JOB INFO
- Job Identification: 7255
- Job Category: Academic
- Posting Date: 28/04/2023, 10:41
- Apply Before: 09/06/2023, 00:59
- Degree Level: Post-Doctorate
- Job Schedule: Full time
- Job Shift: Day
- Locations: Drummond Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9XP, GB
- Health and Safety Requirements: No key hazards identified for this post
- Criminal Record Check: No criminal record check required
- Contract Type: Open Ended
JOB DESCRIPTION
UE08: £44,414.00 – £52,841.00 Per Annum
College of Science and Engineering / School of GeoSciences / Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment
Open Ended Contract – Permanent: Full Time – 35 Hours per Week
The School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Human Geography (Climate Justice/Environmental Justice) on an open-ended contract.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual who can join our team in Human Geography. Their research interests will address questions of climate justice and environmental justice, variously impacting communities, places, and resources in the global north and/or the global south. We welcome applicants whose academic work investigates a range of issues including, but not limited to: impacts of energy infrastructures and extractive industries; lived conditions in toxic or compromised landscapes; the politics of climate justice activism, protest and resistance; rights of nature theory; water resources and water equity; environmental rights and justice-based causes of indigenous peoples, racialised and marginalized groups; climate-change enforced migration and displaced populations.
We are looking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic teacher who will make innovative and high-quality contributions to the undergraduate MA Geography curriculum, and in our suite of postgraduate taught MSc degree programmes. The role will involve course design, delivery, assessment and organization, field-class teaching, supervision of undergraduate and graduate students, cohort leadership of students, and contributions to Institute and School citizenship and administration.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- A PhD in Human Geography or a related discipline.
- Ability to deliver high quality geographical research in the field of climate justice/environmental justice
- Experience of teaching in an interdisciplinary programme in a higher education setting and assessing student performance in the broad area of climate justice/ environmental justice
- Knowledge of current teaching and learning methods in higher education
As part of your application, please include the following:
- CV (including names, affiliations and email contacts for three Referees)
- Cover letter
- Research Statement (2 pages max)
- Teaching Statement (2 pages max)
Click here for a copy of the full job description.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An intellectually stimulating and collegial place to work supported by collegial colleagues who will help you to succeed in your career. For information on the reward package, including a a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBTQ+ equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
The School of GeoSciences is actively trying to build a more diverse academic community. We strongly welcome applications from under-represented groups within the department, including candidates who are LGBTQ+, disabled and from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Informal Enquiries
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Head of Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, Professor Hayden Lorimer hayden.lorimer@ed.ac.uk
ABOUT US
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.
With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.
A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.
The School holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to gender equality in higher education. Our aim is to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.
More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences
