Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

**UoE09 (£53,348 - £60,022 per annum)**
**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures / Graduate School / Film Studies**
**Open-ended**
**Full time (35 hours/week)**

We are looking for a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

**The Opportunity**:
The Film Studies programme at the University of Edinburgh has a long history of offering postgraduate teaching and supervision to a diverse group of motivated students. The Masters in Film Studies explores central concepts in the development of film criticism, theory and film-philosophy while our PhD students take on a broad range of research topics. The programme engages seriously with the interpretation of film and the history of screen aesthetics. Film Studies is part of the Graduate School in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Sustained research and peer-reviewed publication
- Commitment to high-quality teaching and learning
- Experience of teaching and supervision at postgraduate level
- Willingness to fit in with a team orientation coupled with ability to work independently

**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. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held in April 22 or early May 22

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As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) is one of the largest Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an international community at the heart of the main University campus, drawing connections between people and cultures both within and beyond our School, and thriving on our place in a global festival city. Based in George Square, we are surrounded by world-class resources and collections.

Teaching and Learning

We offer one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, teaching all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.

Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK - one of the longest established in the world - and the oldest Celtic department in Scotland. Arabic has been taught here for over 260 years.

With over 100 undergraduate programmes, many offered with partner Schools in our College, we encourage flexible, interdisciplinary learning. Our four-year undergraduate degrees are specifically designed to enable choice and broaden minds.

Research

LLC is home to many research centres and networks. Often highly interdisciplinary, these groups bring together researchers at all career stages with partners and stakeholders on a range of activities.

In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) over 70% of the School's research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*).