5 appointments in Lancaster's Sociology Department.
<br>Please forward to any interested parties. We are particularly interested in
<br>scholars in the following research and teaching areas:
<br>* Digital technologies, immersive media, and social change
<br>* Non-Western media cultures and practices
<br>* Gender, Sexuality and Media
<br>* Environment, Science and Technology
<br>* Violence and Society
<br>* Social Work (Children and Families or Adults)
<br>Other areas of research in the department include: child protection and family
<br>justice, climate change, crises, disability studies, energy demand, food
<br>shortages, contested futures, mental distress, migration, mobilities security,
<br>social justice, and welfare reform. For further details about the department
<br>see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/
<br>See below for full advert which can be found at
<br>https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A2368
<br>
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<br>Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader/ Professor of Inequalities, in the
<br>disciplines of Sociology, Social Work or Media and Cultural Studies
<br>Sociology
<br>Salary: Lecturer: 33,518 - 47,722, Senior Lecturer/Reader: 50,618 -
<br>56,950, Professor: minimum of 63,836
<br>Closing Date: Sunday 30 September 2018
<br>Interview Date: Thursday 18 October 2018
<br>Reference: A2368
<br>Announcing a major investment in the field of inequalities teaching and
<br>research, Lancaster University seeks to appoint five people to join the
<br>Department of Sociology, within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. We
<br>are seeking outstanding individuals, who can contribute to teaching, research
<br>and service, commensurate with the candidate's experience and seniority.
<br>Candidates will be expected to outline a detailed research plan that will
<br>contribute to social research on inequalities (such as those based on class,
<br>race, gender, sexuality, disability and age).
<br>For Senior Lecturer and above preference will be given to candidates with a
<br>track record of income generation, publication, successful supervision of
<br>postgraduate research students, outstanding undergraduate teaching portfolio.
<br>Posts will be housed within the three teaching programmes in the Department:
<br>Sociology, Social Work, Media and Cultural Studies (& Gender Studies).
<br>Lancaster Sociology is an exciting, research-oriented department and home to
<br>academics from a range of different disciplines attracted by the stimulating
<br>'post-disciplinary' critical intellectual environment. The Department was
<br>rated in the top three for sociology in the last UK Research Excellence
<br>Framework, rated 46th best sociology department in the world, and our
<br>undergraduate programmes are consistently rated in the top ten in the UK for
<br>their subject areas.
<br>The Department is committed to forms of 'public sociology' that investigate,
<br>protect and enhance the interests of publics in changing and often dangerous
<br>times. Whilst the field is open we are particularly interested in candidates
<br>whose expertise on inequalities relates to any of the following research and
<br>teaching areas:
<br>* Digital technologies, immersive media, and social change
<br>* Non-Western media cultures and practices
<br>* Gender, Sexuality and Media
<br>* Environment, Science and Technology
<br>* Violence and Society
<br>* Social Work (Children and Families or Adults)
<br>Other areas of research in the department include: child protection and family
<br>justice, climate change, crises, disability studies, energy demand, food
<br>shortages, contested futures, mental distress, migration, mobilities security,
<br>social justice, and welfare reform. For further details about the department
<br>see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/
<br>Applications at all levels, from Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, Senior
<br>Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, Reader, Professor to Distinguished Professor are
<br>welcomed. Job share and part-time arrangements will be considered.
<br>Informal enquiries may be made to Chris Grover, Head of Department, Tel: +44
<br>(0)1524 594122, email c.grover@lancaster.ac.uk or Imogen Tyler Tel: +44
<br>(0)7920 828714 email i.tyler@lancaster.ac.uk
<br>We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.
<br>
<br>
<br>Claire Waterton, Professor in Environment and Culture, Department of
<br>Sociology,
<br>http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/about-us/people/claire-waterton
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