3 heterodox-friendly positions at Kingston University

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Kingston Uni­ver­si­ty has adver­tised three fixed-term lec­tur­er posi­tions with a very tight dead­lline of June 22nd, with inter­views to be held on July 1st. Appli­ca­tions from econ­o­mists with a research area in het­ero­dox eco­nom­ics are wel­come.

For queries please con­tact Julian Wells (J.Wells AT kingston.ac.uk), who is the Direc­tor of Stud­ies.

The for­mal details of the posi­tions are below.

Ref­er­ence Num­ber: 1264

Salary: £35770-£38869

Fac­ul­ty / Depart­ment: Fac­ul­ty of Arts & Social Sci­ences

School / Sec­tion: School of Eco­nom­ics, His­to­ry and Pol­i­tics

Loca­tion: Pen­rhyn Road Map & Direc­tions

Permanent/Fixed Term: Fixed Term (FTC)

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time

Work­ing Hours: 37

Vacan­cy clos­es at mid­night on: 22 June 2014

The Role

Free-think­ing. Col­lab­o­ra­tive. Inno­v­a­tive. Kingston Uni­ver­si­ty is yours to inspire. As you cov­er col­leagues on leave for a year, you will play a key role in the teach­ing of eco­nom­ics cours­es with­in a depart­ment com­mit­ted to excel­lence in het­ero­dox and ortho­dox eco­nom­ics. In par­tic­u­lar, you will con­tribute to the devel­op­ment and deliv­ery of under­grad­u­ate and post­grad­u­ate teach­ing and research in the areas of math­e­mat­i­cal eco­nom­ics, macro­eco­nom­ics, finan­cial eco­nom­ics, or econo­met­rics. At the same time, you will main­tain a per­son­al pro­gramme of research and schol­ar­ship and sup­port the aca­d­e­m­ic man­age­ment of the Depart­ment.

The Per­son

You’ll bring a doc­tor­al degree in a rel­e­vant dis­ci­pline togeth­er with some expe­ri­ence of teach­ing in the high­er edu­ca­tion sec­tor at under­grad­u­ate or post­grad­u­ate lev­el. Evi­dence of strong research poten­tial will be com­ple­ment­ed by the abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate effec­tive­ly with a vari­ety of dif­fer­ent audi­ences. An abil­i­ty to con­tribute to a plu­ral­ist eco­nom­ics cur­ricu­lum is desir­able, as would expe­ri­ence of suc­cess­ful­ly apply­ing for exter­nal fund­ing

The Fac­ul­ty

The Fac­ul­ty of Arts and Social Sci­ences is now the fastest grow­ing research envi­ron­ment in the UK fol­low­ing a mul­ti-mil­lion pound invest­ment in pro­fes­so­r­i­al staff, ear­ly career researchers and doc­tor­al stu­dents. The Fac­ul­ty has a rich offer­ing in the the­o­ret­i­cal human­i­ties and crit­i­cal social sci­ences unique amongst UK uni­ver­si­ties.

Click here for the adver­tise­ment on the Kingston Uni­ver­si­ty web­site