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