Lecturer in Politics

Teaching & Research

The School of Law and Politics is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate 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 the past decade 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, namely Global Governance: Wales, Europe and Beyond; Conflict, Security and Society; Law and Politics of Technology; Social Justice and Alternative Futures; and Future Generations and Sustainability. 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 an outstanding candidate to join the School as a Lecturer in Politics at Grade 6 with expertise in quantitative political behaviour, political psychology, and/or public opinion, with particular interest in electoral behaviour in multilevel systems.

We are particularly interested in candidates whose expertise extends and complements existing expertise in the department in this area.

The successful candidate will have a burgeoning research profile commensurate to their career stage. They will be expected to contribute to research and other research-related activities of the School.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrable ability to teach to a high standard and will be expected to contribute to the teaching programme of the department at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Past experience teaching quantitative methods at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level is particularly valued, as is experience working with experimental designs and/or large-scale longitudinal survey data.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the success of the school by undertaking administrative roles within the Department, the School, and the University as appropriate. 

For further information about the Department and its work, please contact Dr Jon Kirkup, Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, at HeadofPolitics@cardiff.ac.uk

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

This post is full time and open-ended, to start in the first or second semester of the 2026-2027 academic year.

Salary: £41,064 - £46,049 per annum (Grade 6)

Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are usually made at bottom of scale, unless in exceptional circumstances.

Closing date: Friday, 21 August 2026

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