Career Opportunities at Queen's

About the job:

This is a permanent, full-time academic post to teach and supervise at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Ancient History, to deliver high-quality research appropriate to stage of career, and to contribute to the School’s administration activity.

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics is one of the largest and most diverse Schools at Queen's University Belfast, exploring culture and society from the origins of humanity and ancient history to contemporary debates around politics and government. We are also home to a number of research centres, which bring together clusters of research conducted by academics in the school and beyond.

About the person:

As the successful candidate, you will have the following core criteria:

• Completed Ph.D. in Ancient History or cognate subject.
• Evidence of research output development in Ancient History appropriate to stage of career.
• Evidence of ability to contribute teaching to modules in Ancient History.
• Evidence of ability to carry out administrative duties appropriate to post.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills, including the ability to work as an effective team member.
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills, with sufficiently developed English language skills to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate education.
• High level of analytical capability.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits/. 

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity.  

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport. 

Candidate Information