08/12/2021
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We're delighted to have advertised a lectureship which will facilitate the IMS's long-standing work of supporting and integrating the teaching of Medieval Studies across the faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Cultures at Leeds:
"We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities. The post-holder will work across four of the Schools that currently constitute the Institute for Medieval Studies (History, English, Languages Cultures and Societies (LCS) and Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies (FAHACS)) to support the development of a shared approach to digital humanities and online pedagogies. They will help shape the contribution of Medieval Studies at Leeds to developing inclusive, interdisciplinary pedagogies and enhancing diversity within our curricula. The potential to collaborate with the Special Collections department of the Brotherton Library, or to build fruitful relationships with colleagues teaching the creative industries, performing arts or media studies would be an advantage."
The closing date is Monday 10 January; we especially welcome applications from demographics that are under-represented in the IMS (notably ethnic-minority and disabled scholars).
This is one of a swathe of lectureships being advertised as part of Leeds's new 'curriculum redefined' scheme (https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/transformative-educator-jobs), the brainchild of our new deputy vice chancellor for student education (https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/7575/curriculum-redefined-a-once-in-a-career-opportunity-to-build-the-next-generation-of-education). Potential applicants may like to peruse https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancies.aspx for other positions to which they could also apply.
We have an open mind as to what constitutes 'digital humanities'. Expertise that falls under this banner might obviously include making innovative use of digitised artefacts and texts; databases and social-network theory; or new-media approaches to teaching or to disseminating research; but we are very aware that applicants may have more interesting ideas about what 'digital humanities' entails than we do.
The position is a 'teaching and scholarship' role rather than 'teaching and research'. Teaching and scholarship roles are focused on pedagogy, and at Leeds are part of a well developed career track. The difference between 'research' and 'scholarship' is not necessarily stark, and 'scholarship' can lead to traditional academic publications. But the emphasis in 'scholarship' roles is on scholarly work that purposefully informs teaching, whether to enable teaching informed by cutting-edge knowledge, writing textbooks, or researching pedagogy. One way for potential applicants to get a clearer sense of how 'teaching and scholarship' roles differ from 'teaching and research' roles is to compare the 'student education' and 'research and innovation' criteria for promotion at https://hr.leeds.ac.uk/info/8/promotions/299/promotions_process/3.
We are appointing to one assistant professor post, to which we will appoint at grade 7 (£34,304–£40,927) or grade 8 (£42,149–£50,296); the job has been listed separately at the different grades:
Grade 7: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=AHCHI1044A
Grade 8: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=AHCHI1044B
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