There’s a one-year (12 calendar months) temporary Lectureship in Political Geography available at Newcastle University for the academic year 2025-26. Newcastle University is a great place to teach and work on political geography with a critical mass of committed scholars and a bunch of enthusiastic undergraduate students. For details see link, and informal enquiries can be made to Al James, Head of Geography, Newcastle University (al.james@newcastle.ac.uk).
Closing Date: 11 April 2025
The Role
Your research and teaching will focus on political geography and will complement and extend our existing research and teaching strengths in political geographies at Newcastle University. Your research will be recognised internationally within your field, and you will be an excellent teacher at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels in Geography. We welcome applicants whose work advances one or more of the following areas: conflict and displacement; civil-military relations; identity and nationalism; geographies of peace; geographies of security; borders and boundaries.
Key accountabilities
You will be expected to:
- Conduct and publish internationally recognised research in the sub-disciplinary area of political geography.
- Contribute to our future submissions to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF).
- Apply for external research funding, including collaborative applications with colleagues within Newcastle University or beyond.
- Engage with potential non-academic users and beneficiaries of your research.
- Participate in our research clusters, particularly Power Space Politics.
- Contribute to, develop and extend teaching across our undergraduate and taught postgraduate Geography degree programmes.
- Become involved with postgraduate research student supervision when opportunities arise.
- Contribute to the administration of the Geography degree programmes and/or administration of other activities in Geography and the School of GPS.
- Provide academic guidance and pastoral support to personal tutees.
- Work in a collegial way, making a positive contribution to our collaborative and inclusive environment in which we value and support excellent research, teaching and impact.
- Take responsibility for your professional and career development with the support and encouragement of your colleagues.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
- A track record, commensurate with career stage, of published research within political geography.
- Research skills based on strong knowledge and understanding of a range of research methods, data sources, analytic techniques and methodologies.
- Experience of applying for research funding.
- Experience of engagement with non-academic research users and beneficiaries.
- Excellent teaching skills, including experience of teaching at Geography undergraduate level in political geography.
- Excellent knowledge of core teaching requirements in human geography undergraduate programmes, including ability to teach research methodologies in Geography.
- Experience of lecturing, seminar teaching, assessment, field courses and dissertation supervision.
- Experience of providing academic guidance and pastoral care to undergraduate students.
Desirable
- Experience of teaching at taught postgraduate level.
- Experience of providing academic guidance and pastoral care to taught postgraduate students.
Attributes and Behaviours
- Commitment to maintaining and supporting a diverse and inclusive working environment, in which all colleagues and students are treated fairly and respectfully.
- Ability to work both within teams and on your own initiative when required.
- Willingness and ability to work collegially, making a positive contribution to a collaborative environment that values and supports excellent research, teaching and impact.
- Willingness and ability to assume administrative responsibilities, including module leadership.
- Willingness (where personal circumstances enable this) to take part in field courses, including residential and non-residential field courses.
Qualifications
- A good first degree and PhD (completed or near completion) in Human Geography or closely related discipline.