Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Health Humanities

About us

SELCS-CMII is a world-leading centre for teaching, research and public engagement, focussing on the literature, linguistic traditions, history, sociology, philosophy, art, film and other aspects of the cultures associated with the languages we teach (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Old Norse, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish).

Our taught programmes are innovative and interdisciplinary; academic colleagues and students engage with many urgent concerns facing the world today by understanding Europe’s languages, cultures and histories and their impact globally.

CMII fosters interdisciplinary, intercultural and international approaches to arts and humanities disciplines at graduate level. It draws on expertise at UCL from diverse fields, including literature, art, film, history, politics, geography, archaeology, education, politics and philosophy, encouraging innovative approaches to the subject areas.

Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/european-languages-culture/programmes-and-courses for more information.

About the role

The post-holder will undertake teaching, supervision and associated administrative duties in SELCS-CMII. This involves teaching and convening modules, contributing to other teaching and to supervision of dissertations, and acting as Programme Director for the MA Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health.

The post-holder will also be expected to contribute to teaching in cognate disciplines according to their own expertise, such as Gender and Sexuality Studies or Comparative Literature.

They will teach a pro rata load in accordance with departmental and institutional policy; depending on other responsibilities, this is likely to entail 250-300 contact hours per academic year, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, to be determined in consultation with the Director of Health Humanities and the Head of Department.

All teaching takes place in person on our Bloomsbury campus.

As well as delivering seminars and lectures, the successful candidate will be expected to set and mark essay topics for their own modules, to tutor MA students and supervise MA dissertations (in the period April-September 2026), and to play a part in the normal duties of teaching and administration within CMII.

Please see the Job description for further details.

About you

We are interested in application from candidate with a PhD or equivalent in a relevant discipline such as Bioethics, Public Health Ethics, Philosophy, or Medical Humanities.

Applicant should show evidence of a teaching and/or scholarly specialism in health ethics and medical humanities.

They will be able to teach courses at postgraduate taught level and have proven ability to manage time and work to deadlines.

We are looking for candidate willing to commitment to high quality teaching and continuous professional development.

More details of the person specification can be found in the Job description.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below :

- 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

- On-Site nursery On-site gym

- Enhanced maternity paternity and adoption pay

- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service Discounted medical insurance.

Please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

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