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I add my voice to Jacqui's in congratulating the ICAZ organisers for a marvellously well run conference. Dale On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:05:23 +0100 "J.Mulville" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello to all our new ICAZ derived members - and here is a job for you all. > > Also at ICAZ I had a number of requests for more conference information > being put up on the list - so do feel free to advertise any relevant > conferences. > > I hope everyone had as good a time as I did at ICAZ and thanks again to > umberto, keith and peter. > > jacqui > > PS Anyone who asked me to send them offprints etc I shall once I return from > fieldwork in october. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Bateman > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: 02/09/2002 09:42 > Subject: Permanent lectureship at Nottingham > > From: Julian Henderson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 31 August 2002 11:39 > > University of Nottingham > School of Humanities > Department of Archaeology > > LECTURER IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE > > Applications are invited for a permanent lectureship in archaeological > science (either in materials science or in environmental archaeology), > to be held in the Department of Archaeology, commencing in either > January or February 2003. We are looking for an enthusiastic and lively > person, preferably with an outstanding track record of research and an > ability to provide provocative and stimulating teaching for both > undergraduate and graduate (MA) students.The successful applicant will > also be expected to supervise PhD students. Applicants who can offer a > period or area specialisation which is not currently taught in the > Department, such as the ancient Near East or ancient Egypt, including > research by excavation, will be regarded as an advantage. The > successful candidate will be expected to enhance both UG and PG teaching > by providing their own solely taught modules and, in addition, to > contributing to team-taught core modules. Previous teaching experience > in a University environment will also be considered an advantage. > Members of staff are expected to assume responsibility for one or more > aspects of the administration of the Department. > > The Department of Archaeology is a comparatively small but energetic > and friendly Department situated in the heart of the main University > Park campus in the University of Nottingham. There are currently nine > full-time members of academic staff: Professor Julian Henderson > (archaeological science, ancient technologies, especially glass; Head of > Department until 30th September 2002), Professor R. J. A. Wilson (Greek > and Roman archaeology, especially Sicily: Head of Department 2002/3), Dr > P. W. Dixon (Reader; medieval archaeology, especially castles); Dr W. G. > Cavanagh (Senior Lecturer; Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece, especially > Minoan and Mycenaean); Dr L. Laing (Senior Lecturer; Dark Age > archaeology, especially metalwork); Dr A. G. Poulter (Senior Lecturer; > Roman archaeology, especially military remains and the Balkans); Dr H. > A. Forbes (Senior Lecturer; ethnoarchaeology, ancient farming and > technology); Dr M. J. Pearce (Lecturer; Neolithic and Bronze Age > archaeology, especially N. Italy); and Dr Jon Henderson (Iron Age of > western Britain, especially Scotland; underwater archaeology). There is > also a Scientific Research Officer, who has a four-year contract, Dr M. > J. Ponting, who specialises in archaeometallurgy; a Tutor in > Archaeological Illustration, Mr D. Taylor, who also like Dr Ponting > contributes to teaching; a Research Fellow, Dr N. Stoodley, a specialist > in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, especially burial rites in fifth-century > England; and a Departmental Secretary, Ms Karen Shooter. The Department > also has a number of special lecturers and research associates. > > All staff members are research-active, and most are actively engaged on > field projects, with an emphasis on the Mediterranean area. Current > projects include excavation of glass furnaces, pottery kilns and > industrial waste of early and middle Islamic date at al-Raqqa, Syria > (Julian Henderson), excavation of a Hellenistic and Roman agricultural > settlement in Sicily (Wilson), excavation of a Neolithic and Bronze Age > site near Sparta (Cavanagh), excavation of a Byzantine fort at Dichin, > Bulgaria and survey of the surrounding territory (Poulter), fieldwork > and excavation exploring the nature of Bronze Age mining in north Italy > (Pearce) and the investigation of underwater iron age sites in Scotland > and Poland (Jon Henderson). A project to explore a medieval village and > industrial site actually situated on the University campus 150 m from > the Department has also recently been completed (Laing). Post-excavation > work continues on the Crickley hill-fort project, Gloucestershire > (Dixon). An account of fieldwork undertaken by the Department between > 1990 and 1995 is available in R. J. A. Wilson (ed.), From River Trent to > Raqqa (Nottingham 1996), obtainable from the Department (price £10.50 > including p&p). The Department has been successful in winning major > grants from the British Academy, the Humanities Research Board, and its > successor, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, both for research > projects and under their Research