Lecturer in International Relations
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- Grade 6 or Grade 7, £38,304 to £54,534 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
- Closing date
- 19 Jul 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Politics & International Studies, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Lecturers / Assistant Professors
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
The Department of War Studies seeks to recruit a Lecturer in International Relations with a focus on Global Politics and Technology to contribute to the teaching and delivery of degree programmes in the Department, to design and develop modules, and to build our research profile in this area.
Applications are welcome from outstanding candidates whose work engages critical and interdisciplinary approaches in International Relations. We would particularly like to encourage applications from candidates with a strong research profile in one or more of the following areas: critical international social and political thought, postcolonial studies, critical conflict and security studies, border studies and digital politics. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, have a completed PhD in a relevant field, and have demonstrated the potential to publish outstanding research. The person appointed will be expected to carry out their share of administrative duties within the Department.
King’s College London is committed to creating an inclusive environment that promotes equality of opportunity for everyone in its community. As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all suitable qualified persons. However, given that female and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) candidates are currently under-represented, we would welcome applications from BME and female applicants. Overall King’s values the diversity of its staff and student body and recognises that this is both a strength and a defining feature of King’s as a London university in a global context.
The War Studies Department is committed to embedding good diversity and inclusion practice into all of its activities. It actively supports the creation and maintenance of a community that allows all of its members to develop their full potential.
This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 47 months. This is a full-time post.
The selection process will include a panel interview and a presentation. The interviews are envisaged to take place on 30 July 2020. Please note as a result of COVID 19 presentations and interviews will be held virtually.
Please include a CV and cover letter specifying how you address the selection criteria with your application.
For an informal discussion to find out more about the role please contact Prof. Claudia Aradau, Department of War Studies, claudia.aradau@kcl.ac.uk, +44 (0)20 7848 7497.
This advertisement meets the requirements for a Certificate of Sponsorship under Home Office regulations and therefore the university will be able to offer sponsorship for this role.
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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)02078365454
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