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DURHAM UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology (ANTH22-1) 2 Posts (Job Number: 21001503) Department of Anthropology Grade 7/8: - £34,304 - £50,296 per annum Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time Contracted Hours per Week: 35 Closing Date: 24-Jan-2022, 11:59:00 PM Link: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21001503&lang=en&fbclid=IwAR26ii2oTpUT5chwpRBMhKXCcvpIw7kl3xuLq0xfk2Z4TVsHsROqcDKO8NU Job title: Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology Vacancy reference: ANTH22-1 Department: Anthropology Responsible to: Head of Department Grade: Grade 7 – Grade 8 Salary Range: £34,304 - £50,296 per annum Working arrangements: The role is full time but we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements including potential job shares Closing date: 24 January 2022 at Midnight (UK) Preferred start date: Successful candidates will ideally be in post by 1 September 2022 Durham University A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting – Durham is a university like no other. We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things in the world. As part of Durham University, you’ll be working with exceptional minds, all with the desire to ask, and answer the big questions. Access to leading-edge facilities and an active contributor to the global research and university community means you’ll be part of an international and diverse network of partners spanning the world’s best research institutions, organisations, and businesses. And all this within the evocative and historic surroundings of the city, county and community that is Durham. We find it easy to be proud of the extraordinary people we have at Durham. We offer the inspiration, they achieve the outstanding. We invite you to join them. Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the University. We are committed to equality: if for any reason you have taken a career break or periods of leave that may have impacted on the volume and recency of research outputs, such as maternity, adoption or parental leave, you may wish to disclose this in your application. The selection committee will recognise that this may have reduced the quantity of your research accordingly. Durham University’s Athena Swan institutional award recognises and celebrates good practice in recruiting and supporting the development of women. We have also signed up to the Race Equality Charter, a national framework for improving the representation, progression, and success of minority ethnic staff and students within higher education. The Department The Department of Anthropology at Durham University seeks to appoint up to two talented individuals to the role of Assistant Professor. We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of Anthropology of Energy, Environment and Planetary Health, which is a growth area in the Department This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our Department pages at www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/anthropology<http://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/anthropology>/ The Department of Anthropology has a vibrant research culture with many visitors, seminars, global conferences and workshops. We are proud of our intellectually inclusive environment, fostering the academic freedom and confidence to work at both the core and boundaries of anthropology in exciting and innovative ways. We were the top-ranked integrated Anthropology department in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014); fifth in the UK for overall GPA (Times Higher Education); first equal for world-leading and internationally-excellent Impact and Research Environment, and second equal for world-leading publications. Each year, we welcome over 130 students from all over the world onto our undergraduate programmes, with their flagship residential field course, and 70+ students onto our postgraduate taught and research degrees. We provide a supportive, friendly and enabling environment with a strong sense of community. Assistant Professors at Durham The University is committed to enabling all of our colleagues to achieve their full potential. We promote and maintain an inclusive and supportive environment to ensure that all colleagues can thrive. Academic colleagues are supported to publish world-class research in their area of interest with a focus on quality in high-impact journals, rather than quantity. We will fully support your research needs including practical, help such as resources to attend conferences and to fund research activity, as well as a generous research leave policy and a designated mentor. Sitting alongside world-class research; teaching quality and innovation is critical to ensure a first-class learning environment and curricula for all of our students. You will be supported to develop your teaching expertise and to engage in teaching innovation to embed our student experience. All of our Assistant Professors are encouraged to focus on research and teaching but also to engage in wider citizenship to enhance their own development, to support their department and wider discipline, and to contribute to the wider student experience. We are confident that our recruitment process allows us to attract and select the best international talent to Durham. We, therefore, offer a reduced probation period of 1 year for our Assistant Professors and thereafter, subject to satisfactory performance, you will be confirmed in post. Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology (Energy, Environment and Planetary Health) Applicants must demonstrate research excellence in Social Anthropology with a focus in some aspects of energy, environment and planetary health (including climate change and sustainability). They should have the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University. The University provides a working and teaching environment that is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate these key principles as part of the assessment process. 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