Assistant Professor (Research & Education)

Assistant Professor (Research & Education) (

Job Number:

25000439)

School of Education

Grade 8: - £46,735 - £55,755 per annum

Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date

: 14-May-2025, 10:59:00 PM

Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement: Not Applicable.

Working at Durham University

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As one of the UK’s leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career. The University is located within a beautiful historic city, home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and surrounded by stunning countryside. Our talented scholars and researchers from around the world are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things in the world. Being a part of Durham is about more than just the success of the University, it’s also about contributing to the success of the city, county and community.

The role

The School of Education invites candidates with a specialism in safeguarding and child protection in an educational context to join the Global Centre for Contextual Safeguarding (GCCS). Research experience in safeguarding and child protection in education is essential, this may also align with the School’s Thematic Research Clusters, particularly the research areas of international and cross-cultural education, digital education and online harm or teacher education and development. The successful candidate will contribute to development of education and training programmes within the GCCS working with interdisciplinary colleagues (Professor Carlene Firmin- Co-PI Sociology, Professor Pablo Munoz- Co-PI Business & Enterprise, Dr Rosie Ridgway Co-PI Education) as we develop our online training and professional development offer. Practitioner experience in working with children and young people, in schools or in education related contexts would be beneficial.

Key Responsibilities:

• To pursue research that is high quality in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
• To develop clear plans for the pursuit of national and international funding opportunities to support research and end-user engagement.
• To contribute to the GCCS CPD and training offer enabling the development and delivery of new online and in person materials promoting Contextual Safeguarding
• To play a role in relevant teaching and research supervision, and contribute to ongoing curriculum development.
• Contribute to enhancing the quality of the research environment in the Department, the wider University and beyond through collaborative research activity.
• Demonstrate a willingness to contribute to the administrative work, citizenship and values of the Department.
• To deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment.
• To fully engage in and enhance the values of the Department.
• To contribute to attracting and supervising research students, and to enhance the Department’s commitment to its vibrant and inclusive postgraduate culture.
• Carry out other duties as specified by the Head of Department and the GCCS leads.
  
  

Essential Criteria

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualifications – a good first degree and a PhD (or close to completion at the time of application) in Education or a related subject
  
  

Research

Candidates must have the capacity for and be progressing towards the independent development of internationally excellent research that produces high-quality outcomes, including some work that is recognised as world-class or that has world-class potential.

Essential Education Criteria

• Innovation – experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrate your contribution to new programme development and innovation in the design of curricula and delivery of high-quality teaching and assessment of learning.
  
  

Contact Information

Department contact for academic-related enquiries

Dr Rosie Ridgway, Associate Professor, Ed.HR@durham.ac.uk

How To Apply

We prefer to receive applications online.

Please note that in submitting your application Durham University will be processing your data. We would ask you to consider the relevant University Privacy Statement Job Applicants/Potential Job Applicants - Durham University which provides information on the collation, storing and use of data.

What To Submit

All applicants are asked to submit:

• A CV
• A covering letter which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above.
• Personal research plan.
• Two (up to four) of your most significant pieces of written work. Where possible your written work should have been published or submitted since 2021, however work prior to 2021 may be submitted where candidates have had career breaks.
  
  

Where possible we request that you provide accessible web links to your publications, which the hiring Department will use to access your work. The application form contains fields in which to enter each of the web links.

Please ensure that your PDFs are not larger than 5mb. Your work may be read by colleagues from across the Department and evaluated against the current REF criteria.

All application documents should be uploaded with your name and document type as PDF files.

Referees

You should provide 3 academic referees they should not (if possible) include your PhD supervisor(s). The majority should be from a university other than your own.

References will be requested for candidates who have been shortlisted and will be made available to the panel during the interview process.

As part of your application, you will be asked whether you give your consent to your academic references being sought should you be invited to attend an interview. We will only request references where permission has been granted.

Next Steps

All applications will be considered; our usual practice is for colleagues across the Department to read the submitted work of long-listed candidates.

Short-listed candidates will be invited to the University, either virtually or in-person and will have the opportunity to meet key members of the Department. The assessment for the post will normally include a presentation to staff and students in the Department and GCCS followed by an interview and we anticipate that the assessments and interviews will take place over two days in or around WC 19th June 2025.

If you are unable to attend on the date offered, it may not be possible to offer you an interview on an alternative date.

Applicant Guidance

For further guidance on your application please see HERE