Social Policy

The School of Sport and Education is comprised of the Sport Sciences and Education subject areas, both of which have been consistently rated highly in national league tables. This reflects a strong tradition in Sport and Education coupled with significant recent investment in state-of-the-art sports and laboratory facilities for research and teaching....

Grade 10a: Salary £43,312 - £58,157 p.a. The Blavatnik School of Government is seeking to appoint a University Lecturer in Global Health and Public Policy from September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will work at the Blavatnik School and will also be offered a Non-Tutorial Fellowship at Green Templeton...

Applications are invited for appointment to the position of Professor / Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy. You will play a leading role in a vibrant and successful School as a key player in the field, adding to its established international reputation for research and student education. The School of Sociology and Social...

Department of Sociology, Manor Road Building, Oxford Grade 7: Salary in the range £29,541 - £31,331 p.a. The Department of Sociology is seeking an enthusiastic quantitative researcher to work with Dr David Stuckler on his ESRC- and Population Reference Bureau-funded project to evaluate the effects of food prices and markets on...

The Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management of Università Bocconi, Milan (Italy),  http://www.unibocconi.eu/ ,  invites applications for a tenure-track position at the junior faculty level. The research and teaching activities of the Department focus on policy design, implementation, assessment and management, both at the...

Cave Hill Campus Applications are invited for the post of Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) on the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies. The successful applicant should have a distinguished record of scholarly activity in the Social Sciences, with special reference to Caribbean...

Blavatnik School of Government, 10 Merton Street, Oxford Grade 7: £29,541 - £36,298 (with a discretionary range to £39,649) p.a. Applications are invited for a fixed-term 2-year Departmental Lectureship in Public Policy and Management. The post is available from 1 September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. You will...

Starting on or before September 2013 Join a globally-recognised research environment ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide. A PhD research studentship covering tuition fee costs is offered within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Liverpool. Successful candidates will work on their own project within an...

The Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at The University of Manchester is pleased to announce three PhD studentships to fund Doctoral research in any of BWPI’s core themes: Poverty and Social Protection; Global Poverty Reduction—Institutions and Policy; Working out of Poverty; and Urban Poverty, Conflict and Climate Change.  The...

Applications are invited for the above studentship in the School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University, commencing October 2013. Sociological research has shown that athletes exhibit an unusually high tolerance to injury and pain. Many sportspeople take considerable health risks by training and playing while injured or when...