This message is being posted on behalf of Professor John Urry at Lancaster
University where the new Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) has been
established. Since expertise in the field of Mobilities, Migration and
Spatialities is being sought, this may well be of interest to members of
the UTSG list.
Regards,
Glenn
Lancaster University
Department of Sociology
Further Particulars
Lecturer A (REF A119)
From January 1st 2004
Start Salary: £22,191 - £25,451
Closing Date: 30th July
The Department of Sociology seeks to appoint a Lecturer A with expertise in
the field of Mobilities, Migration and Spatialities.
The study of mobilities, migration and spatialities is a newly emerging
interdisciplinary field in which Lancaster University is developing
particular strengths. The concept of ‘mobilities’ encompasses both the
large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, images and information
across the world, as well as the more local mobilities, which constitute
patterns of transportation, everyday life, consumption and urbanism.
Migration refers to both the movement of individual people and populations
between different places of belonging, as well as the travelling of the
objects and entities that make up the world. The study of spatialities is
concerned with issues such as the spatialization of social relations, the
making of time-space, and the importance of aspects such as scale,
networks, and fluidity in social theory and social analysis.
We seek to appoint a new lecturer who would extend research in these areas
and who could potentially create new interdisciplinary initiatives around
issues of multiculturalism, diaspora, belonging and citizenship, social
access and exclusion, public space, and geographies of power at the local,
national and global levels. The appointee will join a dynamic research
culture focusing on the many ways in which contemporary social life is
being re-spatialised through changes in infrastructures of physical and
informational mobility, cultural practices of travel, tourism and
migration, and new modes of design, consumption and disposal.
We welcome applications from a wide range of backgrounds, including those
from disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and cultural geography,
and from more interdisciplinary areas such as cultural studies, political
economy, women's studies and postcolonial studies.
The new post-holder will also contribute to the work of the new Centre for
Mobilities Research (CeMoRe). CeMoRe is seeking to develop innovative
theory and new research initiatives on a wide range of mobility topics, to
develop further the 'mobility turn' in contemporary social and cultural
analysis -- including the integral part of borders, immobilities,
attachments, and surveillance in producing mobility. Recent developments in
transportation, communications and border-making infrastructures, along
with new social and cultural practices of both physical and virtual
mobility are centre-stage within contemporary economic, social and
technological developments and in generating profound policy issues,
especially of how (and whether) mobile lives are sustainable into the
long-term. CeMoRe aims to bring advanced social and cultural theory into
dialogue with planning, policy and research agendas on these diverse
mobilities and on their affects in transforming bodies, identities, public
spaces, national belonging, and citizenship.
Mimi Sheller and John Urry (both in the Department of Sociology) are
CeMoRe's Co-directors and its Management Board contains members of various
faculties and departments from across the University. See the (under
construction) web site http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/CeMoRe/index.htm.
CeMoRe is organising the major conference on Alternative Mobility Futures,
see http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/altfutconfcall.htm.
Teaching
The person appointed will teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate
courses in the department and beyond, depending on their areas of
expertise. The person appointed will be expected to:
· Contribute a 5-10 week block (10-20 lectures) to the first year
Sociology course (Soc 101) in their area of expertise in the Spring or
Summer Terms of 2004.
· Devise and teach a third-year 20 week undergraduate option in the
area of their research from October 2004
· Contribute to some consortial teaching in the Department at
undergraduate and Master’s Levels
· Contribute to the Faculty of Social Science Faculty Training
Programme for PhD students
· Supervise PhD students (with a second supervisor) in their field
The Department of Sociology at Lancaster University
The Department has been ranked in the highest possible category for
research in all five Research Assessment Exercises. It has recently been
awarded 5**. In teaching assessments the Department has received the
highest possible rating in the recent internal quality teaching review in
May 2002.
The Department has a strong tradition of interdisciplinary, collaborative
research. Current members have intellectual backgrounds in sociology,
social anthropology, economics, politics and cultural studies, and most
have strong interdisciplinary links across the University. The Department
cooperates extensively with a number of Institutes in the Faculty of Social
Sciences, particularly with the Institute for Women’s Studies and the
Institute for Cultural Research. The 5** Centre for Science Studies is
also administered from with the Sociology Department. Recent appointments
have included researchers from the US, the UK, Canada and Denmark. Staff
in the Department publish on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics,
including:
·the body, medicine and health, and new reproductive technologies;
·consumption, leisure and tourism;
·ethnicity, identities, diaspora, post-colonialism;
·gender and sexualities;
·governance and complexity, welfare state restructuring; ·political
economy, the state, class structures;
·social theory, globalisation, time/space and materiality;
·organisations, computer supported cooperative work, technology studies;
·sociology of science, technology and the environment;
The Sociology Department offers the major degree, BA Sociology; combined BA
degrees, Sociology with Criminology, Economics, Educational Studies,
Geography, Organisation Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies,
Women’s Studies and History; and a minor degree in Social
Anthropology. Undergraduate students at Lancaster take core courses from
three different departments in their first year. Each core course involves
25 weeks’ teaching with 50 lectures and 25 seminars. In their second and
third years they complete the equivalent of eight full unit courses, which
are typically 20 weeks in length and involve a lecture and a seminar each week.
The Department convenes or contributes to several degrees at the MA level:
MA in Sociology with pathways in
· Contemporary Sociology
· Economy and Society
· Globalization
· Social Theory
MA in Science and Technology
MA in Sociological Research
MA in Tourism and Leisure
There are currently over 60 part-time and full-time research students
(M.Phil and PhD) in the Department who participate in the research events
as well as in the undergraduate teaching programmes. The Department also
has a number of visiting post-doctoral scholars and research fellows.
Applications
NB: Please enclose a piece of your writing (a journal article, book chapter
or PhD chapter) with your application form, covering letter and curriculum
vitae.
This post will commence on January 1st 2004.
Closing date for applications is 30th July 2003.
To apply or receive further information, visit:
http://lancs.ac.uk/depts/personnel/jobs or telephone (01524) 846549
Personnel Dept.
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YW
Fax: (01524) 593712
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Unit for Transport and Society
Faculty of the Built Environment
University of the West of England
Frenchay Campus
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BRISTOL BS16 1QY
Tel 0117 344 3219
Mobile 07748 768404
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