Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History (Education and Scholarship)

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)

This full-time submit is accessible from 1st September 2024 to thirty first August 2026 within the Division of Classics, Historical Historical past, Faith and Theology with an open specialism within the area of historic historical past.

The function

You’ll be a part of a big and dynamic division that provides a spread of single and joint-honours programmes in Classics, Classical Research and Historical Historical past tailor-made to college students from all backgrounds. We’re happy with our dedication to supply coaching in historic languages in any respect ranges, with massive numbers taking our freshmen programs yearly, and of our continuous dedication to increase the vary and variety of our analysis and educating past the standard core of the self-discipline. Our analysis is extensively recognised for its dedication to interdisciplinarity and engagement with the broader world and we’re dwelling to a thriving neighborhood of postgraduate college students. We search a brand new colleague who shares our dedication to inspirational educating, to fostering and amplifying numerous and marginalised voices inside Classics and Historical Historical past, to shaping a extra inclusive self-discipline, and to the advantages that our self-discipline can deliver to the broader world.

You’ll assist the supply of educating throughout a spread of programmes throughout the Division of Classics, Historical Historical past, Faith and Theology. It will embrace the design, growth and manufacturing of educating and studying materials and the supply of educating throughout a spread of historic historical past modules as much as MA stage. That is prone to embrace the next modules: Roman Historical past: Issues and Sources; Greek Historical past: Issues and Sources; Historical Sources (Written Proof): Tyranny.

About you

You’ll:

• Possess adequate breadth or depth of specialist and core information within the self-discipline, demonstrated by a PhD or equal in Classics and Historical Historical past, to develop educating programmes, and train and assist studying on historic historical past modules
• Use a spread of supply strategies to enthuse and have interaction college students
• Take part in and develop exterior networks to construct relationships for future actions, and contribute to pupil recruitment and outreach work
• Have proof of fantastic educating, recognized by peer evaluation, and have made an impression at self-discipline stage past your individual educating
• Be anticipated to work in direction of Fellow of the HEA standing, the place applicable, and attend formal CPD referring to this

Please make sure you learn the Job Description and Individual Specification for full particulars of this function.

What we will give you:

• Freedom (and the assist) to pursue your mental pursuits and to work creatively throughout disciplines
• Help groups that perceive the College vast educating objectives and associate with our teachers accordingly
• An Innovation, Affect and Enterprise directorate that works intently with our teachers offering specialist assist for exterior engagement and growth

• Our Exeter Educational initiative helps excessive performing teachers to realize their potential and develop their profession
• A large number of workers advantages together with sector main advantages round maternity, adoption and shared parental go away (as much as 26wks full pay), Paternity go away (as much as 6wks full pay), and a Fertility Therapy Coverage

• A ravishing campus set within the coronary heart of gorgeous Devon

The College of Exeter

We’re a member of the distinguished Russell Group of research-intensive universities and within the high 200 universities on the earth (Instances Greater Training World College Rankings 2024 and QS World College Rating 2024).  We mix world-class educating with world-class analysis, attaining a Gold score within the Instructing Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold rankings for Pupil Expertise and Pupil Outcomes.

Our world-leading analysis impression has grown greater than every other Russell Group college in recent times, and we’re dwelling to a few of the world’s most influential researchers, searching for to reply a few of the most elementary points going through humankind at present.  Greater than 99 % of our analysis is of worldwide high quality and 47 % is world-leading (2021 Analysis Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with trade, enterprise and neighborhood companions to boost the impression of analysis and training and enhance the employability of our college students. Examine our world main analysis – Inexperienced Futures and the way we’re remodeling training for a altering world. We’re positioned in a good looking a part of the nation and Exeter (a quick rising tech hub) is one in all only some UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Artistic Metropolis

Our Equality, Variety and Inclusion Dedication

We’re dedicated to making sure affordable changes can be found for interviews and workplaces.

While all candidates will likely be judged on benefit alone, we significantly welcome purposes from teams at present underrepresented inside our working neighborhood. 

With over 30,000 college students and seven,000 workers from 150 totally different nations we provide a various and fascinating surroundings the place our range is widely known and valued as a serious energy. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive tradition the place all members of our neighborhood are supported to thrive; the place numerous voices are heard by our engagement with evidence-based constitution frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Venture Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Constitution Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Variety Champion) and as a Incapacity Assured employer.

We’re proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome purposes from service folks.

Additional data

For an off-the-cuff dialogue concerning the function, please contact Professor Rebecca Langlands, Head of Classics, Historical Historical past, Faith and Theology, [email protected] .