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University offices: Vacancies

The University is committed to equality of opportunity and has a policy on arrangements for part-time work.

Applications are invited for the following University offices:

Four University Lecturers in the BP Institute

Four University Lecturers in the newly formed BP Institute. BP Amoco have made a generous benefaction to the University to support the formation of an interdisciplinary research institute to carry out fundamental research on multiphase flow in rocks, pipes, process equipment, and systems, involving collaboration with five Departments. The Departments are Earth Sciences (host Department), Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Engineering. The benefaction will fund a Professorship of Petroleum Science, to which Professor Andrew Woods has been elected, and four University Lectureships. The holders of the four Lectureships will carry out research in the Institute and teach in the appropriate collaborating Departments to whose establishments their posts will be assigned on the recommendation of the Board of Managers for the BP Institute Fund. The interests of the Institute will encompass many aspects of multiphase flow, with an aim to understand the fundamental processes involved. To this end, research will incorporate theory, laboratory experiment, and field observation.

Applications are invited from those interested in one or more of a wide range of disciplines in multiphase flow including the following broad areas:

The appointments will be initially for three years with the possibility of reappointment to the retiring age.

The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer is £20, 811 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to £32,095.

Ten copies of a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a 1,000-word statement of current and intended research directions, and the names, postal addresses, and e-mail addresses of three referees, should be sent to the Administrator, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, by 23 October 1999 (e-mail mij10@esc.cam.ac.uk). Candidates are requested to ask their referees to write direct to the Administrator by the same date.

For further information, please contact Professor Andrew Woods (e-mail woods@esc.cam.ac.uk) or the Administrator, Margaret Johnston, at the above address.

University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law

University Lecturer to take up appointment on 1 January 2000 or as agreed. The person appointed will be expected to teach in the area of European Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level, conduct and supervise research, and play a part in the general work of the Faculty, including that of the Centre for European Legal Studies. The appointment will be for three years in the first instance, with the possibility of reappointment to the retiring age.

The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer is £20, 811 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to £32,095.

Further details can be obtained from the Secretary of the Appointments Committee for the Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ, to whom applications, a curriculum vitae and the names of three referees should be sent by 3 September 1999.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 28 July 1999
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