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University offices: Vacancies

The University follows an equal opportunities policy and has a policy on arrangements for part-time work.

Applications are invited for the following University offices:

University Lecturer or University Assistant Lecturer in the Department of French

University Lecturer or University Assistant Lecturer in the Department of French to take up appointment from 1 October 1998 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate should have a record of research and publication in the literature or thought of the nineteenth century or show clear evidence of potential publication. He or she will be expected to participate fully in the teaching of nineteenth-century French at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in the Department's language teaching programme and in the teaching of the first-year literature course, and to collaborate in the nineteenth-century French module of the Faculty's M.Phil. in European Literature. An ability to contribute to Faculty teaching on French cinema would be an advantage. The appointment will be made at either University Lecturer or University Assistant Lecturer level, depending on the age and experience of the person appointed, and will be for three years, with the possibility, for a University Lecturer, of reappointment to the retiring age or, for a University Assistant Lecturer, of reappointment for 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 scales of stipends are:

University Lecturer: £19,371 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to £29,875.
There is no grade of Senior Lecturer.
University Assistant Lecturer: £16,045 a year, rising by six annual increments to £21,016.

Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, e-mail ih10004@cus.cam.ac.uk, (http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/jobs.htm), to whom applications (hard copy), including a curriculum vitae, the names and addresses of two or three referees, and a full list of publications, should be sent so as to reach her by 4 March 1998. (There is no application form.) Candidates are asked to request their referees to write directly to the Secretary by the same date.

University Lecturers or University Assistant Lecturers in the Department of Physics

Two University Lecturers or University Assistant Lecturers in the Department of Physics to take up appointment on 1 October 1998 or as soon as possible thereafter. The persons appointed will be required to teach and carry out advanced research in physics. Appointments will be made at University Lecturer or University Assistant Lecturer level, depending on the age and experience of the person appointed, and will be for three years, with the possibility, for a University Lecturer, of reappointment to the retiring age or, for a University Assistant Lecturer, of reappointment for two years. The statutory limit of tenure of a University Assistant Lectureship is five years, but all University Assistant Lecturers are considered for possible appointment to the office of University Lecturer during the course of their tenure.

The pensionable scales of stipends are:

University Lecturer: £19,371 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to £29,875.
There is no grade of Senior Lecturer.
University Assistant Lecturer: £16,045 a year, rising by six annual increments to £21,016.

Applications (two copies) including a curriculum vitae, list of publications, and outline of research plans, together with the names and addresses of three referees, should be sent to the Secretary of the Appointments Committee for the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, so as to reach him not later than 31 March 1998. Further particulars may be obtained if required from Professor M. S. Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HE (tel. 01223 337429, fax 01223 363263).


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Cambridge University Reporter 5727, 4th February 1998
Copyright © 1998 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.