Ref Number B16-01720
Professional Expertise Academic
Department School of Education (B16)
Location London
Working Pattern Full time
Salary £52,762-£62,035
Contract Type Permanent
Working Type Hybrid
Available for Secondment No
Closing Date 17-Apr-2025
About us
IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.
Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Centre for Time Use Research
- CLOSER
- EPPI Centre
- Quantitative Social Science
- Social Science Research Unit
- Thomas Coram Research Unit
All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.
About the role
We are looking to appoint a Lecturer in Sociology to contribute to teaching and research. Applications are welcomed from any field of sociology. The successful candidate will be expected to enhance our interdisciplinary research portfolio, with a focus on the application of social science research methods to real world problems. You will be expected to seek research funding from a range of sources, and to be able to generate demonstratable impact and engagement in their work. In addition, you will also be expected to contribute to teaching and module leadership within the MSc Sociology programme.
For further information on this post, please contact Dr Janice Tripney; email: janice.tripney@ucl.ac.uk
About you
The successful candidate will have a PhD in Sociology, a Sociology sub-discipline, or a closely related field. You will have a publication record, or clear potential for publishing, in internationally well-renowned, general-interest sociology journals. In addition, you will have experience of teaching sociology to diverse groups of students, preferably at the postgraduate level and have the ability to teach sociology students from a range of methodological backgrounds, including quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.
It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
