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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:
Appointments made at University Lecturer level will be for an initial period of three or five years, with reappointment thereafter subject to satisfactory performance. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer is £22,522 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to £34,734.
Appointments made at University Assistant Lecturer level will be for three years, with the possibility of reappointment for a further two years. The statutory limit of tenure of a University Assistant Lectureship is five years, but all holders of the office of University Assistant Lecturer are considered for possible appointment to the office of University Lecturer during the course of their tenure. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Assistant Lecturer is £19,681 a year, rising by six annual increments to £24,435.
The Department of French intends to appoint a specialist in the field of nineteenth-century French literature. An ability to contribute also to one of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages' comparative papers may be an advantage but is not a requirement of the post. The successful candidate for the post should have either a record of research and publication in the field or be able to demonstrate clear potential for publication. He or she will be expected to take a leading role in the teaching of nineteenth-century French literature at undergraduate level, to collaborate in the teaching of the Faculty M.Phil. in European literature (notably in the modules on 'Romanticism and Revolution' and 'The City'), and to supervise Ph.D. students. The appointment will be from 1 October 2002 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Applications (twelve copies), including a detailed curriculum vitae, and the names of two or three referees, should be sent to the Secretary of the Faculty's Appointments Committee at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, so as to arrive not later than 24 May. (Please note that there is no application form.) Candidates are requested to ask their referees to write directly by the same date.
Candidates may also be invited to submit recent examples of their work for consideration by the Committee or, in the case of work which has been published, to draw the Committee's attention to items of special relevance to their application. They will also be asked to give a short presentation prior to interview. Presentations and interviews will take place on 18 and 19 June. Candidates are welcome to seek further information by contacting Dr Wendy Bennett, Head of Department (tel. 01223 335009, e-mail wmb1001@hermes.cam.ac.uk).
Applications are invited for a University Lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from candidates whose research is in any area of quantum information theory, including quantum computation, communication, and cryptography. Information about the Department is available at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/ and further information about the Lectureship is detailed at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/pvl/lec_further.html or from Professor Peter Landshoff (e-mail p.v.landshoff@damtp.cam.ac.uk).
Applications comprising a curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a statement of research interests and future plans should preferably be e-mailed to Mrs Louise Hall (la214@damtp.cam.ac.uk, postal address: DAMTP, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW) as plain text or as an MS Word attachment. Please ensure your curriculum vitae includes details of your date of birth, nationality, and current position. Please also include the names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of two referees who can be contacted immediately, to reach her by 22 May.
Applications are invited for a University Lecturer in Anaesthesia to take up appointment on 30 June or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful applicant will lead the anaesthesia team and assume responsibility for teaching anaesthesia in the Veterinary School. Currently this involves formal lectures, seminars, and involvement in the clinical rotation. Involvement in the clinical service of the Queen's Veterinary School Hospital is essential.
The Lecturer will also be expected to develop an independent research programme with the Centre of Veterinary Science. There are considerable opportunities for collaboration with existing research programmes in the Veterinary School and elsewhere in the University.
Candidates should have relevant experience and must be a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons or hold a veterinary degree qualifying them for membership. Further professional qualifications such as the RCVS Diploma for Veterinary Anaesthesia or the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Anaesthesia would be an advantage as well as a Ph.D. or equivalent higher degree.
Applications are invited for a University Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology to take up appointment as soon as possible. The successful applicant will be required to provide didactic and practical teaching to all three years of the Clinical Veterinary Course. The successful applicant will also be involved in the provision of a diagnostic pathology service to the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine. This work involves diagnostic histopathology and necropsy.
The Lecturer will be involved in pathology residency teaching and will be expected to assist in the preparation of Residents for professional pathology qualifications. The Lecturer will be expected to carry out research either within the departmental group of pathologists or as a member of one of the research groups within the Department.
Applicants should have relevant experience in pathology teaching and in diagnostic, veterinary pathology, and the enthusiasm to undertake the varied duties and responsibilities of this key position. The applicant should be or qualified to be a member of the RCVS and preferably have a higher qualification in pathology, such as MRC Path, membership of the European College of Pathology or American College of Veterinary Pathology. For further information about the post contact the University Pathologist, Mr A. R. Jefferies (e-mail arj10@cam.ac.uk).
Further particulars on both posts are available from the Secretary, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ES (e-mail rhd28@cam.ac.uk), to whom applications should be sent so as to arrive by Friday, 17 May. A curriculum vitae and publications list with the names of three referees are required but there are no application forms.
