Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research)

The School of Law and Politics is seeking to appoint three outstanding candidates to join our internationally-renowned Department of Politics and International Relations.

The Department of Politics and International Relations is a dynamic and growing part of the inter-disciplinary School of Law and Politics. We are an intellectually pluralist and diverse community, with internationally-recognised and long-established strengths in political theory; Welsh politics and devolution; British political history; and UK and European politics and public policy. In recent years the department has invested heavily in enhancing its strength in international relations and global politics, and now has a strong research profile in areas including cold war history; nuclear politics; critical international theory; colonialism and postcolonialism; gender studies; environmental politics; critical military and intelligence studies; and international law. Research and teaching across the department embraces a variety of intellectual and methodological approaches. Moreover, being situated in a School of Law and Politics presents opportunities to innovate across disciplinary boundaries in both teaching and research.

Sub-disciplines across Politics and International Relations are actively engaged in five interdisciplinary research nexuses across the School of Law and Politics: Conflict, Security and Society; Law and Politics of Technology; Social Justice and Alternative Futures; Future Generations and Sustainability; and Global Governance: Wales, Europe and Beyond. These areas are developing a dynamic research environment through a variety of activities, including the development of reading groups and collaborative publications, mentorship, work-in-progress support sessions, the development of joint funding bids, and workshops. Applicants are expected to amplify expertise in these broad areas and further shape the Department’s profile.
 
We are seeking to appoint three outstanding candidates at the level of Lecturer (Grade 7) in the following areas:

• Non-western (especially non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies including but not limited to International Relations and Cold War history 
• Political theory, including but not limited to the history of political thought 
• History and theory of colonialism and its legacies in politics and international relations

In all cases, we are particularly interested in candidates whose expertise extends and complements that already in the department.

For further information about the Department and its work, please contact Professor Peter Sutch at sutchp@cardiff.ac.uk

Website: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/law-politics

These posts are full time and open-ended, to start in the first or second semester of academic year 2025-2026. 

Salary:  £51,753 - £56,535 per annum (Grade 7)

Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale.

Closing date: 7 September 2025

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