the processing of the special categories of my data referred to in Article 9(1) of the GDPR contained in …. (e.g. CV, motivation letter or other attached documents) by the University of Wrocław in the recruitment process for the position …’

All the documents should be send only in an electronic form to the following address: praca@uwr.edu.pl with the subject of the message: “assistant professor.82.ZBAD.INIM.WKSM.MR“.

Additional information:

1. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to contact only selected candidates.
2. Selected candidates may be required to undergo an interview by means of electronic communication allowing audio and video transmission.
3. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.
4. The University of Wrocław reserves the right to cancel the competition.
5. The University of Wrocław does not provide housing.

Information clause for persons participating in the recruitment process