Two Residency positions in small animal surgery are available in the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine; one from 1 July 2002 and one from 5 October 2002.
These posts are clinical training positions in the Queen's Veterinary School Hospital and are designed to provide the Residents with a wide range of experience in both small animal orthopaedic and soft tissue surgery. The posts will be under the supervision of Dr R. A. S. White and Ms S. Langley-Hobbs and will be based primarily on the caseload of material referred to the Hospital. In addition, Residents will have an opportunity to gain experience in emergency-critical care and also first opinion cases. To this end, they are expected to participate in the emergency out-of-hours service provided by the Hospital and also in the RSPCA Clinic in Cambridge, which is maintained by the Hospital staff.
Residents will be involved in clinical teaching through the clinical service. There will also be a requirement for small group teaching seminars and some didactic lectures will be expected towards the end of the training programme. There will be an opportunity for the Residents to develop some clinically related research programmes.
These positions are of three-year duration initially although a further year may be granted in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the Department. Residents will be expected to sit the European College of Veterinary Surgery Examinations at the end of the training programme. The salary range for these posts is £22,522 to £26,491 and is subject to annual review.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of two referees to reach Mr Robert Lamb, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, not later than Thursday, 16 May.
This post is an established University Lectureship and is entitled the Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Lectureship in Persian Studies. The Lecturer will be expected to teach Persian language and literature at undergraduate level, and to contribute to graduate (M.Phil. and Ph.D.) teaching and supervision. Candidates should have obtained, or should be about to obtain, a Ph.D. Degree in a relevant subject and will be expected to have a research interest in Persian literature, preferably classical (medieval) literature. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the strong research profile of the Faculty and the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies section, and to demonstrate a commitment to publication. Some previous teaching experience would be an advantage, as would knowledge of Arabic or Turkish.
Candidates should apply in writing to Mrs Jane Fisher-Hunt, Faculty Administrator, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, by 3 May, including a detailed curriculum vitae and list of publications, together with the names of two referees. Interviews will be held in June. There is no application form. Applicants' referees should be asked to write directly to the Administrator to reach the Faculty by the closing date. Previous applicants are welcome to reapply but should contact the Administrator beforehand to discuss what further documentation they wish to submit (if any) in support of their new application.
The Department of Chemistry is seeking a Computer Officer, Grade III, to take up appointment as soon as possible. The appointment will be for five years in the first instance, with reappointment subject to satisfactory performance. The successful applicant will join a team responsible for all aspects of the Department's computing needs, including installation and management of the Ethernet, system management of UNIX workstations and clusters, installation and maintenance of office hardware and software (PC and Macintosh), and offering advice to users. Applicants should have appropriate professional qualifications and relevant experience. Familiarity with Windows NT/2000 system administration is essential, and Linux experience is highly desirable.
The pensionable stipend will be in the range £20,470 to £26,491 a year, according to experience. Further details about the appointment and the Department may be obtained from the departmental website at http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/. Informal enquiries may be addressed to the Senior Computer Officer, Mr Chris Chalk (tel. 01223 336506, e-mail crc10@cam.ac.uk). Applications (including a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of at least two referees) should be sent by Tuesday, 30 April, to Dr H. R. N. Jones, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW (e-mail hrnj1@cam.ac.uk).
A vacancy exists for a Computer Officer, Grade III, in the Management Information Services Division, to take up appointment as soon as possible. The Division supports a number of applications, including Human Resources, Finance, and Student Records, which are all based on Oracle databases with a mixture of bespoke developments and bought-in systems. Residual VMS based systems currently running Oracle 7.3 are being migrated to a Sun Solaris/Oracle 8i platform.
The post-holder will be expected to perform Database Administration tasks within these environments, working closely with system administration and support. Candidates should be educated to degree level or equivalent with DBA experience in an Oracle environment. Experience of Unix system administration and/or Oracle Financials would be an advantage.
The appointment will be for three years in the first instance. Appointment will be at Computer Officer, Grade III, for which the pensionable stipend is up to £26,491 a year.
Further information may be obtained from Ann Aves, Management Information Services Division, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB (e-mail ann.aves@admin.cam.ac.uk), to whom a curriculum vitae, current salary, and two work related referees, should be sent to reach her by 3 May. There is no application form. It is envisaged that interviews will take place on Monday, 13 May.
