Associate Professorship in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politics

The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) in association with St Antony’s College are recruiting to the post of Associate Professorship in Comparative Central and Eastern European Politics to start from 1 September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a joint post with 50% of the position dedicated to DPIR and 50% to OSGA.

Applications are welcome from both early career and established scholars in any sub-field of political science.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach and supervise in comparative Central and East European politics at the undergraduate and graduate level, to contribute to the graduate research design or methods teaching sequences across both departments, and to act as a College Adviser for graduate students and to contribute to the convening of talks and events for the centres at St Antony’s College. They will be expected to play a leading role in the development and delivery of Central and Eastern European politics training within across departments’ graduate and undergraduate programmes. They will also be contributing to the core courses and as appropriate, to other graduate core courses in politics, including methods and research design training. 

DPIR strongly encourages applications from women and/or candidates from a BME background as they are currently under-represented in academic posts. 

If you would like to discuss this post and find out more about joining the academic community at Oxford, please contact Professor David Doyle, Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations (david.doyle@politics.ox.ac.uk/ telephone +44 (0)1865 276827), or Professor Paul Chaisty, Head of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (paul.chaisty@politics.ox.ac.uk/telephone: +44 (0)1865 284779). 

All enquiries will be treated in strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.

How to apply

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a CV and a supporting statement as part of this application. The supporting statement should explain how you meet the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience. This may include experience gained in education or employment. Please also upload a separate research statement and teaching statement. You are also required to provide details of three referees whom you have asked to submit confidential reference letters to vacancies@politics.ox.ac.uk. Please ensure that your referees send their letters by the stated deadline for applications.

Circumstances such as caring responsibilities, ill health or disability may result in the quantity of a candidate's outputs being less than might otherwise be expected, therefore when considering candidate's research and publication record, career breaks will be taken into consideration.

Only applications received before 12:00 midday (UK time) on Friday 3 January 2025 can be considered. Please quote reference 176257 in all correspondence.

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