Assistant Professor In Education

The School of Education seeks to appoint an academic to support the delivery of our undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes. We invite applications from candidates with an emerging research profile in the broad fields of Education, and we particularly welcome applications from those who have an additional focus in International and Intercultural Communication and Education. Their activity should be aligned to the School’s areas of research activity. Successful applicants will be expected to actively contribute to one or more of the School’s Thematic Research Clusters. For more information on these see: www.dur.ac.uk/departments/academic/education/research/areas/. The School of Education at Durham University is one of the best in the country and beyond. The School represents an environment that is conducive to producing research of world-leading quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability. This is evidenced by the fact that, for instance, in the most recent Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF 2021), 86.7% of the publications produced by colleagues at the School of Education were considered world leading or internationally excellent in terms of their rigour, significance and originality. At the same time research conducted at the School of Education has a strong impact beyond academia as it changes or benefits the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life (100% of impact case studies submitted to REF 2021 were considered outstanding in terms of their reach and significance). The School of Education is committed to research-led and research informed teaching and diversity in approaches to accommodate needs and potential of student learners. Our current portfolio of teaching ranges from undergraduate programmes (a BA in Education Studies and a BA in Primary Education), through Postgraduate Taught Masters pathways (from MA Education to MA Research Methods) to Postgraduate Research. Overall, we are ranked 5th in the Complete University Guide, and have a top 100 ranking in both the QS and THE 2023 World University Rankings by subject. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. Successful candidates will ideally be in post by September 2024. For further information please refer to the Job Description and see: www.dur.ac.uk/education/