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Lecturer in Early Modern World History Education

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date
18 May 2021

Job Details

Lecturer in Early Modern World History Education

Job ID: 021244

Salary: £38,304, including London Weighting Allowance

Posted: 22-Apr-2021

Closing date: 18-May-2021

Business unit: Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Department: History

Contact details: Professor Stephen Lovell, Professor Stephen Lovell

Strand Building   Academic and teaching    


Job description
The Department of History seeks to appoint a Lecturer (Education) in Early Modern World History, tenable for 12 months full-time from 1 September 2021, to cover for Professor Francisco Bethencourt during a period of leave.
 
The post-holder will specialize in Early Modern History; preference will be given to applicants with expertise in the history of religion both in Europe and beyond. Your responsibilities will include teaching the module 7AAH2023 Divided by Faith? The Age of Religious Violence in Early Modern Europe. You will also teach on the modules 4AAH0001 Historical Skills, Sources and Approaches, 4AAH1004 Power, Culture and Belief in Europe 1500-1800 and either 6AAH4005 Nations or 6AAH4012 Authority, as well as making contributions to the MA in Early Modern History. You will also be expected to contribute to the administration and pastoral provision of the Department of History.
 
Applications are welcome from candidates with expertise in Early Modern History and the ability to teach the modules outlined above. Candidates should have submitted a PhD by the date of appointment.
We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented in the Department of History. All applications from members of groups with protected characteristics that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Equality Act are welcomed. 
 
This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 12 months
This is a full-time post – 100% full time equivalent

Key responsibilities

  • Deliver team-taught and specialized teaching at all levels of UG curriculum
  • Contribute to MA teaching and supervision
  • Contribute to administrative and pastoral provision in the Department of History
  • Conduct research on Early Modern History

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
 
Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

  1. PhD in Early Modern History submitted or awarded
  2. Excellent research expertise in Early Modern History
  3. Ability to convene, teach and assess modules relating to Early Modern History across the undergraduate curriculu
  4. Ability to engage students and support their learning
  5. Demonstrable administrative and interpersonal skills, a collaborative ethos, and capacity for team-working
  6. Strong track record in research relative to career stage
  7. Experience of teaching and supporting students at UG level
  8. Ability to teach the modules listed in the role profile

 
Desirable criteria

  1. Experience of teaching and supporting students at PG level

Further information
Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held in June. The selection process will include a presentation to the interview panel.
To assist in the shortlisting process, applicants should make clear in their supporting statement how they meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of their skills and experience. This may include experience gained in employment, education, or during career breaks (such as time out to care for dependents). 

Company

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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