Lecturer in Past Climates and Earth System Change

To provide cover for an internal secondment the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Past Climates and Earth System Change.

The successful candidate should share our passion for high quality research and research-led education and will contribute to a range of undergraduate Earth and environmental science teaching, including geology practical classes and fieldwork. You will also co-supervise postgraduate research students. The successful candidate will show evidence of the ability to develop and sustain an internationally-recognised, externally-funded interdisciplinary research programme in Past Climates and Earth System Change and we are particularly interested in hiring a colleague who uses ocean sediments and/or geochemical proxies to investigate Earth system change.

The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences is a lively and dynamic community that aims to promote sustainability through education, dissemination and direct participation, enabling students and staff to make positive changes to our environmental impact, in particular supporting Cardiff University’s declaration of a Climate Emergency and aim to become carbon neutral (Scopes 1 and 2) by 2030.

The School is committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for promoting inclusive working practices in STEMM subjects in higher education. Staff and students from the School are active members of the global Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) community. We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority because they are under-represented within the School.

The position is full-time (35 hours per week), available immediately and is a three-year fixed term appointment.

The appointment will be made, dependent on relevant qualification and experience, within the following grade band:

£39,347 to 44,263 per annum (Grade 6)

For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Jenny Pike, Head of School, Email: pikej@cardiff.ac.uk or Professor Andrew Kerr, Director of Learning and Teaching, Email: kerra@cardiff.ac.uk

For further details about working in Cardiff University please contact Claudia Peña via email: earthhr@cardiff.ac.uk

More information on the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences - Cardiff University

Important Notes:

Applications can only be accepted via the online system.

It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined in the Person Specification. Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number.

Closing date: Thursday, 15 August 2024

This post has previously been advertised to employees of Cardiff University only.  We now invite external applications.

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Cardiff University is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions we will evaluate applicants on the quality of their research, not publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which the research is published. More information is available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/our-research-environment/integrity-and-ethics/responsible-research-assessment.