Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Health and Medicine, and Public Health

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

Background

The School of Policy and Global Affairs is an internationally excellent centre of research and learning on the human condition. It is home to over 2,500 students and 100 staff across three departments: Economics, Sociology and Criminology, and International Politics.

The Department of Sociology and Criminology has established an international reputation as a centre of excellence in the research and education. The Department has been ranked 5th nationally and 1st in London in the 2021 REF. It offers an exceptional and varied programme of study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and runs a well-established PhD programme. The Department is home to high-profile research centres including: the Centre for Justice Reform; the European Social Survey (ESS) centre, the Violence and Society Centre, the Work and Society Centre, and the new Centre for Online-Safety, Safeguarding, Privacy and Identity (COSPI). For more information on the courses and modules we currently provide please see our website.

Responsibilities

The post holder will contribute to the development and the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate digital media sociology degrees. You will also undertake doctoral supervision and contribute to the research profile of the Department, publishing high quality, impactful research.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in the Sociology of Health and Medicine or Public Health. With a track record of innovative teaching and facilitating learning.

We seek to build on our strengths in sociology by appointing a candidate who can contribute cutting-edge teaching and research in the sociology of health and medicine. You will have the expertise to teach in some of the following areas: the sociology of health and illness, medical sociology, public health policy, health inequalities, mental health, and health and wellbeing.

Additional Information

Closing date: 20th April 2025 at 11:59pm.

interviews: w/c 12th May 2025.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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