Chancellor's Fellowships

**UE08- £44,414 - £52,841**

**Moray House School of Education & Sport, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences**

**Full time, 35 hours per week**

**Fixed term (5 years in duration, with a view review to possible open ended conversion thereafter)**

Chancellor’s Fellowships are designed to support talented early career researchers to develop into a leading research-active academic at the University of Edinburgh.

The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is appointing up to 10 Chancellor’s Fellows, who will have a demonstrable track record of innovative research, teaching and/or knowledge exchange, and the potential to make an outstanding contribution to furthering the University’s and the College’s strategic goals.

Applications are welcome from researchers from any discipline represented in the College, working on any topic of research. Within Moray House School for Education and Sport, our key research themes are:

- Advanced Quantitative Research in Education
- Children and Young People
- Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Digital Education
- Language, Interculturality and Literacies
- Social Justice and Inclusion
- Sport-Related Research
- Teacher Education
- **Health and Well-Being **research and innovation in the College encompasses the medical/health humanities, arts, and social sciences. Key cross-College initiatives are the Mason Institute and the new Edinburgh Mental Health Network. Indicative research topics of interest to Schools in the College include (amongst others): archaeological science, ancient medicine, and history of medicine; psychological therapies; physical activity, health, and wellbeing; sports science; children and young people’s rights, education, and wellbeing; literature and medicine; digital health solutions; social aspects of mental health; health, well-being, and employment; refugees, health, and humanitarian action.
- **Sustainability and Climate Change **research and innovation in the College encompasses environmental humanities, arts, and social sciences. Cross-College interests in this theme are now brought together in the new Edinburgh Earth Initiative. Indicative research topics of interest to Schools in the College include (amongst others): ancient climate and environmental history; ecopoetics in textual and visual media; architectural computing, urban data science, and sustainability; ecocritical approaches to the study of literature, film and culture; transnational/global cultures of climate change; environmental philosophy; decolonization and sustainable development; interdisciplinary narrative futures; climate change finance and investment; climate change economics; climate change and management; environmental regulation and sustainability; sustainable ocean science; ocean science and heritage; sustainability and cultural heritage; the implications of climate change for food security, migration, and displacement; social justice and inclusion; teacher education in sustainability.

For this recruitment programme, the diversity data you provide may be shared with the panels for the purposes of taking lawful steps to meet our aims for diversity in appointments.

More information on Moray House School of Education and Sport can be found on our web pages Moray House School of Education and Sport | The University of Edinburgh
- A curriculum vitae, including: career/employment history and details of any career breaks, specifying the duration of any breaks in months; a summary of formal training and qualifications; relevant experience and evidence of recognition such as prizes and memberships of professional bodies and a list of publications/outputs. Please restrict the total length of the CV and outputs list to a maximum of 5 pages of A4.
- Please also attach a short covering letter.
- A two-page outline of your proposed research programme, including: a research plan which particularly concentrates on for the first 2-3 years and highlights particularly novelty and uniqueness; details of any planned activities to maximise collaboration, partnership and knowledge exchange; where relevant, identification of any alignment to School, College and/or University research strategies; fit to applicant track record (skills, experience and outputs).

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens in new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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