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Lecturer in Critical Global Health

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£51,974 - £61,021 per annum including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
14 Oct 2024
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Academic Discipline
Arts & Humanities
Job Type
Academic Posts
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

About us

The Department of Global Health & Social Medicine is a unique interdisciplinary community of students, teachers and researchers. Together, we explore the complex social determinants of health, illness and ageing.

 

Founded in 2012, we are now ranked within the top 10 sociology departments in the UK. Our internationally-recognised expertise, consultancy work and contributions to policy development are utilised by a myriad of organisations and networks.

 

By connecting social scientists, biomedical researchers and clinicians, we deliver research-led teaching that investigates the ways in which advances in biomedicine and biotechnology are changing expectations on life and health, as well as the nature of medical practice.

About the role

The Department invites applications for a Lecturer in the area of Critical Global Health.  We are interested in applicants who ask fundamental questions about the social, political, epistemic, economic, or historical stakes of global health research, in ways that are oriented toward realising greater social justice whether in health policy in particular or in broader social or political domains.

 

You should hold a PhD in any relevant social science (e.g., sociology, anthropology) or interdisciplinary field (e.g., science and technology studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies). Potential focal areas of interest might include but are not limited to domains such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, disability rights, LGBTQ rights, Indigenous health, antiracism, decolonisation, migration. The range of health topics that might be explored is also open, and could include such topics as social and political determinants of health, post/pandemic health policy-making, health care infrastructures and supply chains, access to medicines and medical technologies, digital technologies, climate change, or other topics, in domains including but not limited to infectious disease, chronic disease, reproductive health, mental health, ageing and the life course. As an interdisciplinary department we are also open to candidates who employ any social science methods, including quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. You should have an outstanding track-record of research, publications, and external funding relative to career stage, and have the ability to demonstrate a clear forward-looking trajectory in research with a clear potential to attract research grant income.

 

You will be expected to make a major contribution to teaching on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, including convening core undergraduate modules in global health and social medicine, and to provide student supervision at all levels. You will have relevant teaching experience and excellent communication skills. Experience with the academic environment in the UK is an advantage. You will be expected to carry out administrative duties within the Department. A commitment to collegiality is essential, as is the ability and willingness to engage in constructive dialogue with researchers and practitioners in a variety of contexts, and with policy makers. You will be responsible to the Head of Department of Global Health & Social Medicine.

 

At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

 

The preferred start date for the successful candidate is in January 2025.

 

This is a full time post, and you will be offered an indefinite  contract

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

 

Essential criteria

  1. PhD in a relevant social science or interdisciplinary field and particular expertise in critical global health.
  2. Strong research profile for career stage, as demonstrated through lead authorship of well-placed publications, and a promising pipeline of research publications in development.
  3. Demonstrable ability to design and deliver the teaching needed by GHSM’s programmes, especially core undergraduate modules in global health and social medicine.
  4. Capability to contribute to the department’s administration.
  5. Openness to multidisciplinary department and collegiality.

 

Desirable criteria

  1. Research agenda that complements and extends existing areas of expertise within the department.
  2. Track record of external grant capture.
  3. Experience convening modules in the UK.
  4. Potential for impact beyond the academy, through reaching broader audiences and/or influencing public policy.
  5. Potential to contribute to the leadership of the department’s endeavours to enhance equity, diversity, and inclusion for staff and students.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

 

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

 

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

 

Interviews are due to be held in late October

 

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

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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