[ecrea] 5 new posts at Lancaster University

The Sociology department at Lancaster University - which runs successful 
BA, MA and PhD programmes in Media & Cultural Studies - is very pleased 
to announce 5 new posts. Areas of particular interest include: digital 
technologies, immersive media, and social change; non-Western media 
cultures and practices; gender, sexuality and media.

DETAILS:

Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader/ Professor of Inequalities, in the 
disciplines of Sociology, Social Work or Media and Cultural Studies

*Sociology*
*Salary:* Lecturer: £33,518 - £47,722, Senior Lecturer/Reader: £50,618 - 
£56,950, Professor: minimum of £63,836
*Closing Date: * Sunday 30 September 2018
*Interview Date: * Thursday 18 October 2018
*Reference: *A2368

Announcing a major investment in the field of inequalities teaching and 
research, Lancaster University seeks to appoint five people to join the 
Department of Sociology, within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 
We are seeking outstanding individuals, who can contribute to teaching, 
research and service, commensurate with the candidate’s experience and 
seniority. Candidates will be expected to outline a detailed research 
plan that will contribute to social research on inequalities (such as 
those based on class, race, gender, sexuality, disability and age).


For Senior Lecturer and above preference will be given to candidates 
with a track record of income generation, publication, successful 
supervision of postgraduate research students, outstanding undergraduate 
teaching portfolio. Posts will be housed within the three teaching 
programmes in the Department: Sociology, Social Work, Media and Cultural 
Studies (& Gender Studies).


Lancaster Sociology is an exciting, research-oriented department and 
home to academics from a range of different disciplines attracted by the 
stimulating ‘post-disciplinary’ critical intellectual environment. The 
Department was rated in the top three for sociology in the last UK 
Research Excellence Framework, rated 46th best sociology department in 
the world, and our undergraduate programmes are consistently rated in 
the top ten in the UK for their subject areas.


The Department is committed to forms of ‘public sociology’ that 
investigate, protect and enhance the interests of publics in changing 
and often dangerous times. Whilst the field is open we are particularly 
interested in candidates whose expertise on inequalities relates to any 
of the following research and teaching areas:

•             Digital technologies, immersive media, and social change

•             Non-Western media cultures and practices

•             Gender, Sexuality and Media

•             Environment, Science and Technology

•             Violence and Society

•             Social Work (Children and Families or Adults)


Other areas of research in the department include: child protection and 
family justice, climate change, crises, disability studies, energy 
demand, food shortages, contested futures, mental distress, migration, 
mobilities security, social justice, and welfare reform. For further 
details about the department see: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/


Applications at all levels, from Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, Senior 
Lecturer/Teaching Fellow, Reader, Professor to Distinguished Professor 
are welcomed.  Job share and part-time arrangements will be considered.


Informal enquiries may be made to Chris Grover, Head of Department, Tel: 
+44 (0)1524 594122, email (c.grover /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) or Imogen Tyler Tel: 
+44 (0)7920 828714 email (i.tyler /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)


We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.


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