Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Anthropology

Salary:

Lecturer Grade 8 £49,490.82 - £58,300.82 LA

Senior Lecture Grade 9 £59,926.82 - £68,819.82 LA

Location: Bloomsbury, London Hours: 35 per week

About the Department

The Department of Anthropology and Sociology is a world-leading research-led department. Its academics and research students work across a wide spectrum of anthropological, regional, and theoretical issues, including medical and psychological anthropology, food, migration, political economy and politics, conflict, gender, race, infrastructure, climate change, religion, critical theory and innovative ethnographic methods.

About the Role

The role and its responsibilities

The post is open to outstanding anthropologists with the requisite teaching experience and topical expertise to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate modules, as well as research experience in a range of thematic specialisms. We are keen to recruit specialists in digital anthropology, the anthropology of technology, and climate change, but are also open to other areas that complement the existing specialisms in the department.

About you

You will need to demonstrate the following experience, qualifications and skills:

• A PhD in Social/Cultural Anthropology or closely related field with strong track record of publications contributing to the department’s excellent research profile;
• Provide academic advising, supervise dissertations, doctoral research and hold administrative roles
• Demonstrable experience in developing and delivering modules at university level;
• Broad knowledge of social anthropology, with topical expertise to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
• Achievement of quality research and outputs;
• Awareness of and the ability to accommodate a diversity of identities and protected characteristics in an academic environment;
• Strong interpersonal and time management skills, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively, meet varied deadlines, and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

You can find further information, along with a full list of duties and responsibilities, in the Job Pack.

How to Apply: To apply, please click on the ‘Apply’ button above.

Closing date:

Completed applications must be received by 23:59 on the closing date of 21 April 2023 to be considered. Interviews to be held in the week commencing 8 May 2023.

Further information

For informal discussion about the role please contact Professor Marloes Janson, Head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, mj19@soas.ac.uk. If you have any questions or require any assistance with regards to the application process, please contact hr-recruitment@soas.ac.uk

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK or have limited leave to remain in the UK and associated right to work for the duration of their employment with SOAS, in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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We would particularly welcome applications from candidates from working class, first generation Higher Education, the Global South, Black, Asian or other minority ethnic and underrepresented groups. All appointment decisions will be made on merit, following a fair and competitive process.

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