Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics

St Edmund Hall proposes to appoint a Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics from the beginning of Michaelmas Term 2025 to the end of Trinity Term 2026 (1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026).

The Lecturer will be expected to provide 4 hours of teaching per week during term time to undergraduates. Please note, this is an average and these hours will not necessarily be evenly spread. The post-holder will be expected to teach undergraduates and visiting students in the core Finals paper in International Relations; and, depending on requirements, one or more of the optional Finals papers in International Relations (International Relations in the Era of Two World Wars; International Relations in the Era of the Cold War). An ability to teach an optional Finals paper in Political Theory (Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau; Political Thought: Bentham to Weber; Marx and Marxism; or Feminst Theory) would be beneficial. In addition, the post-holder may be expected to contribute to the teaching of the Prelims Theory of Politics paper and to supervise a small number of undergraduate dissertations.

The appointment will be made on the Senior Tutors’ Committee recommended scale for 4-hour Stipendiary Lecturers (in the range £11,046 to £12,205 per annum) and will be pensionable with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). The successful candidate will be entitled to a research allowance at the rate of £925 per annum.

The Lecturer will also be entitled to take up to 3 lunches and 1 Formal Hall dinner per week at the Common Table throughout the period of the appointment whenever the College Kitchen is open and the use of a bookable teaching room.

Applications should clearly show how skills and experience meet the criteria contained in the Further Particulars.

View Further Particulars Here

Applications

Applications should be sent by email to recruitment@seh.ox.ac.uk not later than GMT noon on Tuesday, 19 August 2025. Applications should include:

• A short covering letter, of no more than one page, explaining the candidate’s motivations for applying, and how they meet the criteria of the post.
• A CV, detailing career, education, and qualifications (including degree classifications); teaching experience and research in progress or planned; publications, prizes, or awards. The CV should be no longer than four pages and ideally less than two.
• The names of two academic referees (see below).
• A sample of written work of up to 8000 words.

Interviews are expected to take place remotely early in September.

Referees

You are advised to contact your referees before applying, to ensure that they are aware of your application and the requirements for the post, and to ensure that they would be content to write a reference for you for this post if asked to do so, in the event that you are shortlisted. Your application should include for each referee their name, position, relationship to you, postal address, email address and contact telephone number. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to contact their referees and ask them to submit the references directly to us prior to interview.

If you have any queries about the post, please contact the HR Manager at recruitment@seh.ox.ac.uk.

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