Teaching Fellow in Human Geography - Durham, United Kingdom - Durham University

Durham University

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Teaching Fellow in Human Geography

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Department of Geography

Grade 7:

£35,333
£41,155 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

Contract Duration: 12 months

Contracted Hours per Week: 35

Closing Date: 09-Feb-2023, 5:59:00 PM

Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement:
Not Applicable.

Durham University

About Durham University

As one of the UK's leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career while enjoying a high quality work/life balance.

We are home to some of the most talented scholars and researchers from around the world who are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

The University sits in a beautiful historic city where it shares ownership of a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Durham Cathedral, the greatest Romanesque building in Western Europe.

A collegiate University, Durham recruits outstanding students from across the world and offers an unmatched wider student experience.

The Department

The Department of Geography at Durham comprises 65 academic staff (approximately equally divided between physical and human geography), a graduate school of around 100 research students, around 40 taught postgraduate students and 850 undergraduates.

The Department is well supported with technical staff, including a cartography unit, and administrative staff.

We are ranked 12th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject We are recurrently ranked in the top handful of programmes in the UK by various league tables.

We are ranked 2nd in the Times / Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021, 6th in the Guardian University Guide 2021 and 3rd in the Complete University Guide 2021.

The most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2021 placed us joint first in the UK for iGPA (average score scaled by proportion of staff submitted), with a 100% 4* score for our research environment.

Our aim is to sustain and support hubs of leadership in geographical scholarship - broadly conceived. We will maintain our reputation for theoretical and conceptual innovation so that we are shaping and leading debates globally.

We will continue to engage concepts and materials from across disciplinary boundaries to renew geographical scholarship and bring geographical perspectives to bear in other domains.

We work across every continent and most major oceans and embrace the full diversity of methods and data available to the discipline.

We are further developing our core undergraduate programmes and will be recruiting world leading staff accordingly to ensure these programmes continue to offer the highest quality of education that develop students with skills to advance scholarly and public debates to which geography is central.

The quality of our undergraduate students, and the degree programmes which ensue, combine with our large graduate school to provide a teaching experience for staff that is truly excellent.

The Role
Applications are invited for a Teaching Fellow in Human Geography.

We are particularly eager to hear from applicants in any area of Human Geography with the capacity to teach human geography material on climate change and the environment to both BA and BSc students.

_Teaching Fellowships offer the opportunity of valuable experience to those early in their academic careers and the University is keen to maximise the benefit to as many people as possible.

The post of Teaching Fellow will involve a significant teaching load, which may extend into the summer period, and there may be related scholarship and the opportunity for administrative duties which relate to education and pedagogy.

The post is for a fixed term only, and it is not anticipated that the post will be extended beyond this fixed term, which will end 12 months after appointment.

Successful applicants will, ideally be in post by 1st September 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Key responsibilities

Teach parts modules in appropriate learning environments at undergraduate/postgraduate levels, including material on climate change and contributions to research methods, subdisciplinary and fieldwork teaching.
Demonstrate the ability to manage own teaching and designing, planning and writing of teaching materials;
Lead some aspects of modules and contribute to modules led by others by collaborating with colleagues on course development;
Develop and deliver an inclusive curriculum and make an active contribution to an inclusive community in which diversity is embraced and celebrated;
Seek and take on board feedback on teaching and engage with others in CPD;
Supervise undergraduate and taught postgraduate projects/dissertations.
In addition to Board of Studies, membership of some departmental committees and professional body memberships;
Student support, assessment of academic performance and provision of feedback
Undertake effectively and efficiently any administrative role allocate