LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY

 

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

 

Applications are invited for two permanent full-time Lectureships/Senior Lectureships in the Department of Social Sciences. Our Department was awarded a rating of 5*A in the last RAE with all staff returned.

 

For both posts, your level of scholarly excellence is more important than your specific area of expertise. We expect you to have a publications record or potential of the highest quality.  We have a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching across the social sciences and you will be expected to contribute fully to this.

 

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sociology – REF:  SS/12538

 

Applications are encouraged from sociologists with research interests in any area of sociology, including scholars based in cognate disciplines (such as cultural studies and social/cultural anthropology) whose work has a sociological focus. Applicants should have an appropriate qualification and be able to work comfortably in an interdisciplinary social science environment. The successful candidate will join a dynamic Sociology Group in a phase of rapid development at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

 

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media, and Culture – REF:  SS/12539

 

The postholder will join the Department’s top-ranking Communication and Media Studies team. Appointments are made with research and scholarly record or potential as the prime criterion. Applicants should have an appropriate qualification and be able to work comfortably in an interdisciplinary social science environment.  The successful candidate will teach both on the undergraduate programme in Communication and Media Studies, and the postgraduate programme in Media and Cultural Analysis. 

 

Salary for both posts dependent on qualifications and experience is £29,138 - £46,758 per annum

 

Informal enquiries may be addressed to the Head of Department, Professor Dennis Smith (tel: 01509 223390, e-mail [log in to unmask]), to the Programme Director for Sociology, Sarah Pink (tel: 01509 223944, email [log in to unmask]) for post ref SS/12538, and to the Programme Director for Communication and Media Studies, Mr Graham Murdock (tel: 01509 222845, email [log in to unmask] ) for post ref:  SS/12539.

 

Further information about the Department may be accessed via the internet at

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/

 

For both positions further details and an application form, please contact Personnel Services, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, tel: 01509 222173 (24 hours) or email: [log in to unmask].  Alternatively an application form can be downloaded from http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/personnel/appform.html.  Please quote the relevant reference number on all correspondence.  The closing date for receipt of completed applications is Wednesday, 13 June 2007.  Curriculum Vitae will only be accepted if accompanied by a completed University application form.