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Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% at postgraduate level), from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

The culture at City is built on our shared core values, which means that all employees are expected to behave according to our values: “We care, We learn, We act.”

Background

The School of Policy and Global Affairs is an internationally excellent centre of research and learning on the human condition in all its dimensions. It is home to about 2,500 students and over 100 staff in three departments (Economics, Sociology and Criminology, and International Politics). The School aims to attract outstanding members of academic staff who will produce world-leading and internationally excellent research of benefit to society, provide innovative and exciting programmes of study, and enrich the lives and enhance the career prospects of its students.

The Department of Economics is a dynamic centre for research with core research strengths in microeconomics (both applied and theoretical), macroeconomics, development economics, financial economics and health economics. It has hosted several academic conferences in recent years and runs external and internal seminar series. The Department delivers a growing PhD Programme alongside highly successful BSc and MSc programmes and is part of the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS). For more information, please see our departmental website: https://www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/arts-social-sciences/economics.

Responsibilities

The Department invites applications from outstanding candidates for appointment at the rank of Reader in any field of economics, with particular interest in industrial organisation, competition and regulation and economic theory.

Person Specification

Candidates should demonstrate capability in delivering excellent quality education in the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, in producing world-leading and internationally excellent publications, and in successfully applying for research grants from external bodies. Additionally, they must have significant experience in supporting, supervising and mentoring students and undertaking administrative duties at Programme, Departmental, School and University level. The successful candidate must have an existing track record of world-leading and internationally excellent publications in Economics and a clear plan for submission for future REF exercises, successful grant capture from external bodies and substantive plans for new grant applications.

Additional Information

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

The role is available from 1st September 2024.
Closing date: 25th April 2024 at 11:59pm.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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