Calling all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars! If you are considering a faculty, researcher, lecturer, postdoc, or other academic-adjacent position, then consider attending the 2025 BIG10 Academia Career Fair, offered in a virtual, highly interactive, and completely free, format! Details and sign up on Handshake soon.

• Meet with academies and research organizations. Interact with recruiters through video, audio, or chat.
• Discover new tenure, non-tenure track (lecturers, researchers,...etc.), postdoctoral trainee, and fellowship career opportunities. All levels of graduate students and postdocs (first years to those finishing) are welcome to explore career opportunities in academia and research.
• Never wait in line, ever. Pre-schedule individual (10 minutes - recommended for those looking for jobs now or completing their program in 2026) and/or group sessions (30 minutes) with organizations ahead of the fair or on the day-of the career fair. Both types of sessions are limited, so don't miss out! Once registered, you can add sessions with recruiters for specific organizations attending the career fair.

DEADLINE for C.V. submissions is Tuesday, October 7, at 9:00 PM Pacific Time. This is a HARD deadline, so submit early just in case you have technical difficulties. It is recommended that you add your C.V. on Handshake, as this platform is a great place to search and apply for positions at your level.  

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This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

What is Research? (2026) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.

This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.

What is Research? (2026) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.

This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.

The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.