Call for Applications: 2027 Academic Writing Mentorship in Educational Media Research
The Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute invites applications for the 2027 Academic Writing Mentorship in Educational Media Research. This mentorship offers early-career scholars from all over the world working in the field of educational media research the opportunity to write up their research results for publication in a renowned and established journal under the guidance of an experienced mentor team.
Over the course of two months, in phases of intensive writing alternating with regular online sessions with the institute’s academic writing mentors, the successful candidate will focus on one writing project – a research article of around 7,000 words on a study topic for which the candidate has already carried out research (including fieldwork and data evaluation, where applicable). Our experienced team will guide the candidate through the process of transforming the results of their research into an article suitable for publication.
The topic of the project should be firmly located in the field of educational media research, exploring how knowledge is constituted and conveyed via formal and informal educational media in their institutional, sociocultural, political, economic and historical contexts. Educational media can comprise media both for use in schools (such as textbooks, educational films, OER and digital technologies, including learning platforms, apps, adaptive learning software or products based on generative AI) and media beyond the school with an educational relevance (such as museums or memorials) or appropriation (e.g. comics). A study might, for example, explore how these media are produced, appropriated, approved and contested in political, sociocultural and educational contexts and examine the roles they play in fostering concepts of identity and belonging.
The mentorship is open to studies from a wide range of disciplines. Contributions from sociology of knowledge might examine how discourses and educational media mutually inform one another; studies from history of education might evaluate these media as sources with which to reconstruct education-related shifts; work from media studies might explore how the affordances of educational media affect their appropriation and vice-versa; research from political science might inquire as to the agency of educational media as mirrors, objects and instruments of political discourses and scholars of peace and conflict studies might examine how state institutions use or misuse these media in their portrayals of conflicts, treaties and peace processes.
The mentorship will last two months, as convenient for the successful candidate and the mentors. During this period, we expect the candidate to dedicate a considerable portion of their time to their writing project, with the objective of completing a publishable research article by the end of the mentorship. The working language will be English and the work and communication will take place remotely. The resulting article will be submitted for publication to the institute’s open access journal, the Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (JEMMS), published by Berghahn Journals, New York.
Applicants should send a one-page CV, a publication list and an abstract of 300 words describing their project and the status of their research (including an overview of data or results) and explaining the significance of the project for the field of educational media research. Applications should be sent as one PDF document to kopisch(at)gei.de by 31 December 2026.
