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University of Edinburgh Hiring for Teaching Fellow in Film Studies Job at Edinburgh, Scotland , UK Full Time
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UE07 £34,304 – £40,927
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
This position is available on a full time, open-ended basis.
The Graduate School, part of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate to undertake a range of teaching and supervision duties at postgraduate level.
The successful candidate will have experience in the design and delivery of teaching units within the higher education sector, and the ability to deliver courses at high level. They will be also expected to contribute to the administration of the subject area, including course organisation.
We welcome applications for this post from all qualified candidates and particularly welcome applications from members of minority ethnic groups, who are currently under-represented in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Interviews will be held approximately two weeks after the closing date.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
LLC is one of the largest schools in the College of Humanities and Social Science and is situated in the heart of the main University of Edinburgh campus, in a number of buildings around George Square. It offers a vibrant and dynamic work environment for colleagues and is committed to excellence in teaching and research across the wide range of cultures and languages it studies.
The School delivers over half the College’s undergraduate degree programmes. It comprises five subject areas:
- Asian Studies
- Celtic and Scottish Studies
- English Literature
- European Languages and Cultures
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
LLC also has a Graduate School which provides a dynamic and productive home for several hundred postgraduates on taught and research programmes. Our students come from all over the world, and study topics of equally global scope. The Graduate School oversees the administration and delivery of graduate teaching within the five subject areas of the school, and is also responsible for the delivery of innovative transdisciplinary programmes in Film, Media, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature. Situated at the crossroads between teaching and research, it is involved in almost all areas of the school’s activities, so offers a vibrant and stimulating work environment. Full information can be found on the website at: www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school
LLC also hosts a number of associated research centres – the Princess Dashkova Centre, the Confucius Centre, the Al Waleed Centre and CASAW – which oversee research and which complement the School’s outreach and public engagement initiatives.
In the 2014 REF over 70% of the research activity in the School was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*). We provide an excellent standard of facilities for colleagues in a recently refurbished and new building, at the heart of George Square.