Leave scheme. It received a grade 4 in > the 2001 RAE and aims to improve on this in any future excercise. > Details of recent staff publications, staff research interests, and > other details about the Department, are available from the World Wide > Web at www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/archaeology. > > The Department offers a single honours BA in Archaeology and (from > October 2002) a Single Honours BSc in Archaeology. Approximately 30 > Single Honours Archaeology undergraduates are admitted each year, with a > further 25 entering the University on Joint Honour programmes. Numbers > are therefore not huge, and this helps to preserve good personal > relations between staff and students: we are proud of the friendly and > helpful reputation which the Department enjoys, on which students > regularly comment. Joint Honours programmes are currently offered as > follows: Archaeology and English, Archaeology and Ancient History, > Archaeology and Classical Civilisation, Archaeology and Geography, > Archaeology and History. A Joint Honours degree in Archaeology and Art > History is to be introduced from October 2002. Teaching at both UG and > PG level is by modular structure; each module of approximately 22/24 > hours counts for 20 credits, and one of approximately 14 hours for 10 > credits. A BA honours degree comprises 360 credits, of which 40 are > allotted to the final year dissertation (this however is not compulsory > for Joint Honour students). Each member of staff normally undertakes a > total teaching load per week of approximately 8/9 hours per week. Each > module is normally taught by a mixture of lectures and seminars. > > In addition to the undergraduate programmes, there is an ambitious > taught Masters programme, with MAs being offered in Archaeology, > Archaeology by Research, Roman Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology and > Archaeological Materials. There is also an MSc available in the last of > these for those students who wish to place a greater emphasis on the > science component. There are about 25 MA students on the books at any > one time, both full-time (one year) and part-time (two years). An MA > degree is made up of 180 credits, generally consisting of four 30-credit > taught modules and a 60-credit dissertation. In addition there are > approximately 20 students registered for the MPhil and PhD programmes. > > The Department has two seminar rooms, both equipped with double > projection facilities, and the larger of the two with video facilities > as well; a new staff common room; an undergraduate common room; a > graduate study room equipped with computers; a laboratory specialising > in archaeomaterials equipped with a furnace, an XRF and an SEM; and a > photographic dark room. If an environmentalist is appointed to this post > the University has given the undertaking to provide extra laboratory > space. A computer room, a central university facility, is also located > within the building occupied by the Department. Also housed within the > Department but like the computer-lab a University rather than a > Departmental facility is the University Museum (Director: Professor > Wilson). > > In addition, several autonomous units are housed within the Department: > the Trent and Peak Archaeology Unit, a field unit responsible for > archaeological investigation and research in advance of development in > the Trent Valley of Nottinghamshire and the Peak District of Derbyshire, > which currently employs about 16 archaeologists; the Dendrochronology > Unit, specialising in the dating of medieval structures; the Historic > Buildings Research Unit (Mr G. Simpson), concerned with surveys of > medieval buildings, especially cathedrals; and Heritage Research > Projects (directed by Dr Dixon), which deals above all with > post-excavation work on English Heritage backlog projects, and is funded > by English Heritage. > > Nottingham University is currently the most popular university in the > country, based on the number of applications per place: its very > attractive, green-field campus with extensive grounds, and its central > location within England, are undoubtedly factors contributing to this > popularity. The calibre of students is therefore high, a feature > regularly commented on by our external examiners. > > The University Hallward Library is conveniently situated three minutes' > walk away from the Department. It houses an excellent teaching > collection and adequate research facilities for Archaeology. Better > libraries, in Oxford and Cambridge, are respectively only 100 minutes' > and 80 minutes' journey away by car. > > Informal contact about this post may be made with the Head of > Department, Professor Julian Henderson, tel: 0115-9514840; fax: > 0115-9514812; e-mail: [log in to unmask] > > A full c.v. and list of publications (if any) should accompany your > letter of application. Application forms are available on the WWW at > http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/personnel/vacancies/academic.html or from > the Personnel Office, Highfield House, The University of Nottingham, > University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD. Tel: 0115 951 3262. Fax: 0115 > 951 5205. Email: [log in to unmask] Please quote > ref. TW/043A. Closing date: 27th September 2002. Interviews will be > held in October. > ---------------------- Dale Serjeantson Department of Archaeology University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK Email:[log in to unmask]