Associate Professor in Politics or International relations

Working at Durham College   

A globally excellent centre of educating and analysis excellence, a heat and pleasant place to work, a singular and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different. 

As one of many UK’s main universities, Durham is an unbelievable place to outline your profession. The College is situated inside an attractive historic metropolis, residence to a UNESCO World Heritage Web site, and surrounded by beautiful countryside. Our gifted students and researchers from all over the world are tackling international points and making a distinction to folks’s lives.   

We consider that inspiring our folks to do excellent issues at Durham allows Durham folks to do excellent issues on the earth. Being part of Durham is about extra than simply the success of the College, it’s additionally about contributing to the success of town, county and group. 

Our College Technique is constructed on three pillars of analysis, training and wider scholar expertise, but in addition on our eager sense of group and of inspiring others to realize their potential.  

Our Goal and Values  

We wish our College to be a spot the place folks may be free to be themselves, it doesn’t matter what their id or background. Collectively, we rejoice distinction, worth each other and are every chargeable for creating an inclusive group that’s respectful and truthful for all. 

Discover out extra about the advantages of working on the College and what it’s prefer to reside and work within the Durham space on our Why Durham? data web page.    

The Division 

The Faculty of Authorities and Worldwide Affairs at Durham College seeks to nominate a gifted particular person to the function of Affiliate Professor to work on an thrilling initiative that seeks to ascertain a brand new Accountable Area Innovation Centre. That is an inter-disciplinary centre bringing collectively consultants in house know-how, enterprise and governance from throughout Durham College. This put up can be primarily based throughout the Faculty of Authorities and Worldwide Affairs. We welcome purposes from these with analysis and educating pursuits throughout the broad subject of Politics and Worldwide Relations and who exhibit a selected curiosity in rising applied sciences, together with space-based applied sciences. We’re notably keen to listen to from candidates with a give attention to analysis and training rooted in political principle; ethics; political financial system; political geography; environmental politics; safety; worldwide relations; diplomacy; and/or arms management. For the primary 4 years, the put up holder will primarily contribute to analysis and grant seize to assist the event of the brand new analysis centre. 

This put up gives an thrilling alternative to make a serious contribution to the event of an internationally wonderful analysis and educating surroundings whereas permitting you unrivalled alternatives to progress and embed your profession in an thrilling and progressive establishment. For extra data, please go to our Faculty web page at Faculty of Authorities and Worldwide Affairs – Durham College in addition to the net web page of the Accountable Area Innovation Centre .  

Affiliate Professors at Durham 

Affiliate Professors on the Schooling and Analysis monitor are inspired to give attention to analysis and educating however are additionally anticipated to interact in wider citizenship to reinforce their very own growth, assist their division and self-discipline, and contribute to the broader scholar expertise.  

Educational colleagues are supported to publish internationally wonderful analysis in excessive influence outputs together with (monographs and journal articles), of their space of curiosity with a give attention to high quality fairly than amount. We’ll absolutely assist your analysis wants together with sensible assist similar to sources to attend conferences and to fund analysis exercise, in addition to a beneficiant analysis depart coverage and a delegated mentor. Sitting alongside world class analysis; educating high quality and innovation is vital to make sure a first-class studying surroundings and curricula for all our college students.

Durham College can be dedicated to making sure excellent educating high quality, stimulating studying environments, and modern curricula for all our college students. You may be supported to develop your educating experience and abilities.  

We’re assured that our recruitment course of permits us to draw and choose the most effective worldwide expertise to Durham. We subsequently supply a diminished probation interval of 1 yr for our new employees and thereafter, topic to passable efficiency, your place can be confirmed as everlasting.

Affiliate Professor in Politics/Worldwide Relations/Political Idea

Candidates should show analysis excellence within the subject(s) of Politics, Worldwide Relations and/or Political Idea, with the flexibility to show our college students to an distinctive normal and to completely interact within the providers, citizenship and values of the College.

We attempt to offer a working and educating surroundings that’s inclusive and welcoming and the place everyone seems to be handled pretty with dignity and respect. Candidates can be anticipated to show these key ideas as a part of the evaluation course of. 

Key duties: 

• Pursue analysis that’s world-leading when it comes to originality, significance and rigour, commensurate with the Division’s persevering with emphasis on worldwide excellence;
• To make a big contribution to the event of profitable analysis mission/ fellowship proposals in pursuit of appropriate nationwide and worldwide funding alternatives to assist analysis and end-user engagement;
• Play a task in related educating and analysis supervision, and contribute to ongoing curriculum growth;
• Contribute to enhancing the standard of the analysis surroundings within the Division, the broader College and past by collaborative analysis exercise.  Contribute to establishing and main analysis teams inside and past the College, and interesting within the mentoring of early profession researchers;
• Contribute considerably to the executive functioning and collegial surroundings of the Division and wider College, enterprise management actions which assist the functioning of the Division and wider College; 
• To completely interact in, champion and improve the values of the Division; 
• Supply lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate ranges as this turns into acceptable to the event stage of the brand new analysis centre, with the chance to show extra broadly throughout the Division over the long term, in addition to participating in associated exercise similar to evaluation;
• To completely interact in and improve the values of the Division;
• To draw and supply wonderful supervision to analysis college students, and to reinforce the Division’s dedication to its vibrant and worldwide postgraduate tradition.
• Perform such different duties as specified by the Head of Division.

