Assistant Professor in Politics

University of Sussex; Brighton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - GBP 47,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Brighton is seeking an Assistant Professor in Politics on a part-time basis for a fixed term of six months. The successful candidate will engage in teaching undergraduate modules, including topics like The Far Right and Politics of Immigration. Applicants must hold a PhD in Politics or a related field and have experience at the university level. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in an academic team are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Experience in teaching related to far right parties and immigration.
• Ability to interrelate gender politics and British politics.
• Commitment to student support and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to undergraduate teaching of various political modules.
• Deliver lectures and seminars on taught topics.
• Provide administrative support during research leave.

Skills

Teaching at university level

Excellent communication skills

Research expertise in political areas

Education

PhD in Politics or related discipline

Job description

Assistant Professor in Politics Ref: 42234 (Part Time, Fixed Term)

Brighton, UK

Hours

Part time of 0.6 FTE / 22.5 hours per week.

Grade 7 starting at £38,784 to £46,049 per annum, pro rata if part time.

Contract Type

Fixed Term Contract

About the role

The School of Law, Politics and Sociology seeks an enthusiastic and committed Associate Professor in Politics to join our department on a fixed-term basis for six months. This role is to provide teaching and administrative support during a period of research leave within the team. This role sits on the Education and Scholarship pathway.

The successful candidate will contribute to undergraduate teaching, assessment, and student support. They will convene The Far Right and Politics of Immigration and deliver lectures and seminars on modules such as Feminism and the Politics of Gender and The Neoliberal Age? Interpreting Modern Britain, as well as other core modules.

About you

You will have a PhD in Politics or a related discipline. You will have experience teaching at a university level. Ideally, you will have research expertise in areas related to the modules required to be taught. This could include, but is not limited to, far right parties, immigration, gender politics, and British politics. You should have excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within an academic team.

About our Division

Politics is a well-established and successful research-led department with a record of excellence in research assessment exercises and in teaching. The department is home to 20 faculty and around 600 students. We have a thriving Masters in Corruption and Governance course which recruits between 15-20 students per year, together an online distance learning version of the degree. The department is home to the internationally renowned Sussex European Institute and the Centre for the Study of Corruption, and also has research strengths in British politics, party politics, citizenship and migration, and various phenomena that challenge the existing political order such as populism, anti-politics and protest politics. In the most recent REF, 96% of the department’s outputs were regarded as either world-leading or internationally excellent and the department’s GPA rose from 2.90 in 2014 to 3.38 in 2021. We performed in the most recent NSS improving our scores in almost every category with 85% of respondents evaluating our teaching positively.

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led international university and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.

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