Permanent, full-time position.
Applications are invited for a full time Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
The successful candidate will be suitably qualified to contribute to core and optional teaching on the department’s undergraduate and postgraduate Sociology programmes, with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: gender and sexuality, environmental sociology, social justice, and quantitative and qualitative methods.
We welcome candidates whose work traverses two or more of these areas, and/or our other existing research and teaching strengths in Race, Ethnicity and Migration, Science, Expertise and Markets, and Social Theory.
To find out more or arrange an informal conversation about the role, please contact: Sociology-HoD@warwick.ac.uk.
Interview Date: TBC.
Job Description
JOB PURPOSE
You will have the ability and willingness to contribute to teaching on core and optional modules for Sociology undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. You will have a willingness to use and develop further e-learning tools and innovative teaching techniques within the classroom to a diverse student body.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Teaching and Learning Support
1. To contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the Department of Sociology.
2. To collaborate with members of the Department of Sociology to enhance and sustain our undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses.
3. To participate in and contribute to research activities in the Department.
4. To give lectures, seminars, tutorials, and other classes as appropriate in support of the required teaching obligations.
5. To develop your own teaching materials, methods, and approaches with guidance from colleagues in the Department.
6. To supervise undergraduate and postgraduate project work, providing advice on study skills and with learning problems.
7. To ensure that student feedback on teaching is sought through questionnaires and other sources and to respond constructively to such feedback.
8. To ensure that teaching meets the standards expected within a research-led University.
9. To undertake academic duties (i.e. setting examination questions, marking and providing constructive feedback, invigilation and pastoral support of students) required to sustain the delivery of high-quality teaching.
10. To support and comply with the University and Departmental teaching quality assurance standards and procedures including the provision of such information as may be required by the Department or the University.
Administration and Other Activities
1. To undertake such specific departmental roles and management functions as may be reasonably required by the Head of Department.
2. To attend departmental meetings and to participate in other committees and working groups within the department, the faculty, and the University.
3. To publish any research outcomes in appropriate journals of international standing and to publish and disseminate the result of research and scholarship in other outlets.
4. To attend and present any research findings and papers at academic and professional conferences, and to contribute to the external visibility of the department.
5. To undertake external commitments, which reflect well and enhance the reputation of the University.
6. To ensure compliance with health and safety in all aspects of work.
7. The duties and responsibilities outlined are not intended to be an exhaustive list but provide guidance on the main aspects of the job.
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
The Department of Sociology at Warwick has a strong tradition of critical, public-facing, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of society, with cutting-edge research on social theory, race and ethnicity, gender and feminism, the sociology of employment, social inequalities, and global social change dating from the 1970s. Our commitment to equality and diversity is reflected not only in our staff but also our student body.
The successful candidate will join a department that supports staff to produce excellent research and teaching with wider-reaching impact and good citizens who have a wide societal impact. Teaching is at the core of our departmental culture, and we are looking for academic colleagues who take the co-production of knowledge with our students as seriously as we do. Decolonising the curriculum underpins our pedagogic philosophy in Sociology.
Our strategic plan places people at the centre; our staff and students engage in ideas that have lasting impact.
PEOPLE
We are working to enhance student experience by offering new programmes in Sociology, Criminology, and in collaboration with departments across the Faculty of Social Sciences, including the development of placement modules to enhance employability and a new MA programme in Gender and Sexuality. We actively support equality and diversity and staff and student wellbeing, and our ongoing work in this area has been recognised through a Silver Athena Swan Award (2023). Across our research, teaching, and public engagement activities, we are committed to environmental sustainability, social justice, and addressing social inequalities. We continue to foster the next generation of researchers through our postgraduate and early career researcher communities.
IDEAS
We aim to create an environment in which students are co-producers of knowledge; academic staff are creators of excellent research, and professional services staff, as part of continuing engagement, feel able to express and implement creative responses to the challenging University environment. We have two research centres: the Social Theory Centre and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. We also have a close working relationship with the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Research within the Department of Sociology covers the broad span of the discipline and is organised in terms of six research clusters (Theory, Methodology and Practice; Feminism, Gender and Sexuality; Race, Ethnicity and Migration; Crime, Rights and Social Justice; Science, Expertise and Markets; Climate and Environment). We achieved a ranking of 10th in REF 2021.
RELEVANCE
We develop opportunities for staff and students to engage with the local community through meaningful impact activities. Students and staff are encouraged to fully engage with public engagement and impact. We optimise reach and significance of the department by supporting staff to undertake distinguished positions in external boards and associations.
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University of Warwick holds an Athena SWAN Silver award; a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. Further information about the work of the University in relation to Athena SWAN can be found at the following link: Athena Swan (warwick.ac.uk)
The University of Warwick is one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University alliance, whose aim is to become by 2025 an open, multicultural, confederated operation of connected campuses.
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Benefits and Rewards
Please refer to this link for a full list of our employee benefits here at Warwick here.
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