Job: Teaching fellow in cultural geography, University of Leicester, UK

Job Purpose

At Leicester we’re going places. Ranked in the top 20 universities in Britain our aim is to climb further. A commitment to high quality fused with an inclusive academic culture is our hallmark and led the Times Higher Education to describe us as “elite without being elitist”.

This 9-month post is to provide teaching cover principally in Human Geography the 2012-2013 academic year. Your main duties will be to contribute to existing modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The modules you will teach on concern Cultural Geography, particularly diverse forms of representation, potentially including work on media, landscape and natures, and also, ideally, identity. In addition, you should be able to teach research methods and attend an overseas fieldtrip in April 2013. You will have some administrative duties and will support the work of the Department in developing and enhancing its reputation, both internally and externally to the University.

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Mike Bradshaw on mjb41@le.ac.uk.

The closing date for this post is midnight on 7 August 2012.

We anticipate that interviews will take place on Tuesday 21 August 2012.

Click here for Employer Profile