Reporter 5/2/03: University of Oxford

University of Oxford

PROFESSORSHIP OF CANCER PREVENTION AND CONTROL

Applications are invited for the above non-clinical post, which is available immediately for a fixed term of five years in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology. The Department houses the NTRAC Co-ordinating Centre, funded by the NHS R and D directorate to create a network of comprehensive cancer centres. The Professorship is funded for five years to help build the necessary research infrastructure especially in the field of cancer prevention and control. The successful candidate will have a high research profile, with international recognition for achievement in cancer epidemiology, and a dynamic current research programme.

The post will be associated with a non-stipendiary professorial Fellowship at Worcester College.

LADY MARGARET PROFESSORSHIP OF DIVINITY

Applications are invited for the above post, based in the Faculty of Theology, tenable from 1 October 2003. The University seeks to make an appointment of the highest academic standing; holders of the post have included John Webster, Archbishop Rowan Williams, John Macquarrie, and F. L. Cross.

A Canonry at Christ Church is annexed to the Professorship. At the time of taking up the appointment, the appointee must be in Priest's Orders in the Church of England or in an Episcopal Church in communion with the Church of England. Candidates should therefore either be ordained, or be eligible for, and prepared to accept, ordination.

The Professor will be required to deliver lectures and give instruction in theology, and to undertake original work and the general supervision of research and advanced work in his/her subject. The successful candidate will have an international reputation in scholarship and research, and will be expected to contribute, through personal research endeavour and through leadership, to maintaining a programme of research and teaching at the highest level in Christian theology (either historical or contemporary) at Oxford, and to exercise leadership in the subject in the UK.

KING ALFONSO XIII PROFESSORSHIP OF SPANISH STUDIES

Applications are invited for the above post, which is available from 1 October 2003. The Professor will be required to lecture and give instruction in Spanish studies, to undertake original work in her/his subject, and to promote generally the study of Spanish in the University. The Electors will seek to appoint the best available candidate without restriction as to field of study within the general area of the post. The successful candidate will have an international reputation in scholarship and research, and will contribute both through personal research endeavour and through leadership, to maintaining a programme of research and teaching at the highest level, and to ensuring long-term development and interest in the subject in Oxford, and its wide recognition outside.

A non-stipendiary Fellowship at Exeter College is attached to the Professorship.

Further particulars on all Professorships, including details of how to apply, are available from http://www. admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/ or from the Registrar, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD (tel. 01865 270200). The closing date for applications is Monday, 31 March 2003.

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