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.