Lecturer in International Politics

Wage:

Grade F: £39,347 to £44,263 every year

Grade G: £45,585 to £54,395 every year

Newcastle College is a superb place to work, with glorious advantages . We now have a beneficiant vacation bundle; plus the chance to purchase extra, nice pension schemes and a variety of well being and wellbeing initiatives to help you.

Closing Date: 15 April 2024

The Position

The Faculty of Geography, Politics and Sociology seeks to nominate a Lecturer in Worldwide Politics.

The Politics Unit within the Faculty of Geography, Politics and Sociology is dwelling to a various and pleasant neighborhood of employees and college students, dedicated to world-leading analysis and glorious, modern instructing. We conduct interdisciplinary and methodologically numerous worldwide politics analysis and train worldwide politics in any respect diploma ranges.

We’re based mostly within the newly refurbished Henry Daysh Constructing, bringing our college neighborhood nearer collectively.

For extra details about the college, please click on right here .

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You’ll conduct analysis in any space of worldwide politics and contribute to instructing on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Ideally, you’ll have a monitor file of engagement and proof of the affect of your analysis past educational settings. We’re notably excited by students with experience in political financial system, public coverage, race and ethnicity, and/or with an curiosity within the World South, and who can train analysis strategies at each undergraduate and postgraduate ranges. We worth methodological pluralism.

You’ll be collegial and eager to develop your educational profession in a collaborative setting that values and helps analysis, instructing and affect. You’ll be captivated with discussing worldwide politics with college students and non-academic audiences.

You should have a track-record of publications in worldwide politics in excessive affect journals and different retailers commensurate together with your profession stage. You should have expertise of instructing undergraduates and/or postgraduates. You’ll be collegial and eager to develop your educational profession in a collaborative setting that values and helps analysis, instructing, and engagement. We notably welcome proof of engagement with non-academic audiences.

For casual enquiries please attain out to: Dr Maarja Lühiste [email protected] , Prof. Valentina Feklyunina[email protected] and Dr Chan Ka Ming[email protected] .

Key Accountabilities

Educating and Studying

• Design and ship prime quality instructing and studying materials, sources, and actions to college students in step with Faculty and College instructing goals and timetable necessities
• Train on undergraduate and postgraduate modules, together with co-teaching group taught modules, and strategies modules
• Present a spread of well timed pupil help to reinforce the scholar expertise and achievements. Set, mark, and assess course work and examinations, offering well timed and efficient suggestions to college students
• Present private tutoring and pastoral steering (when applicable, acquiring specialist help and recommendation)
• Supervise undergraduate and taught postgraduate college students’ dissertations and analysis initiatives
• Contribute to the planning, design and improvement of modules and programmes to enhance instructing throughout the Faculty and College
• Consider personal apply and presently have or a willingness to work in direction of a class of Fellowship with the HEA

Analysis and Innovation

• Plan, organise and perform analysis, to make sure the contribution of latest data, perception, and innovation to the related area of worldwide politics
• Put together and submit purposes for applicable funding, to hold out an space of analysis, or contribute to this exercise as a member of a group engaged on a broader programme

• Disseminate analysis outcomes by applicable media and fora to advance data within the area and improve the College’s repute for top of the range analysis. It will embrace authoring or co-authoring monographs and papers for publication in high-quality educational journals

• Entice and supervise PhD college students to make sure their profitable completion (initially as a member of the supervisory group)
• Contribute to the broader inner and exterior analysis neighborhood e.g. by reviewing journal articles, peer assessment of analysis grants, lively engagement with related college analysis clusters, and membership {of professional} our bodies
• The place applicable, provoke or contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations to maximise the advantages for the Faculty, College and College
• The place applicable take part in formal data switch actions and consultancy

Engagement and Influence

• Take part in organised programmes of outreach/public engagement
• Promote the College’s values and help widening entry to our programmes and services to individuals who have traditionally had little involvement in universities
• Develop programmes of instructing and/or analysis which embrace data sharing with the non-public and public sectors, and with civil society, with especial reference to marginalised and deprived social teams

• Contribute to the event of public coverage e.g. by recommendation to public our bodies at native, regional, nationwide and worldwide ranges, as applicable

• Contribute to the event of affect case research
• Contribute to skilled improvement in your area by lively membership of discovered societies {and professional} establishments

Administration and Administration

• Take accountability for an outlined administration or administrative position akin to Module Chief, Private Tutor, and/or different duties as agreed with the Head of Unit
• Contribute to the broader work of the Faculty, College and College by enter to challenge groups, working teams and committees

The Particular person

Data, Expertise and Expertise

• A monitor file, commensurate together with your profession stage, of revealed analysis in worldwide politics in excessive affect journals and different retailers
• Proof of/potential to contribute to the sphere by participation in research-focused actions akin to conferences, workshops, seminars and/or invited talks to educational and non-academic audiences
• Proof of/potential of making use of for analysis funding
• Analysis expertise that draw on a spread of strategies, knowledge sources and methods
• Proof of/potential of partaking with exterior stakeholders, producing real-world affect from analysis
• Expertise of/potential of lecturing, seminar instructing, evaluation, and/or dissertation supervision, together with instructing analysis design and/or strategies
• Expertise of/potential of offering educational steering and/or pastoral care to college students
• Expertise of/potential of offering help or mentoring to colleagues or college students

Attributes and Behaviour

• Dedication to sustaining and supporting a various and inclusive working setting, through which all colleagues and college students are handled pretty and respectfully
• Glorious organisational, time administration and presentation expertise
• Skill to work as a part of a group and on personal initiative
• Willingness and talent to behave in a collegial method, making a constructive contribution to sustaining and enhancing a collaborative setting that values and helps glorious analysis, instructing, and affect
• Willingness and talent to imagine administrative tasks

{Qualifications}

• A Ph.D in Worldwide Politics or a related self-discipline

Newcastle College is a world College the place everyone seems to be handled with dignity and respect.  As a College of Sanctuary, we purpose to offer a welcoming place of security for all, providing alternatives to folks fleeing violence and persecution.

We’re dedicated to being a completely inclusive college which actively recruits, helps and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We worth range in addition to rejoice, help and thrive on the contributions of all of our staff and the communities they characterize.  We’re proud to be an equal alternatives employer and encourage purposes from people who can complement our present groups, we imagine that success is constructed on having groups whose backgrounds and experiences mirror the variety of our college and pupil inhabitants.

At Newcastle College we maintain a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the development of gender equality.  We additionally maintain a Race Equality Constitution Bronze award in recognition of our work in direction of tackling race inequality in larger training REC.  We’re aDisability Assured employer and can provide an interview to disabled candidates who meet the important standards for the position as a part of the provide and interview scheme.

As well as, we’re a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 26830