Senior Lecturer/Professor in Social and Public Policy

This post is full-time (35 hours per week) and is offered on an open-ended basis. The School of Social and Political Sciences is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer/Professor with specialism in Social and Public Policy within the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy. You will play a senior leadership role by conducting internationally excellent research, delivering research-led teaching, and pursuing external engagement. Urban Studies and Social Policy is an internationally leading multidisciplinary group of social scientists. The Division consists of three Subjects: Place and Built Environment; Urban Analytics; and Social and Urban Policy. It hosts a large undergraduate programme in social and public policy and a suite of Masters programmes as well as a well-established doctoral programme part-funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (ESRC). Urban Studies and Social Policy is home to the UKRI-funded Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) and the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), alongside numerous other grant-funded research programmes. It has developed strong global partnerships, especially through its Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC). We are keen to attract candidates with expertise related to one or more of the following specialisms: welfare state, welfare systems and welfare conditionality in comparative perspective; inequalities and social justice (e.g. health, education, criminal justice, climate emergency, poverty); lived experience of marginalised communities; international social and public policy; and social and public policy in Global Majority contexts. £58,596 to £65,814 per annum (Grade 9) or Grade 10, Professorial range and subject to negotiation.

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