Lecturer in Sociology

About us

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

• Centre for Longitudinal Studies
• Centre for Time Use Research
• CLOSER
• EPPI Centre
• Quantitative Social Science
• Social Science Research Unit
• Thomas Coram Research Unit

All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.

About the role

We are looking to appoint a Lecturer in Sociology to contribute to teaching and research. Applications are welcomed from any field of sociology. The successful candidate will be expected to enhance our interdisciplinary research portfolio, with a focus on the application of social science research methods to real world problems. You will be expected to seek research funding from a range of sources, and to be able to generate demonstratable impact and engagement in their work. In addition, you will also be expected to contribute to teaching and module leadership within the MSc Sociology programme.

About you

The successful candidate will have a PhD in Sociology, a Sociology sub-discipline, or a closely related field. You will have a publication record, or clear potential for publishing, in internationally well-renowned, general-interest sociology journals. In addition, you will have experience of teaching sociology to diverse groups of students, preferably at the postgraduate level and have the ability to teach sociology students from a range of methodological backgrounds, including quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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