Lecturer in Human Geography

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Full-Time, Fixed-Term (12 months)

Applications are invited for a fixed term (12 months) teaching focused post in Human Geography at Lecturer level in the Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London. 

The successful applicant will join a department with an outstanding reputation for its teaching and student support, with some of the very strongest ratings for student satisfaction (NSS) in the UK. They will be dynamic and enthusiastic with the ability to inform and inspire students, and a strong commitment to excellence in teaching. The Department has a strong community ethos and mentoring, and further training will be available to the successful candidate.  

In 2018 the Department was awarded the Athena SWAN Silver Award from the Equality Challenge Unit, recognising exceptional commitment and excellence in the advancement of gender equality. 

The successful candidate will engage with and extend the work of the Department’s Social, Cultural and Historical Geography Group (SCHG) and/or the Geopolitics, Development, Security and Justice Group (GDSJ). The SCHG Group has played a leading role in the development of the subject in the UK, working across themes of place, landscape and mobility, creative and collaborative geographies, transnational material cultures, visual cultures of exploration, print culture and travel, sacred spaces, multi-culturalism and urban modernities. 

The GDSJ Group represents a significant cluster of academics in the UK working on critical issues across political, development and social geography, as well as developing interdisciplinary connections to international relations, cyber security, development studies, anthropology, disaster studies, health and others. The Department also leads the Centre for GeoHumanities, a major initiative linking arts and humanities scholars and practitioners, geographers and the creative, cultural and heritage sectors. It showcases and fosters work with an arts and humanities orientation on issues that have a strong geographical resonance, such as space, place, landscape and environment.

Applicants should demonstrate appropriate expertise in Human Geography related to the potential teaching areas of the post. Specifically, potential teaching areas include second year teaching in GG2052 Political Geography and 2053, Cities and postgraduate teaching on the MRes programmes, as required. In addition, the postholder will contribute to the 1^st year tutorial program and undergraduate and potentially MRes dissertation supervision, as required.

The successful applicant will join one of the UK’s strongest Geography Departments, situated with the School of Life Science and the Environment, with research specialisms in cultural and historical geography, geopolitics and security, development and environmental justice, and Quaternary Science. High scores in the National Student Survey (91% overall satisfaction in 2024) are combined with research excellence, with the Department ranked 5^th in the UK in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. 

In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement 
• Training and Development opportunities
• Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution 
• Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing. 
• Free parking 

The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the University is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park and within commuting distance from London.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Simon Blockley at simon.blockley@rhul.ac.uk

For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk 

Please quote the reference: 0425-082

Closing Date:   23:59, 2 May 2025

Interview Date: 20 May 2025  

This position is not eligible for hybrid working.

Royal Holloway is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and encourages applications from all people regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, parental status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or trans status or history. More information on our structures and initiatives around EDI, including information on staff diversity networks, can be found on our Equality and Diversity Intranet page.