This is an exciting opportunity to join our thriving History community and gain valuable teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Although this is primarily a teaching role, you will also engage in advanced study and conduct independent research. The post is intended to cover teaching and administrative duties whilst Professor Erica Charters is on research leave.

HSMT and Global and Imperial History at Oxford

The Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology (HSMT) brings together research on the history of science, medicine, and technology across the University of Oxford. Housed in the History Faculty, Oxford HSMT has particular expertise in the history of global and colonial medicine and in the history of science and technology from 1500 to 1900.

Oxford’s Centre for Global History supports research that examines mobility, connections, and migrations in the past, whether of people, ideas, or things. The Centre also brings together a range of scholars who work on various regions of the world, whether they are based in the History Faculty, the Department of Politics, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, or beyond. 

The post is fixed term until 30th September 2024 and is tenable from 1^st October 2023.

About you

You will have research interests in the history of medicine as well as imperial and global history with some knowledge or interest in the history of war, and will also have a willingness to teach across a broad range of subjects which will include the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, as well as Global and Imperial History.

You will hold a completed doctorate in a relevant field, or evidence that a doctorate is close to completion, and possess an aptitude for teaching, the ability to enthuse and inspire students and some experience of contributing to courses on the history of medicine as well as imperial and global history. Some knowledge or interest in the history of war, and the ability to use technological innovations to improve teaching and research. is desirable. 

You will be able to inspire and enthuse students and draw on your own research to inform and enrich your teaching.

Application Deadline: 8 June 2023

More details on the role are available here