Assistant Professor in Heritage and History, University of Birmingham

15 April 2022

This appointment offers an exciting opportunity to join the Department of History and School of History and Cultures at Birmingham. The Department is one of the largest and most diverse in Britain and has an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching. In REF 2014 History was ranked first nationally, with exceptionally high-calibre research publications as well as strong impact beyond the academy.

This appointment reflects the school’s identification of heritage and public history as priority areas across our core activities of education, research, impact, and public engagement. We seek a specialist working in any area of this field to consolidate and develop our research and teaching strengths in History and Heritage. We particularly welcome applications from historians whose research directly links with the department’s established strengths in social and cultural history, including material culture and/or histories of identities. The successful candidate will be expected to support and develop our teaching provision in this area, in the first instance through contributing teaching to our established MA on-campus and distance learning programmes in International Heritage Management and World Heritage Studies and our core second year undergraduate module in Public History, through supervising UG and PGT dissertations related to their own research field, and by participating in the delivery of team-taught modules across our UG curriculum. The successful candidate will be expected to develop optional UG and PGT modules in heritage and history to run in their second and third years in post.

You will contribute to a range of research, teaching and administration.  In addition you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining generous, mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students, and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others can carry out theirs.

Teaching is likely to include a substantial contribution to: (a) the management, development (including programme/module review) and delivery of teaching and assessment; and (b) enhancement of the student experience or employability.  The role will typically also involve developing and advising others, including: (a) providing expert advice to staff and students, (b) supervising and examining PhD students, and (c) developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks and methods. 

Research is likely to involve initiating, conducting and disseminating original research. Your research will have measurable outcomes reflected in your growing national (and ideally international) reputation.

 

Application Deadline: 1 May 2022

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