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> From:         Jane Arthurs
> Reply To:     Jane Arthurs
> Sent:         Thursday, June 19, 2003 15:19 PM
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> Subject:      Job at UWE, Associate Head of School
> 
> FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, LANGUAGES AND SOCIAL SCUENCE
> School of Cultural Studies
> 
> Associate Head of School of Cultural Studies
> Principal Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies
> Salary will be in the range £32,100- £40,300.
> 
> Closing date 3 July 2003.
> 
> Visit our website www.uwe.ac.uk/jobs to see full details and apply online
> or phone 0117 344 2890 for a postal application. Please quote ref
> L/0801/G.
> 
> We are seeking an experienced and innovative teacher and researcher to
> join
> the highly successful School of Cultural Studies and to contribute to its
> management at a senior level. As Associate Head of School, for an initial
> period of three years, you will join an established and growing School
> which is recognised as a leader in its field. You will work with a team of
> 24 specialist academic staff, many with national and international
> reputations, all of whom are teachers and active researchers within a wide
> range of specialisms in the field.
> 
> You will take a leading role in ensuring the quality and development of
> the
> School's curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment at undergraduate
> and
> postgraduate levels. You will also have responsibility for the marketing
> of
> the School's activities and awards. You may support the Head of School in
> providing research leadership.
> 
> The School has been enjoying a rapid period of expansion as a result of
> its
> success in student recruitment and research funding. Our long-established
> Cultural and Media Studies BA Award, which is well known for its
> distinctive mix of theory and practice, and an established, MA in Cultural
> and Media Studies, have now been augmented by a half award in Film Studies
> and a theory/practice MA in Film and Video. The half award in Film Studies
> is set to become a full BA in 2005. We also contribute to a range of 11
> joint awards with Cultural and Media Studies and with Film Studies. The
> School also offers MPhil/PhD supervision by the traditional route and,
> from
> 2004, through its membership of the New Route PhD Consortium.
> 
> The successful candidate will be able to contribute to the School's
> teaching and research in an area of Media, Cultural or Film Studies,
> including media production, and will have a broad understanding of the
> field as a whole. We seek someone with the skill, imagination and
> motivation to help consolidate the School's success and to help lead its
> next phase of development.
> 
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