Members of this list might be interested in the five new posts (at all
<br>grades, from Lecturer to Professor) that have been created in the
<br>Department of Sociology, Lancaster University. The focus is on inequality,
<br>with the department having a particular interest in scholars with a
<br>research / teaching specialism in one or more the following areas:
<br>
<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>
<br>DETAILS:
<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>
<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,
<br>research and service, commensurate with the candidate’s experience and
<br>seniority. Candidates will be expected to outline a detailed research plan
<br>that will contribute to social research on inequalities (such as those
<br>based on class, race, gender, sexuality, disability and age).
<br>
<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
<br>portfolio. Posts will be housed within the three teaching programmes in the
<br>Department: Sociology, Social Work, Media and Cultural Studies (& Gender
<br>Studies).
<br>
<br>Lancaster Sociology is an exciting, research-oriented department and home
<br>to academics from a range of different disciplines attracted by the
<br>stimulating ‘post-disciplinary’ critical intellectual environment. The
<br>Department was rated in the top three for sociology in the last UK Research
<br>Excellence Framework, rated 46th best sociology department in the world,
<br>and our undergraduate programmes are consistently rated in the top ten in
<br>the UK for their subject areas.
<br>
<br>The Department is committed to forms of ‘public sociology’ that
<br>investigate, protect and enhance the interests of publics in changing and
<br>often dangerous times. Whilst the field is open we are particularly
<br>interested in candidates whose expertise on inequalities relates to any of
<br>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>
<br>Other areas of research in the department include: child protection and
<br>family justice, climate change, crises, disability studies, energy demand,
<br>food shortages, contested futures, mental distress, migration, mobilities
<br>security, social justice, and welfare reform. For further details about the
<br>department see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/
<br>
<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>
<br>Informal enquiries may be made to Chris Grover, Head of Department, Tel:
<br>+44 (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>
<br>We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.
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