Lecturer

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Applications are invited for a full-time, permanent appointment as Lecturer in Children’s Studies at University of Galway.

Children's Studies at University of Galway is a highly innovative, interdisciplinary, child-centred area of teaching and research that looks at children and childhood from a holistic perspective. It draws on a broad range of disciplines, including children's literature and culture, the creative arts, education, psychology, drama, law and human-rights, history, health, geography and sociology with the aim of providing students with a broad-based knowledge and appreciation of the social, cultural and legal frameworks in which childhood is constructed.

The Discipline of Children’s Studies in the School of Education runs two undergraduate programmes in Children’s Studies: BA with Children’s Studies, taken to degree level with two Arts subjects; Denominated BA in Children’s Studies, as well as a postrgraudate degree, MSc in Adoescent Health. National and international demand for the BA with Children's Studies has risen consistently since the first programme came on stream in September, 2008. Following the launch of the denominated BA in Children’s Studies in 2016, there are currently over 400 students enrolled across both programmes at undergraduate level.

The current appointment is in the area of Child Law and Policy. Candidates will have a PhD in Law, Public Policy or Children’s rights or a cognate discipline, with a demonstrable focus on children’s law and policy. The appointee must also have relevant prior teaching and administrative experience at third level in an area relevant to child law and policy, and have a record of child-centred research, commensurate with Lecturer Above the Bar. The appointee with contribute to teaching on all undergraduate years of the Children’s Studies programmes, and contribute to the development and delivery of taught postgraduate modules. The appointee will undertake administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the programmes, such as module, year and programme coordination, and Erasmus/placement coordination.