Applications are invited for the new post of Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics (GEFD) Course Director in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The duties of the post include serving as Director of the Department's annual two-week GEFD summer school, assisting in development of short-course teaching activities in the National Institute for Environmental e-Science (recently established in Cambridge by NERC), developing short courses for industrial clients, and undertaking original scientific research. There is also the possibility of contributing to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate students.
Information about the Department is available at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/ and further information about the Directorship at http://www.atmos-dynamics.damtp.cam.ac.uk/ or from Professor Peter Haynes (e-mail phh@damtp.cam.ac.uk).
The pensionable scale of stipends for this post is £22,522 a year, rising by ten annual increments to £32,537. This is a three-year appointment, with the possibility of extension, and is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Applications comprising a curriculum vitae, list of publications, and a statement of research interests and future plans should preferably be e-mailed to Mrs Louise Hall (l.hall@damtp.cam.ac.uk, postal address: DAMTP, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW), as plain text or an MS Word attachment. Please ensure your curriculum vitae includes details of your date of birth, nationality, and current position. Please also include the names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of two referees who can be contacted immediately, to reach her by 7 June .
Applications are invited for temporary teaching posts in the Faculty of History in the following fields:
Modern British Social and Cultural History. Preference will be given to candidates working in the twentieth century. The post has become available because Dr Peter Mandler has been awarded a one-year Research Fellowship during the academic year 2002-03. The appointment will be tenable from 1 October 2002 for a fixed term of one year at half-time or nine months at full-time. Please quote reference number JMBSCH02.
British Social and Political History, 1050-1500. The post has become available due to the award of a one-year British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to Dr Christine Carpenter. The appointment will be tenable from 1 October 2002 for a fixed term of one year. Please quote reference number JBSPH02.
Twentieth-Century American History since 1933. Preference will be given to a candidate with research interests in the twentieth-century South. The appointment will be tenable from 1 October 2002, for a fixed term of nine months. Please quote reference number JTCAH02.
The posts are available at University Assistant Lecturer level on a salary equivalent to National Spine Point 7 (currently £20,470). Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Faculty of History, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9EF (tel. 01223 335350, e-mail tgh21@cam.ac.uk), to whom applications (ten copies) should be sent so as to reach him not later than Tuesday, 7 May. Interviews will take place in late May or early June. Information about the Faculty of History may be obtained from http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/.
The Department is seeking an individual to take responsibility for the development, co-ordination, and management of the departmental IT strategy in education and design; the teaching of image-manipulation, CAD and website design techniques to undergraduate and Diploma students; and the design and management of the departmental website. Requirements for the post include a B.A. (Hons) Degree in Architecture or equivalent, proven teaching ability, good communication skills, CAD experience at design level (preferably in architectural practice), and demonstrable website design and management skills. The appointment will be for two years in the first instance on the salary scale of £20,470 to £26,491 a year. The post may, subject to the availability of funding, be renewed for a further period or periods. Further details are available on the departmental website at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/ or from Judith Drinkwater, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX (tel. 01223 332966, e-mail ao242@cam.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is 7 May.
Subject to final confirmation of supporting funds, the Department and College hope to be able to make linked appointments as Research Associate (50%) in the Department of Applied Economics and College Lecturer (50%) in Robinson College. The successful candidate will (a) undertake research in the Department of Applied Economics on a project on the macroeconomic and firm-specific determinants of company default, directed by Sean Holly of the Department and Chris Higson of the London Business School, and financed by KPMG, and (b) teach for the undergraduate Economics Tripos and serve as Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College. Applicants should have a Ph.D. Degree in Economics and evidence of research activity in the area of company failure and default. Experience of teaching undergraduates will be an advantage. The appointment will be from 1 October 2002 for three years on the salary scale of £17,626 to £26,491 a year.
Although it is intended to appoint one person chosen in a single process, the successful candidate will be appointed to two concurrent half-time posts with two separate but complementary contracts; one with the University and one with Robinson College (these being independent legal and constitutional bodies). This arrangement will not result in the appointee being less favourably treated than someone appointed on a single full-time contract.
Further details may be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Applied Economics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DE (tel. 01223 335240, fax 01223 335299, e-mail pmg1001@econ.cam.ac.uk) to whom applications, comprising a covering letter, curriculum vitae, and the full contact details of two referees, should be sent to arrive no later than 10 May.
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Cambridge University Reporter, Wednesday 24 April 2002
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