Lecturer in Economic Geography (Teaching & Scholarship)

Department: School of Geography
Salary: £44,931 – £47,414 per annum (Grade 5)
Reference: QMUL30775
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 21 October 2022
Closing date: 10 November 2022

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Overview

About the Role

The School of Geography is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Economic Geography (fixed term for 8 months, 1 January 2023–31 August 2023). The appointee will make a range of contributions to the School’s educational programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including convening our first year module ‘Cities and Regions in Transition’ and contributing to Masters’ teaching. They will also serve as an Advisor to students and supervise dissertation work.

About You

The successful candidate will have been awarded a PhD (or equivalent) in Geography or a related discipline. They will have teaching experience appropriate to their career stage, and passion and commitment to delivering an outstanding student experience to a diverse student population at both undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as being from a Black, Asian or other minority ethnic group as these groups are underrepresented in Human Geography at Queen Mary and more broadly within the discipline in the UK. Queen Mary is committed to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). The University holds a Silver Athena SWAN award for advancing gender equality, is a Stonewall Diversity Champion , and offers a number of development programmes including Springboard , Aurora and B-MEntor .

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum, a season ticket loan scheme, staff networks and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work-life balance and family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is full time and will be based at our Mile End campus. The starting salary will be £44,931 – £47,414 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. The successful candidate will need to be available to take up the post on 1 January 2023.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

Informal enquiries may be made by email to the Head of School, Professor Kavita Datta, [email protected] .

To apply, please click on the link below.

The closing date for applications is 10 November 2022.

Interviews will be held shortly thereafter.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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