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The School of Social, Political and Global Studies is currently recruiting a Senior Lecturer in Education, with a specialism in teacher education and / or early years education. This post represents an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join a well-established Education team who are part of a multi-disciplinary school, bringing together academics in Criminology, Education, International Relations, Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology to deliver single and combined honours degree courses, pioneering taught postgraduate programmes and postgraduate supervision with world-leading researchers.
The successful candidate will be a multi-faceted academic with an Education specialism across teaching, research, programme administration, leadership, and management of partnership. They will have an international profile in a research area relevant to Education and be able to make an outstanding contribution to teaching and research supervision at all levels in these areas. They will be expected to demonstrate abilities to lead on programme development and delivery, public engagement and outreach, and student recruitment, and be able to develop and sustain an excellent programme of research, making an outstanding contribution to research of Education, and contributing actively to the general culture of the subject, School and Faculty. The ideal candidate will have a sustained record of supporting development of partnerships with external providers. We welcome applications from academics working in the field of Education, preferably, although not exclusively with a specialism in teacher education and / or early years education.
The University is committed to operating flexible working practices wherever possible.
Keele University values equality and diversity across our workforce and to ensuring our staff community is reflective of the diversity of our student population. In support of these commitments the University welcomes applications from individuals of Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds for all roles.
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Informal enquiries may be made in confidence to Professor Mark Featherstone (m.a.featherstone@keele.ac.uk) , Head of the School of Social, Political, and Global Studies.