The College of Cambridge is searching for to nominate a College Assistant Professor in Human Evolution, to start out on 1 September 2024, to affix its thriving and rising hub in Human Evolutionary Research inside the Division of Archaeology. The profitable candidate will probably be main analysis on points of human adaptation and evolution. The publish will complement the Division’s analysis and educating experience in Organic Anthropology, which covers human evolution, human behavioural ecology, primatology, human evolutionary genetics, human osteology, cultural evolution and comparative human biology. Functions are welcome in all branches of palaeoanthropology, with the expectation that the profitable candidate will add insights into hominin evolutionary biology, adaptation and phylogenetic historical past. We significantly welcome purposes from candidates whose analysis focuses on any of (1) hominin origins, (2) early hominin evolution and variety, (3) the evolution of hominin life-history, (4) hominin palaeoenvironmental contexts and responses to local weather change, (5) the evolution of hominin social behaviour and cognition, and (6) revolutionary methodological approaches to the examine of human evolution. We encourage purposes from these whose analysis consists of energetic fieldwork, and whose analysis plans embody interdisciplinary approaches that intersect with these of different organic anthropologists within the Division.
The profitable candidate will contribute to undergraduate and graduate educating, in addition to supervise undergraduate and graduate analysis tasks of their discipline of experience. Organic Anthropology at Cambridge is taught as a part of the undergraduate diploma in Archaeology (Organic Anthropology monitor) and as a Half II in Pure Sciences, leading to a various pupil physique of archaeologists, anthropologists, biologists, psychologists, and medical and veterinary science college students. The College gives two Masters levels within the topic, a taught-research diploma and a research-only diploma. The profitable candidate can be anticipated to contribute to the examination of scholars, outreach actions, the event of the Division’s instructional methods, the tutorial administration of departmental actions, related departmental and School committees, and the College’s wider strategic connections and initiatives.
The publish begins on 1 September 2024, and the appointment made will probably be everlasting topic to a probationary interval of 5 years. The profitable applicant will profit from the excellent services supplied by the College and the help of analysis and educating supplied by the Division of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Analysis.
Additional details about the publish and the choice course of could be discovered on our Job Alternatives web site, linked beneath. Casual enquiries concerning the publish could be made to Dr Tamsin O’Connell (Head of Division; [email protected] ) or Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr ([email protected]
The cut-off date for purposes is Tuesday, 2 April 2024.
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