JOB: Teaching Fellow in Sport (temp)

Teaching Fellow in Sport
School of Applied Social Sciences
Durham University

Salary:£29,704 - £30,594 per annum  Grade:Grade 7  Contract:Fixed-term, Full-timeHours: Nominally 35 hours per week. PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY

The School of Applied Social Sciences is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow post in Sport to support the delivery of its undergraduate BA Sport programme. The post will ideally deliver the undergraduate module Sports Policy & Sports Development, and contribute to teaching on the Research Methods module, Researching Sport, and to Sports Policy in Action. This is a 10 month fixed-term position.

Faculty of Social Sciences and Health

The Faculty has over 4500 undergraduates and an expanding cohort of some 3100 postgraduate and research students. The Faculty comprises over 430 academic staff in 9 departments and schools (Department of Anthropology; the School of Applied Social Sciences; the Department of Archaeology; the Durham Business School; the School of Education; the Department of Geography; the School of Government and International Affairs; the School for Health; and the Department of Law), making it one of the larger faculties of Social Science in the UK.

The individual successes of our departments continue to play a major part in sustaining Durham's world class reputation. RAE ratings have an increasingly important influence on global reputation and a direct impact on our ability to attract staff, students and research income. In RAE 2008, departments and schools across the Faculty scored well. Ranked on the basis of grade point average, two departments (Archaeology and Geography) were ranked first nationally, a further three departments (Law, Education and School of Government and International Affairs) were ranked in the top ten, and Durham Business School, Social Work, the School of Applied Social Sciences, the School of Medicine and Health and Anthropology within the top 20. At least a half of the research in the Faculty was considered to be internationally important in every one of our schools and departments and in many of our units of assessment the quality of the research environment was noted.

Our research centres also play an important role in developing key research and enterprise activities both within departments and across the Faculty. Current research centres include: the Centre for Iranian Studies (CIS); the Centre for the History of Political Thought; the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies; the International Landslide Centre; the Centre for the Study of Cities and Regions; the Centre for Past Peoples and Palaeoenvironments (CP3); the Centre for Roman Culture; the Centre for Public Policy and Health; the Centre for Medical Humanities; the Centre for Integrated Health Care Research; the Durham Human Rights Centre; the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (CCLCJ), the Durham European Law Institute (DELI); and the Institute of commercial and corporate law (ICCL). The Faculty also plays a key leadership role in a number of University Research Institutes including the Institute of Advanced Study, the Institute of Hazard and Risk Research and the Dur!
ham Energy Institute.

Finally, the Durham Business School is one of only eleven Schools in the UK to carry all three quality kitemarks from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.

The Faculty is committed to further developing our research support and investing in our infrastructure, notably high quality library, IT, laboratory and other facilities. For example, in 2008 we saw the completion of a £5.6M extension to Geography to house the new Institute of Hazard and Risk Research and a £3.5M refurbishment of the Dawson Building to co-locate the Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Law will move into a new purpose-built landmark building in 2012.

The post is subject to standard probationary terms. Further information will be issued in the contract of employment.

Pension:Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) Holidays:30 working days' holiday plus statutory holidays, and 4 'customary' holidays, normally allocated to the Christmas break Contact for informal enquiries:

Dr S Bock
0191 334 6995
susan.bock@durham.ac.uk

Application Process:

We prefer to receive applications on-line. Please attach your CV and a covering letter, giving details of how you match the person specification. The job description and person specification can be found by following the links from the left-hand menu. We can post a vacancy details pack (including application form) to you, if you telephone our answering service on
           0191 3346499    or e-mail   recruitment.team@durham.ac.uk

Closing Date for Applications:12/09/2009

See:
     https://jobs.dur.ac.uk/jobdtls.asp?Session_in=&Uid=&vref=3319