Lecturer In Sociology

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This post is being recruited as part of UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures

UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures is re-imagining and addressing the complex and intertwined societal, environmental and political challenges faced across the world. These include social and gender-based inequalities, geopolitical shifts, migration, health and climate change and the urgent need to foster a more caring and liveable world for all. The imperative to develop more collective and social visions of the future is more pressing than ever. By driving innovative, critical, theoretical, participatory and community-engaged research, UCC Futures – Collective Social Futures will foster excellence in social research to understand, re-envision and enact our collective social futures.

UCC wishes to appoint an experienced academic to the role of Lecturer in Sociology. Reporting to the Head of Department, the appointee will contribute to core teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate level, especially in the areas of Social Theory and Research Methods. The appointee will design and develop modules within their specialist areas which complement existing offerings within these programmes, and undertake supervision at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level. The appointee will conduct research and publish according to disciplinary expectations and promote the mission of the Department as a whole.

The appointee will also contribute to the Collective Social Futures initiative within UCC, which asserts that ‘the interdisciplinary social sciences are key in understanding, reframing, addressing and re-imagining the complex and intertwined nature of the societal, environmental and political challenges we face and their possible solutions. Building from an acknowledgement that mutual interdependencies underpin the complex worlds in which we live, CSF will examine key global challenges and suggest alternative ways in which we can understand, examine, re-envision and enact our social futures.’ Sociological perspectives are crucial to this vision, and the appointee will contribute to the development of Collective Social Futures through their scholarship.