Lecturer in International Development

Location: Strand Campus

Contact details: Sarah Bracking. sarah.bracking@kcl.ac.uk

Job description

The Department of International Development, King’s College London, is a young, innovative and contemporary department, with a focus on middle-income developing countries. The mission of the department is to explore the sources of success as well as understand the major development challenges these countries continue to face. We also have a strong focus on social and economic justice and understanding how change for the better happens, both now and for the future. 

The Department is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in International Development. We are seeking a candidate who has an outstanding early career profile of publications and grant capture, with an excellent record of teaching and administration. We are seeking a specialist in international development who is focussed on how we make better futures with people, which embody social and economic justice. We welcome candidates from any foundational social science discipline within the international development field, as well as interdisciplinary scholars. We welcome candidates with an area focus. Our successful candidate will be methodologically proficient within their discipline and clearly focussed on how development research and practice can contribute to better futures of wellbeing and social justice, perhaps using machine learning, digital technology and advanced modelling skills.  

The successful candidate will have a PhD in a relevant development studies discipline and will join an interdisciplinary team currently working in a wide range of areas including political economy, inequality and poverty, gender rights, climate change and natural resources, international trade, migration, and social. gender and racial justice. The post-holder should demonstrate evidence of high-quality relevant research and teaching in international development and fulfil the requirements as set out below. 

This post will be responsible to the Head of the Department of International Development. 

At King’s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation. King’s offers inclusive benefits to staff including flexible working, Enhanced Parental Leave, funds for Parents and Carers and the potential to join community staff networks. 

This is a full-time indefinite post (100% full time equivalent).

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