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Preliminary advert for a fixed-term lectureship in Medical Anthropology at
Edinburgh University -- full details will be available on www.jobs.ac.uk
from 20 June 2006.
 

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES

LECTURER IN
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(FIXED TERM)
 

THE POST

We seek to appoint an outstanding researcher and teacher to a fixed term
post to be held in the Social Anthropology subject group of the School of
Social and Political Studies. The post is open to candidates with research
and teaching experience in Medical Anthropology in any geographical locale,
to assist in the further development of the MSc in Medical Anthropology
(both the taught MSc and the MSc by Research) and the SAHI working group
(Sociology & Anthropology of Health & Illness). As well as responsibilities
to Medical Anthropology, the candidate will also have teaching
responsibilities on other aspects of social or cultural anthropology in the
subject group. The person appointed will also be expected to engage actively
in research and administration, and to play a full part in the collegial
life of the Social Anthropology subject group and the School of Social and
Political Studies. 

Applicants should have completed, or be close to completing, a doctoral
degree.

The post will be on the Lecturer AT2A/B scale.  The post will be available
for 28 months from 1st September 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. 


APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Full details on application procedure will be available on www.jobs.ac.uk
from 20 June 2006.

Application deadline is 4 July 2006.

It is expected that interviews will be held in the afternoon of Thursday 27
July, with presentations by candidates being given during the morning of
that day.

Informal enquiries are welcome, and should be made to Professor Alan
Barnard, Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Studies,
University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square EH8 9LL
(email [log in to unmask]). Enquiries may also be made to Dr Ian Harper
([log in to unmask]) or Dr Stefan Ecks ([log in to unmask]).

 
 

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