Assistant Professor in Enterprise and Sociology

In September 2025 Durham University will launch the Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding. The GCCS, led by Durham’s Sociology Department, Business School and School of Education, will bring together departments across the four faculties of the University to: transform how societies understand and deliver services that safeguard young people beyond their homes; create systems that look beyond the capacity of parents to protect children; and build sustainable partnerships in which safeguarding is truly everybody's business. This is not a Centre simply focused on researching and improving existing safeguarding practices; it is instead committed to a radical transformation in how safeguarding is conceptualised, studied, and practiced, and by whom. From hospitality and sports, to social care and youth justice, the GCCS will involve a range of organisations in implementing Contextual Safeguarding locally, nationally and internationally.

Durham University Business School

Dynamic and vibrant, Durham University Business School is one of Durham University’s four Faculties and is comprised of four research-intensive departments: Accounting, Economics, Finance, and Management and Marketing. Known for its global reputation, its impact on policy and practice and its strong focus on ethics, responsibility and sustainability, the School aims to be a leading European business school with a strong global presence by 2027.

We seek to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor in Enterprise and Sociology within the Department of Management & Marketing and the new Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding (GCCS). We welcome applications from those with research and teaching interests in the broad field of Enterprise and Sociology and we are particularly eager to hear from applicants with a strong background in research and a track record in income generation, external engagement, science commercialisation and impact with a focus on, but not limited to, the following areas: 

• Enterprise, marginalisation and inclusion
• Enterprise with people who have been harmed in their personal relationships, communities or by wider systems and services
• Enterprise and innovation in social care

• Enterprise and innovation in social work
• Enterprise, sociology and systems change
• Research impact and social science commercialisation
• Participatory and engaged research
• Interdisciplinary scholarship

This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our Department and the GCCS pages at Management and Marketing - Durham University Business School and https://www.contextualsafeguarding.org.uk

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