Career Development Fellow in Visual Studies

The University is committed to enabling all our colleagues to achieve their full potential. Durham University’s Career Development Fellowships are fixed term positions, which include structured development support for early career academics to deliver outstanding education, innovative research/scholarship, and to engage in citizenship activities. The post-holder will be a full academic member of the Department, working alongside world-class colleagues, with the support of a designated mentor.

Career Development Fellows will benefit from tailored support to strengthen their skills, will be provided with a range of academic opportunities, and will benefit from protected time to foster different aspects of their career. The Career Development Fellowships will enable early career academics to acquire a strong and well-rounded foundation to support future applications for substantive academic roles at Durham or elsewhere (no guarantee can be given that a permanent role at Durham will be available for the CDF to apply for at the end of the Fellowship).

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to a fixed-term Career Development Fellowship to join the team delivering its innovative BA in Visual Arts and Film and MA in Visual Culture. Both these programmes are dedicated to interdisciplinarity and a global perspective, sharing a commitment to decolonializing approaches which are also being taken up elsewhere in the School.

We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of the Visual Arts, and we are particularly eager to hear from applicants with a focus on Art History and with a track record of engaging with the cultural sector.

This post offers an exciting opportunity to develop internationally excellent research/scholarship and teaching while providing unrivalled, tailored support for your career progression at an exciting and progressive institution.

The School is one of the largest and most successful Schools of Modern Languages and Cultures in the UK. Over the past two decades, the School has also developed a distinctive profile in the transnational and interdisciplinary study of visual culture, broadly conceived, bringing together visual culture research in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Japanese and Russian Studies.

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