Accepted to present your work at ECC2026, but already worried about how to pay for everything? If you are an early-career scholar, we may be able to help you with that! 💰
Application DDL is 17.04.
More info at ⬇️
yecrea.eu/2026/03/18/yecrea-early-career-fee-waivers-and-travel-grants-for-ecc-2026/
@yecrea.bsky.social @ecreacomdem.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social
✨New YECREA Representatives✨
🌿Organisational & Strategic Communication
→Tünde Taxner
🔬Science & Environment Communication
→Sylvia Hayes & Alejandro Carbonell-Alcocer
🌍CEE
→Igor Išpanović
→Karolína Bieliková
📺Children, Youth & Media
→Silvia Rusiñol-Romero
Welcome aboard 💫
🗓️ Thursdays: 26.02, 5.03, 12.03, 19.03
⏰ 17:00–18:30 CET
💸 Free of charge
📜 Certificate for attending 3+ sessions
Open to early-career YECREA members (non-tenured).
Apply here: forms.gle/XrC724vPdJ62...
Deadline: 20 Jan 2026
Questions? yecreanetwork@gmail.com (3/3)
✨ You will:
• Clarify what EDI means in academia
• Use your biography as a resource in applications
• Learn to decode job calls strategically
• Craft a grounded, meaningful teaching statement (2/3)
🚀 New call for participants!
We’re organising a free workshop series on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in Academic Careers, funded by the ECREA EDI Grant. #ECRs are expected to articulate their positionality, and navigate a job market. This series offers a space to develop these skills (1/3)
We’re hosting a panel at ECREA and are opening up our space for ECRs:
👉 Young scholars face shifting grounds, from political turns to technological transformations
💭 We invite proposals that explore how these forces are reshaping what it means to build a career in communication and media research
📢 Call for YECREA Section Reps
Are you an #ECR in comm studies? Join YECREA and help shape your field!
We’re looking for new reps for:
🌍 Central & East-European Network
🌿 Science & Environment Communication
🏢 Organizational & Strategic Communication
📝 Deadline: 15 Nov 2025
yecrea.eu/2025/10/14/c...
Our colleague Emilija Gagrcin joined 11 early-career researchers from across Europe at the first Summer School for Young Media Scholars, hosted by the Council of Europe 🇪🇺 Over two days, they explored how academia and institutions can collaborate. Excited to keep building these bridges! 🤝💬
✅ Data collection, analysis & writing
✅ Lead publications & present at global conferences
✅ International applicants welcome (UK journalism knowledge needed)
🎓 PhD must be submitted by July 1
Apply now 👉 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...
🚨 Job Opportunity: Post-doc in Journalism & Democracy 🌍📰
Join an international research project based in London at City St George’s, University of London, exploring how independent journalism is defined, practiced & protected across the UK, Brazil, Canada & South Africa.
Open #postdoc position in #science #communication at @ikmz.bsky.social – one that I fully and genuinely recommend.
I've worked 6+ years in this team, and it's these very colleagues, NB @mss7676.bsky.social, and the exceptional research conditions that make me sad to leave #IKMZ soon 🙏
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Alongside @ushar.bsky.social and @devinasarwatay.bsky.social, Joke Hermes and I get to think about past, present and future practice of doing audience research on April 15 ✨ Open to anyone and organised by the 'Audience and Reception Studies' section @yecrea.bsky.social.
Great onboarding meeting with new & ongoing #YECREA reps! Excited to keep supporting early career researchers in media & communication studies through networking, mentorship & collaboration. Let’s make an impact together!
Attention #ECRs! @yecrea.bsky.social is searching for 16 new YECREA section representatives. It’s a great opportunity for pre- and postdoctoral researchers to engage in academia and broaden their network. I enjoyed my time in YECREA very much - happy to answer any questions!
tinyurl.com/cfpyecrea
4. Film Studies 📽️
5. International and Intercultural Communication 🌎
6. Media, Cities and Space 📱🌆
7. Mediatization 📺
8. Philosophy of Communication 📚🗣️
9. Women's Network 👯♀️
Apply now: yecrea.eu/2024/12/10/c...
Would you like to be a YECREA representative? Are you a #ECR or #phdstudent in Europe?
The YECREA Network has 9 vacant positions within different Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups. 🙌
1. Children, Youth, and Media 👦🤳
2. Communication History 🏛️
3. Digital Culture and Communication 📢
Best view at an @yecrea.bsky.social party ever? I’d say so! 👏 @sandrabanjac.bsky.social @birteleonhardt.bsky.social
In the meantime, you can stay up to date by simply signing up for our newsletter (Log in to the ecrea.eu intranet >> Go to your profile by clicking on your name in the top right corner >> Click on “Edit profile” >> Become a member of YECREA)
We would like to thank all #ECRs and everyone else who came to our #yecrea event at #ECREA2024 yesterday! We're so happy that the event was such a success and hope you enjoyed the view on the rooftop terrace as much as we did! We're already looking forward to future meetups! 🤗
It also means saying goodbye to Sandra Banjac , Phoebe Maares and Antonio Cuartero as #YECREA management who have done an incredible job organizing (pre)conferences, reviewing grant applications, supporting all #yecrea reps and much more! Thank you so much for your fantastic work 🫶👏
Yesterday at #ECREA24 we had our #yecrea business meeting where among other things we elected the new YECREA management team!
Emilija Garcin, Ekwutosi Sanita Nwakpu and Alba Diez-Gracia take on this important and exciting role and will represent #ECRs and #PhDs in the upcoming years! ✨🙌
We look forward to continuing the great discussions and sharing the important results with everyone in the future ✨ #staytuned
We had a great time at our #YECREA pre-conference at #ECREA24 in Ljubljana!🙏Besides highly interesting presentations from our participants, we had fruitful and solution-oriented discussions on how to find meaning as an #ECR or #PhD in the precarious academic environment🙌
❗️Attention all #ECREA2024 attendees❗️
📅Save the date: Our #yecrea business meeting will take place on Thursday, September 26 from 4-4:40 pm in room FDV 19 🙌
It's a great opportunity to meet other #ECRs and get to know the new #yecrea management team. Please attend if you can✨
💫 Join our team 💫! We are advertising a postdoc position
(6 years, 100%). Deadline for applications: August 25, 2024. If you are interested, please check for more info here ⬇️
t.co/HK2yQvu5BU
We're looking for a new postdoc! If you have questions, feel free to reach out!
A great selection of impressive PhD studies for YECREA PhD colloquium, enjoyed a lot to participate as respondent; thanks so much to @bissieanderson.bsky.social and Lada Price for making this happen; best start to ECREA Journalism Studies conference.
Have you been accepted to #ECREA? 🎉 Here's a great opportunity for #ECRs to network! #YECREA is organising a FREE pre-conference for #ECC2024 🙌
We are looking for a new #YECREA Representative for the Communication & Democracy section 🙌 So if you want to get involved and become active with us, apply! More info: yecrea.eu/2024/02/15/c...