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Research Assistant Positions

Prof. Paul Goode is seeking two Research Assistants to assist with the SSHRC-funded research projects “Russia’s Media at War” and “Democracy in Exile” for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Description: The Research Assistants (RAs) will help with two research projects related to the role of Russia’s media and the war in Ukraine. Both projects build upon and extend the tracking of war narratives in Russia’s domestic media through RuMOR (Russian Media Observation and Reporting), which has been tracking the war in Russia’s media since February 2022. The first project, “Russia’s Media at War,” examines the extent of influence of Russia’s war narratives in other countries’ media: Georgia, Germany, Kazakhstan, and Canada. The second project, “Democracy in Exile,” examines the weaponization of media narratives about Russians who fled the country in the wake of the war. Both projects primarily entail the use of the Integrum database for data collection from Russian media and MaxQDA to code and analyze broadcast transcripts. Training will be provided for the use of each platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Weekly check-in meetings with Prof. Goode and occasional online meetings with project partners.
  • coding and analyzing war narratives in Russian media.
  • transcribing, coding, and analyzing focus groups.
  • updating the project website and social media accounts.
  • preparing background reports and monthly digests.
  • organizing project workshops.
  • coordinating communications with other grant partners.

Commitment: up to 20 hours per week (480 hours total for 2024-2025) at $35/hr. Both positions are renewable for 2025-2026.

Qualifications: Applicants should be enrolled as graduate students at Carleton University and proficient in reading Russian. PhD and advanced undergrad students will also be considered. Familiarity with MaxQDA is desirable but not required.

Please send expressions of interest and CV to Prof. Goode (paul.goode@carleton.ca) by Wednesday, September 25th.