Academic Associate - Social Sciences

The role is designed to provide an opportunity for a mix of teaching and research. The successful candidate will support the delivery of teaching and learning related activities across our undergraduate programmes in Criminology and Sociology. This may include teaching and providing tutorial support, as well as any necessary preparation, assessment and marking of assessment as required by the department. The successful candidate will undertake a PhD in Social Sciences, with any appointment conditional upon acceptance to a PhD programme at York St John University for full time study.

Further Information

An appointment to this role will include a tuition fee waiver/scholarship for UK applicants only.

Your application must include a project proposal of up to 1000 words in response to one of the project outlines.

For informal enquiries please m.spokes@yorksj.ac.uk or the named contact on the project outline document.

Unfortunately this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship however we welcome your application if you are able to evidence right to work in the UK via an alternative route.

We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive policies and facilities to support staff from different backgrounds. As part of our commitment to providing an inclusive working environment, consideration is given to all requests for job share or flexible working arrangements.

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York St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

As one of the fastest growing universities in the UK over recent years, we have a new strategy for the next decade, emphasising our commitment to widening opportunity through the power of education and contributing our talents to creating a fairer world, and a more prosperous region. We are putting inspirational learning and impactful research at the heart of this strategy, recognising our academic expertise as our greatest asset.

The department

Social Sciences, clustered within the York Business School, is an ambitious academic community, and as part of our research expansion we are seeking to appoint 2x Academic Associates to our key project areas (outlined in the additional project outline document). As an Academic Associate you will complete your PhD in four years whilst contributing an average of 6 hours contact time per week to the taught curriculum in Social Sciences.

Please note that CVs are not accepted in place of the application form. Within the application process you will be asked to answer a selection of work-related questions. Our aim is to get to know you, and understand your individual skills and experience, and how you would apply these within the role. We are aware that AI can assist you with this, but we would prefer you to share your answers in your own words.

Our benefits package

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including -

- Excellent annual leave entitlement, including five discretionary university closure days over the Christmas period

- Disability leave (applies to staff who have disclosed a disability and is also available to staff with disabled dependants)

- Pension scheme

- Health Cash Plan after six months service

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists

- On-campus courses, one-to-one tutorials, and online resources to help you develop your digital skills and work with new software

- Relocation expenses package for certain roles

- Reimbursement of Skilled Worker Visa application fees and Visa loan scheme for additional costs (if applicable to the role)