Lecturer in Medieval History
Swansea University – College of Arts and Humanities

The College of Arts and Humanities is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Medieval History on a Teaching and Research career pathway in the Department of History and Classics. We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any specialism of history between 800 and 1500.

The College is a successful, growing and ambitious research and teaching enterprise. Grouped in six departments with a central administration and management, including a Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the College’s 170 staff deliver a wide variety of degree programmes to 3000 UG, PGTM and PGR students. We are committed to pursuing world-class research and providing an outstanding student experience. Four of the UoAs based in the College are in the REF 2014 ‘Top Thirty’ and the University overall is 26th.

With buoyant student applications and the opportunity to expand into new facilities on the Singleton Park campus as the University we are planning for further growth and will develop our international collaborations, our successful cross-disciplinary initiatives, and our role as a major contributor to the cultural life of Wales and beyond.

The College is looking to build on the success of the Department of History and Classics which was ranked =27th for History in REF 2014. This appointment is one of a number that will reinforce success and drive innovation.

The successful candidate will support and extend the continued development of teaching, postgraduate supervision and research in history at Swansea and will lead undergraduate modules based upon his or her specialism, and contribute to the department’s team-taught undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in history. The department is committed to innovative forms of teaching and to enhancing the employability of its students and thus welcomes applications from individuals with ideas and experience in these fields. There will be opportunities to contribute to the development of further modules and programmes in addition to the current provision.

There will be also be opportunities to make substantive contributions to the department’s Year 1 provision and we welcome candidates with experience and ideas on how to help students make the transition to university-level study.

Applicants should have a PhD in Medieval History or a closely related subject and a record of published outputs and/or planned outputs which can contribute to the projected (2020) University REF return. Experience of developing research objectives and proposals for individual or joint research, and the potential to develop these into research funding proposals, are essential. An awareness of the REF impact agenda and its potential relevance to research activity is also required.

The successful candidate will join the History REF unit, based in the Department of History and Classics, and will develop their research in the context of the College of Arts and Humanities’ Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research (MEMO), organised under the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH).

Closing Date Midnight on 12 March 2015

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