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Dear colleagues

The LSE's Department of Methodology is seeking to hire a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methodology. We are an expanding, enthusiastic and open-minded group of qualitative researchers and lecturers forming part of an interdisciplinary team of social researchers in quantitative and qualitative methods who provide MSc and PhD level methods training to students from across the LSE. For a brief indication of the work of the qualitative team, see here:  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/methodology/Qualitative-Methods-Research-Group.aspx

Please see the job advert below.  For further details and application forms, please go to www.lse.ac.uk/Jobs at LSE and select “Current vacancies’. 

Best wishes,


Jen Tarr

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Dr. Jen Tarr
Lecturer in Research Methodology
Department of Methodology
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
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+44 (0) 20 7955 6950 

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THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Department of Methodology

Senior Lecturer or Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methodology
Salary for Senior Lecturer starts from £48,446 pa inclusive
Salary for Lecturer starts from £40,634 pa inclusive

The Department of Methodology seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Qualitative Research Methodology,
but will also consider appointing at Lecturer level for a candidate with potential if no suitable applications are
received at Senior Lecturer level. Candidates must demonstrate research interests and teaching experience
in areas of qualitative research methodology that will complement the Department’s existing strengths in this
field.

You will carry out teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as conducting research. You
will be able to demonstrate achievement and research potential in any area of the social sciences and/or
methodology of social research, as evidenced by high quality and high impact publications; as well as
strengths in qualitative research methods that are used in the empirical social sciences. Your research will
demonstrate a commitment to methodological development, systematisation and/or tool making in any area
of qualitative research, although applications from candidates specialising in text analysis, spatial
dimensions, or with expertise in a range of qualitative interview methods are particularly encouraged. You
will have a commitment to high-quality teaching of methodology at a postgraduate level, as well as a
completed PhD by the time of taking up the post.

The appointee will be expected to collaborate with another academic departments in the School that shares his
or her research interests, taking an active role in the departmental activities of their respective disciplines,
activities which may include affiliation with research centres, participation in disciplinary seminars, co-supervision
of research students in the discipline, and research collaboration. Current staff of the Department of Methodology
have disciplinary connections to the LSE departments of Government, Social Policy, Sociology, Social
Psychology, and Statistics, depending on their backgrounds and disciplinary training. Applications are invited
from candidates in any discipline of the social sciences or empirical research methodology.

To be considered for a Senior Lecturer role, you will need an established publication record including at least
four articles since January 2008 that are internationally excellent in terms of originality, rigour and
significance, at least two of which must be world leading. You will also have a substantial track record in
teaching at undergraduate/postgraduate level, in a suitable area of qualitative research methods, together
with experience of undertaking class administration.

To be considered for a Lecturer role, you will need an established publication record including at least one
article since January 2008 that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, rigour and significance. You
will also some teaching experience at undergraduate/post graduate level in one or more of the main areas
covered by the Department of Methodology.

The appointment will be from 1 September, 2013 with an earlier date negotiable.

The mission of the Department of Methodology is to be a national centre of excellence in social science
methodology. As one of the only dedicated, proper university departments of social science methodology in
the world, the Department of Methodology provides a focus for methodological activities at the School, in
particular in the areas of research student training and methodological research. Information about the
Department of Methodology can be found at http://www2.lse.ac.uk/methodology/Home.aspx.
‘To apply for this post please go to www.lse.ac.uk/Jobs at LSE and select “Current vacancies’’. If you have any
queries about applying on the online system, please email [log in to unmask] quoting reference 1294062.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is 11th January 2013 (23.59 UK Time). Regrettably, we are
unable to accept any applications received after this date.

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