Departmental Lecturer in Ethics
Fixed-term: 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2027
The Faculty of Philosophy intends to appoint a Departmental Lecturer in Ethics to cover the teaching and other duties of a permanent postholder during a period of externally-funded research leave. The post is fixed-term up to 30 September 2027. The post will be associated with Hertford College. This is a full-time role and postholders should not expect to be able to take on any additional teaching while occupying this post.
The successful candidate will be expected to be able to deliver lectures in Philosophy to undergraduates, including ethics, and to be able to provide graduate teaching in Philosophy (classes and supervision). They will be expected to deliver 6 weighted hours per week during term time of undergraduate tutorial teaching for Hertford College, and they will be expected to contribute to general oversight of philosophy teaching within the college, e.g. organising tutorials by other tutors, preparing and marking collections (termly college tests), student feedback, admissions, and pastoral care of undergraduates.
For the college, the successful candidate must be able to give tutorials in Moral Philosophy, which is one of the core elements of the “Introduction to Philosophy” course taken by first-year philosophy students (see http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/course-descriptions-first-public-examination-fpe for more detail). In addition, ability to teach the advanced (second year and beyond) paper in Ethics is required, as is ability to teach at least one further core advanced paper, from: Early Modern Philosophy, Knowledge & Reality, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Logic & Language, Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Ethics, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophical Logic. The ability to teach more than one of these further papers is desirable.
Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.
Visa support is also available for successful applicants from overseas.
How to apply
Applications are made through our online recruitment portal. Information about how to apply is available on our Jobs website https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/how-to-apply.
Vacancy Reference 171929
CLOSING DATE: All applications must be received by midday UK time on the 13th May 2024.