Lecturer in Politics of Global South

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The Role

You will conduct research in the politics of the global south and contribute to teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Your research focus will relate to any area of the politics of the global south. We have an interest in maintaining teaching and expanding research focused on Africa to provide cover for our colleague Dr. Laura Routley who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust fellowship for the project "Afterlives of colonial incarceration: African prisons architecture and politics". We value methodological pluralism.

You will have a track-record of publications in the politics of the global south in high impact journals and other outlets commensurate with your career stage. You will have experience of teaching undergraduates and/or postgraduates. You will be collegial and keen to develop your academic career in a collaborative environment that values and supports research, teaching, and impact. We particularly welcome evidence of engagement with non-academic audiences.

This is a fixed-term (3 year) teaching and research lectureship.

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Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Simon Philpott simon.philpott@ncl.ac.uk 

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