Lecturer in Central Asian Politics and Society at UCL
Job Description
About us
Founded in 1915, the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is one of the UK’s largest institutions for research and teaching on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the Baltic region and Russia. Our mission is to create in-depth knowledge of the SSEES region in comparative, transnational, and global contexts, and to promote and disseminate an understanding of our region to the wider world; to develop multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and multi-method approaches to knowledge creation and to teaching; and to enhance the development of area studies at UCL and among the wider academic community.
We offer undergraduate, postgraduate taught and postgraduate research programmes, both in our four core disciplines (Economics and Business; Politics and Sociology; Languages and Culture; and History) and in our interdisciplinary programmes (for example, our BA in History, Politics &; Economics).
About the role
The postholder will conduct research and teaching on Central Asian politics and/or societies and their underpinning methodologies at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
They will maintain a track record of high-quality research publications; plan, develop, submit and secure external research grant funding; contribute to the School’s interdisciplinary research culture and environment, including its research centres and seminar series; engage with non-academic actors, communities and stakeholders, including the media and the public, to disseminate and secure impact from research; supervise postgraduate research students to timely submission and completion; and provide academic and pastoral support and advice to undergraduate and postgraduate students, serving as a Personal Tutor.
About you
The postholder will have in-depth cultural knowledge of one or more of the Central Asian republics and their politics and/or societies as well as some expertise of the broader geopolitical context. The successful candidate is expected to have a working knowledge of a Central Asian language.
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