Durham College is dedicated to equality, range and inclusion

Equality, range, and inclusion (EDI) are a key part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of all the pieces we do.  We additionally reside by our Goal and Values  and our Employees Code of Conduct.   At Durham we actively work in the direction of offering an surroundings the place our employees and college students can examine, work and reside in a group which is supportive and inclusive. It’s essential to us that each one colleagues undertake actions which are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI.  

We welcome and encourage purposes from those that are at present under-represented in our work pressure, together with folks with disabilities and from racially minoritised ethnic teams.  

You probably have taken a profession break or intervals of depart that will have impacted on the amount and recency of your analysis outputs and different actions, similar to maternity, adoption or parental depart, chances are you’ll want to disclose this in your software. The choice committee will take this under consideration when evaluating your software.  

The College has been awarded the Incapacity Assured Employer standing. In case you are a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure truthful therapy all through the recruitment course of. We’ll make changes to assist the interview course of wherever it’s affordable to take action and, the place profitable, affordable changes can be made to assist folks inside their function.   

Particular person Specification

Candidates should show analysis excellence within the broad subject of Politics, Worldwide Relations and/or Political Idea, with the flexibility to show our college students to an distinctive normal and to completely interact within the providers, citizenship and values of the College. Candidates with a analysis curiosity associated to rising and notably space-based applied sciences can be better off.

This put up gives an thrilling alternative to make a serious contribution to the event of internationally wonderful analysis and educating whereas permitting you unrivalled alternatives to progress and embed your profession in an thrilling and progressive establishment. For extra data, please go to our Faculty web page at Faculty of Authorities and Worldwide Affairs – Durham College in addition to the net web page of the Accountable Area Innovation Centre . The profitable candidate will present important management in creating the centre’s analysis technique and contribute considerably to analysis and grant seize to assist the centre’s growth. 

Analysis  

Candidates should have the capability for and be progressing in the direction of the impartial growth of internationally wonderful analysis that produces high-quality outcomes, together with some work that’s recognised as world-class or that has world-class potential.   

Important Analysis Standards 

Schooling 

Candidates should show important contribution to the event and supply of high-quality educating with a demonstrable contribution to the design of wonderful studying environments & curricula, together with curriculum growth, that allow college students to realize their potential.

Important Schooling Standards

Service, Citizenship and Values 

Lively engagement within the administrative and citizenship necessities of the Division. Constructive contributions to the College’s Goal and Values and to fostering a respectful surroundings, in addition to demonstrating a dedication to equality, range, and inclusion.

Important Service, Citizenship and Values standards

Fascinating Standards

Contact Data 

Division contact for academic-related enquiries 

Faculty contact for academic-related enquiries:

Dr Carly Beckerman,

Faculty of Authorities and Worldwide Affairs, Durham College, Durham, DH1 3TU.

E mail: [email protected]

Contact data for technical difficulties when submitting your software 

In case you encounter technical difficulties when utilizing the web software type, we desire you ship enquiries by e mail.  Please ship your title together with a transient description of the issue you’re experiencing to [email protected]  

Alternatively, chances are you’ll name 0191 334 6801 from the UK, or +44 191 334 6801 from outdoors the UK. This quantity operates through the hours of 09.00 and 17.00 Monday to Friday, UK time.  We’ll usually reply inside one working day (Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays).  

The right way to Apply  

We desire to obtain purposes on-line.    

Please notice that in submitting your software, we can be processing your knowledge.  We’d ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion https://www.dur.ac.uk/ig/dp/privateness/pnjobapplicants/  which supplies data on the collation, storing and use of knowledge.  

What to Submit

All candidates are requested to submit: 

·       A CV

·       A overlaying letter which particulars your expertise, strengths and potential within the necessities set out above 

·       Private analysis plan

·       Two of your most vital items of written work 

·       An EDI & values assertion – (of not more than 500 phrases) which outlines work which you have got been concerned wherein demonstrates your dedication to EDI and our values. I.e. Involvement in high quality, range, and inclusion actions similar to mentoring, volunteering, or attending convention

Your work must be uploaded as PDFs as a part of your software in our recruitment system. Please make sure that your PDFs are usually not bigger than 1MB. Please notice that your work could also be learn by colleagues from throughout the Division and evaluated towards the present REF standards.

Please save all software paperwork along with your title and doc kind as PDF information.

We’ll notify you on the standing of your software at numerous factors all through the choice course of, through automated emails from our e-recruitment system.  Please test your spam/junk folder periodically to make sure you obtain all emails.  

Referees 

It’s best to present 3 tutorial referees they need to not (if doable) embody your PhD supervisor(s).  The bulk must be from a College apart from your individual (save for early profession candidates making use of for his or her first put up). 

References can be requested for candidates who’ve been shortlisted and can be made out there to the panel through the interview course of. 

As a part of your software, you can be requested whether or not you give your consent to your tutorial references being sought must you be invited to attend an interview. We’ll solely request references the place permission has been granted.  

Subsequent Steps 

All purposes can be thought-about; our traditional follow is for colleagues throughout the Division to learn the submitted work of long-listed candidates.   

Brief-listed candidates can be invited to the College, both nearly or in-person and may have the chance to fulfill key members of the Division.  The evaluation for the put up will usually embody a presentation to employees and college students within the Division adopted by an interview and we anticipate that the assessments and interviews will happen over two days in or round nineteenth August 2024. 

Within the occasion that you’re unable to attend in individual on the date provided, it is probably not doable to give you an interview on an alternate date. 

Applicant Steering  

For additional steering in your software please see HERE