UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Department of Politics
Three University Lectureships in Politics
Applications are invited for three University Lectureships in Politics from 1 September 2007 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants should have research ability of a high standard in comparative or international politics, political economy or modern political theory, and will be expected to contribute to teaching for the BA and M.Phil and to supervise Ph.D students. Appointments made at University Lecturer level will be for a probationary period of five years, with appointment to the retiring age thereafter. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer is currently £32,471 to £41,133 a year.
Further information about the Department and the Faculty can be found at www.sps.cam.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn at gph21@cam.ac.uk.
Further particulars may be obtained from Dr Mary Griffin, Administrative Officer, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, telephone 01223 334520, fax 01223 334550, e-mail sps-enquiries@lists.cam.ac.uk, to whom applications should be sent by 27 November 2006. Applications should include a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a personal statement and the University’s Cover Sheet for Employment (Form PD18, Parts 1 and 111 need only be completed, may be obtained from the Faculty’s website at www.sps.cam.ac.uk or from Dr Griffin). Applications should also include the names, addresses and contact details of two or three referees, and candidates should ask their referees to send references to Dr Griffin by 27 November 2006. Candidates are asked to indicate which of their publications they would like the Faculty Appointments Committee to read. Short-listed candidates may be invited to come to Cambridge to attend for formal interview with the Faculty Appointments Committee on 8 and 9 January 2007.
The University follows an equal opportunities policy.
University of Cambridge
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Department of Politics
Three University Lectureships in Politics
The Department of Politics in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences was created in January 2004. A professorship in the subject was established in 2006. Andrew Gamble has been elected to this post and will take up the chair in January 2007. The Department now seeks to appoint to three University Lectureships.
The strengths of the Department are in political theory, comparative politics, political economy, and international politics and applications are invited in any of these fields. Other things being equal, the Department expects to give preference for one of the posts to a candidate in modern political theory. It also hopes for strong applications from those interested in the politics of the United States or China.
Politics is taught at the undergraduate level in the Social and Political Sciences Tripos. Following recommendations of a University Review of the Faculty in 1998, the Tripos was recast in 1999-2000 to provide an educationally more coherent and cumulative programme of study through a multi-disciplinary Part I to disciplinary Part IIs which in the third year, Part IIB, also allows interdisciplinary study. The Part II in Politics has proved to be the most popular of these disciplinary paths. It deliberately allows an open content for the majority of papers, and can adapt to the expertise of staff in the Department and from elsewhere, including the Centre of International Studies, the Faculty of History, and other institutions, who may contribute to it. (The Faculty of History offers papers in the history of political thought. The Department does not therefore envisage making appointments in this field.) Staff are encouraged to teach at a high level on their own interests in Part IIB and to contribute to the teaching in Part I and Part IIA, the scope and content of which are also reasonably flexible. At the graduate level, the Department contributes to the inter-Faculty M.Phil in Political Thought and Intellectual History and expects to introduce an M.Phil of its own (with an emphasis on comparative politics) in 2008—09. The Department is also hoping to increase the number of Ph.D students in the subject.
The Department expects the successful candidates for these three posts, which will bring its total establishment of teaching posts to eight, to have innovative and challenging ideas for future research, to demonstrate a capacity themselves to produce work of international quality, to have the breadth and flexibility necessary to contribute to the Department’s teaching at all levels, undergraduate and graduate, and where appropriate, to seek external research funding. The successful candidates will also be expected to make a general contribution, e.g. examining and administration, as required within the Department and Faculty.
Applications, including a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a short personal statement, the University’s cover sheet for employment (Form PD18, of which Parts 1 and 111 only need be completed, may be obtained from the Faculty’s website at www.sps.cam.ac.uk or from Dr Griffin), and the names of two or three referees should be sent to Dr Mary Griffin, Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ, telephone 01223 334520, fax 01223 334550, e-mail sps-enquiries@lists.cam.ac.uk, to reach her not later than Friday 24 November 2006. Applicants should ask their referees to write directly to Dr Griffin by the same date.
Applicants are asked not to submit work electronically; they should instead indicate which of their publications they would like the committee to read. Should these prove difficult to find in the Cambridge libraries, the committee may ask if hard copies can be sent by post or courier, as appropriate. Applicants shortlisted for interview will be contacted soon after 14 December. The interviews for appointment, which will include a short presentation, will take place on 8 and 9 January 2007.
Further information on the University (including form PD18) can be found at www.cam.ac.uk, on the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at www.sps.cam.ac.uk. The present Head of the Department of Politics, Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn, will be pleased to answer any question by e-mail or telephone. He can be contacted at gph21@cam.ac.uk.
Appointments made at University Lecturer level will be for a probationary period of five years, with appointment to the retiring age thereafter. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer is currently £32,471 to £41,133 a year. Further information about working at Cambridge and the additional benefits provided, can be found under Cambridge Life on www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/.
The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences endorses the University’s commitment to a policy and practice which require that entry into employment with the University and progression within employment be determined only by personal merit and by the application of criteria which are related to the duties of each particular appointment and the relevant stipend or salary structure. The aim of this policy is to ensure that no applicants for an appointment in the University, or member of staff once appointed, receives less favourable treatment than another on the grounds of sex, age, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, marital status, sexual orientation, family responsibility, trade union activity, political or religious belief. The University’s recruitment and selection procedures also follow best practice in recognition of disability and the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. Applicants with a disability are invited to ask for any special arrangements for interview or adjustments they believe they may need, if appointed, in their work. They may mention these at the point of application or wait until they are called for interview. Selection criteria and procedures will be kept under review to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. If any employee considers that he or she is suffering from unequal treatment on any of the above grounds, he or she may make a complaint which will be dealt with through the agreed procedures for dealing with grievances.