Current Vacancies

Bursar

St Hugh’s College intends to elect a Bursar to take office in 2012.  The Bursar is the College’s chief administrative officer, responsible to the Governing Body for the College’s finances, non-academic staff, site and buildings, and domestic operation.  The Bursar plays a central strategic and managerial role in College affairs.  This is an exciting and challenging position at the heart of one of Oxford University’s largest colleges.  The Bursar will be a Fellow of the College.

Further information is available here or from the Principal’s Secretary, St Hugh’s College, St Margaret’s Road, Oxford OX2 6LE (email catherine.barton@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk).  The closing date for applications is 24 February 2012.

ST HUGH’S COLLEGE, OXFORD
AND THE FACULTY OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Tutorial Fellow and Titular University Lecturer (CUF) in History

St Hugh’s College and the Faculty of History propose to make a joint appointment in History from 1 October 2012. The postholder will be a Tutorial Fellow of St Hugh’s College and a Titular University Lecturer (CUF) in the Faculty of History (becoming a University Lecturer (CUF) following the first five years of appointment). This post is open to scholars with an outstanding record of research and publication in later seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European (including British) History. Preference may be given to those with a specialism in any area of the Intellectual History of this period, and who can offer a good range of teaching within at least part of the period 1500-1830. The postholder will have a normal college teaching load in early modern history, and on the Faculty side will be one of the core post-holders teaching an active graduate community specialising both in intellectual history and in seventeenth/eighteenth-century British and European history, as well as teaching specialist undergraduate papers.

The stipend of the Fellow will be on the University’s Academic Scale, (Grade 10a: £42,733 - £57,431); a housing allowance is also available.

Applications should be submitted to the Academic Registrar, electronically or in hard copy, by Friday 17th February 2012. Click the following link to view the Further particulars for this post.

Ptarmigan Postdoctoral Research Fellowship,
in association with St Hugh’s College

The Department of Economics, in association with the Ptarmigan Career Development Fellowship at St Hugh’s College, offers a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for candidates who have recently been awarded a doctoral degree or will have by December 2012. Fellows enjoy the freedom and facilities to develop their research portfolios.

Fellowships are tenable for a fixed term of three years from October 2012; shorter appointments are considered in exceptional circumstances. Fellows gain teaching experience via a teaching load for both the college and department (college: 48 hrs, made up of 24x2 hr undergraduate tutorials during term; department: 30 units typically either 10 hrs of lectures or 15 hrs of graduate class teaching. Consideration will be given to any field of specialization.

Further particulars and details of how to apply can be found here.

University Lecturership in Psycholinguistics

 

The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and St Hugh’s College propose to appoint to a University Lecturership in Psycholinguistics, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship, with effect from 1 October 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Applications for the post are invited from suitably qualified scholars in Psycholinguistics, preferably specialising in adult experimental psycholinguistics, and with expertise in both neuroimaging and behavioural aspects. Candidates should have an outstanding research reputation and a publication record of international quality which will contribute substantially to the submission of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics for the Research Excellence Framework.  Early career applicants should show outstanding research potential.

Candidates should have received the degree of PhD by 1 October 2012. The successful candidate must demonstrate a research record of international standing appropriate to the stage of his or her career; the ability to deliver excellent tutorial teaching and to give lectures and classes; the ability to act as an examiner; the ability to supervise graduate students; and a willingness to undertake administration and pastoral responsibilities on behalf of both the college and the University.

The combined college and University salary for this post will be on a scale from £42,733 to £57,431 p.a.

Further particulars, including details of how to apply, can be found here.

Applications must be submitted by email to the Faculty Administrator at the above address by no later than 12.00 noon on 9 March 2012.

St Hugh’s College, Oxford is an equal opportunities employer.

A copy of the equal opportunities form can be found here.