Lecturer in Politics (Education and Scholarship) Ref: 40472 (Part Time, Fixed Term)

Lecturer in Politics (Education and Scholarship) Ref: 40472 (Part Time, Fixed Term) Location

Brighton, UK

Hours

Part-time (0.5 FTE - 18.25 hours per week). Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Grade 7.4 starting at £41,671 to £45,413 per annum, pro rata if part time.

Contract Type

Fixed Term Contract

About the role

The successful candidate will be a dynamic and committed academic who can teach on the MA Corruption and Governance (delivered on campus and online) and may also teach on final year UG specialist corruption-related modules.

Given we have both online and campus-based teaching, we are prepared to consider candidates who for logistical reasons are only able to undertake online teaching, as long as they are based in the UK.

About you

You will possess a PhD or be close to completing one (or equivalent qualification) and ideally have relevant working experience. You will need to be able to demonstrate high quality teaching performance across a range of teaching activities in the highly specialised sub-field of corruption analysis.

About our Division/School

Politics is a well-established and successful research-led department with a record of excellence in research assessment exercises and in teaching. The department is home to 20 faculty and around 600 students. We have a thriving Masters in Corruption and Governance course which recruits between 15-20 students per year, together an online distance learning version of the degree. The department is home to the internationally renowned Sussex European Institute and the Centre for the Study of Corruption, and also has research strengths in British politics, party politics, citizenship and migration, and various phenomena that challenge the existing political order such as populism, anti-politics and protest politics. In the most recent REF, 96% of the department's outputs were regarded as either world-leading or internationally excellent and the department's GPA rose from 2.90 in 2014 to 3.38 in 2021. We performed in the most recent NSS improving our scores in almost every category with 85% of respondents evaluating our teaching positively.

Please find further information regarding the department can be found on our website.

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it's our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.

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