Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History (Education and Scholarship)

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)

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

The position

You’ll be part of a big and dynamic division that provides a variety of single and joint-honours programmes in Classics, Classical Research and Historic Historical past tailor-made to college students from all backgrounds. We’re pleased with our dedication to supply coaching in historical languages in any respect ranges, with giant numbers taking our rookies programs yearly, and of our continuous dedication to develop the vary and variety of our analysis and educating past the standard core of the self-discipline. Our analysis is broadly recognised for its dedication to interdisciplinarity and engagement with the broader world and we’re residence 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 various and marginalised voices inside Classics and Historic Historical past, to shaping a extra inclusive self-discipline, and to the advantages that our self-discipline can convey to the broader world.

You’ll assist the supply of educating throughout a variety of programmes inside the Division of Classics, Historic Historical past, Faith and Theology. This may embody the design, growth and manufacturing of educating and studying materials and the supply of educating throughout a variety of historical historical past modules as much as MA degree. That is prone to embody the next modules: Roman Historical past: Issues and Sources; Greek Historical past: Issues and Sources; Historic 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 Historic Historical past, to develop educating programmes, and educate and assist studying on historical historical past modules
• Use a variety of supply strategies to enthuse and interact 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 degree past your individual educating
• Be anticipated to work in direction of Fellow of the HEA standing, the place acceptable, and attend formal CPD regarding this

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

What we will give you:

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

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

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

The College of Exeter

We’re a member of the celebrated Russell Group of research-intensive universities and within the prime 200 universities on the planet (Polijobs World College Rankings 2024 and QS World College Rating 2024).  We mix world-class educating with world-class analysis, reaching a Gold ranking within the Instructing Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold rankings for Scholar Expertise and Scholar Outcomes.

Our world-leading analysis impression has grown greater than every other Russell Group college lately, and we’re residence to a number of the world’s most influential researchers, in search of to reply a number of the most elementary points going through humankind in the present day.  Greater than 99 p.c of our analysis is of worldwide high quality and 47 p.c 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 reworking training for a altering world. We’re situated in a wonderful a part of the nation and Exeter (a quick rising tech hub) is considered one of 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 cheap changes can be found for interviews and workplaces.

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

With over 30,000 college students and seven,000 workers from 150 completely different international locations we provide a various and fascinating atmosphere the place our range is well known and valued as a significant power. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive tradition the place all members of our neighborhood are supported to thrive; the place various voices are heard by means of 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 position, please contact Professor Rebecca Langlands, Head of Classics, Historic Historical past, Faith and Theology, [email protected] .