Associate Professorship of Development Studies

The successful candidate will be expected to teach, supervise, and examine on the MPhil in Development Studies, including economics, ideally from a critical perspective; to conduct advanced research; to engage in knowledge exchange with a wide range of policy makers, practitioners and other non-academic stakeholders, with a view to enhancing the impact of research; and to play a part in the administrative work of the Department and the College.

An Associate Professorship is the main academic career grade at Oxford with a focus on research and teaching, spanning the full range of professorial grades in the USA. Applications are welcome from both early career and established scholars with a track record of research in economics with focus on one or more regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East or pertaining to institutions of development in the Global South. Applicants should have completed a doctorate in in economics for development with an interest in mixed methods and political economy, and should demonstrate an outstanding research and publication record, commensurate with stage of academic career and informed by a critical and theoretically-grounded approach to development challenges.

The post will be held in conjunction with a Fellowship at St Antony’s College. The Associate Professor will be a Fellow of the College, and will be expected to take on a small number of College Advisees. From time to time, Fellows may also be asked to undertake specific administrative duties for which they would be separately remunerated. All Fellows are appointed as Trustees of the College and a full induction into your charity trustee role will be provided. Trustees are members of the College’s Governing Body which meets twice each term.

If you would like to discuss this post and find out more about joining the academic community at Oxford, please contact Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, chair of the Selection Committee at diego.sanchez-ancochea@qeh.ox.ac.uk. All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.

The start date of the post is 1^st September 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a CV, a supporting statement and details of three referees, indicating whether the University may contact them, as part of your online application.

Only applications received before midday (UK time) on Friday 14^th April 2023 can be considered.

Interviews are likely to take place in the weeks commencing on 8^th May 2023 and 15^th May 2023.

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