No 6185
Wednesday 21 April 2010
Vol cxl No 26
pp. 685–756
The Council has appointed members of the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Inaugural Directorship of the Sainsbury Laboratory and Professorships as follows:
The Vice-Chancellor, in the Chair
(a) on the nomination of the Council
Professor Chris Gilligan, K
Dr Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen
(b) on the nomination of the General Board
Professor Dame Jean Thomas, CTH
Professor Brian Staskawicz, University of California, Berkeley
Dr Roger Freedman, the Gatsby Foundation
(c) on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Biology
Professor Tony Minson, W
Professor Sir David Baulcombe, T
Professor Joanne Chory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego
The Council has appointed members of the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Professorship of Ophthalmology as follows:
Professor Adrian Dixon, PET, in the Chair, as the Vice-Chancellor’s deputy
(a) on the nomination of the Council
Professor Patrick Sissons, DAR
Professor Alastair Compston, JE
(b) on the nomination of the General Board
Professor John Forrester, University of Aberdeen
Professor John Pickard, CTH
Miss Louise Allen, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
(c) on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine
Professor Andrew Bradley, W
Mr Richard Miller, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Susan Lightman, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The Council has appointed members of the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Professorship of Sociology as follows:
The Vice-Chancellor, in the Chair
(a) on the nomination of the Council
Professor Henrietta Moore, JE
Professor Per-Olaf Wikström, G
(b) on the nomination of the General Board
Professor William Brown, DAR
Professor Richard Sennett, London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor John Scott, University of Plymouth
(c) on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies
Professor Jacqueline Scott, Q
Professor John Thompson, JE
Professor Michael Mann, UCLA
The Council has appointed members of the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Professorship of Transfusion Medicine as follows:
Professor Tony Minson, W, in the Chair, as the Vice-Chancellor’s deputy
(a) on the nomination of the Council
Professor David Anstee, Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences
Professor Bob Löwenberg, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
(b) on the nomination of the General Board
Professor Anneke Brand, Sanquin Bloedbank Southwest Region, Leiden
Professor Austin Smith
Professor Patrick Sissons, DAR
(c) on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine
Dr Glenn Begley, Amgen Inc. (Hematology and Oncology Research), California
Professor Tony Green, Q
Dr Lorna Williamson, NHS Blood and Transplant
The Board of Electors to the Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the history of the Christian religion, which may include its relations with or comparisons to other major world religions, in any period, and any part of the globe, to take up appointment on 1 October 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Further information is available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/academic/secretary/professorships/, or contact the Academic Secretary, University Offices, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TT (email ibise@admin.cam.ac.uk), to whom a letter of application should be sent, together with details of current and future research plans, a curriculum vitae, a publications list, and form PD18 (parts I and III only) with details of two referees, so as to reach him no later than 14 May 2010.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Richard J. Evans, Chairman of the Faculty of History, West Road, Cambridge (tel. 01223 335345, email rje36@cam.ac.uk).
The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity.
The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Any job application submitted with a curriculum vitae should be accompanied by a Cover Sheet for Employment (Form PD18) which can be downloaded from http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/pd18/, or may be obtained in hard copy from the advertising Department or Faculty.
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Applications are invited for a one-year teaching position in the Faculty of History to replace Dr Simon Szreter during the period of his research leave on a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award. The post will extend from 1 October 2010 until 30 September 2011. Applications are welcomed from scholars working in all areas of Modern British Economic and Social History since c.1870. The post-holder will also be involved in the training and supervision of graduate students, and be expected to contribute fully to the examination and administration of the above papers. The salary will be in the range of £27,319 to £34,607 a year.
Further particulars and application forms for the post can be downloaded from the Faculty’s website (http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/vacancies.html) or may be obtained from the Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Faculty of History, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9EF (tel. 01223 335350, email jen26@cam.ac.uk), to whom completed applications should be sent by 26 April 2010. Please quote reference JJ06447 when applying.
The Department of History of Art is seeking to appoint a half-time unestablished University Lecturer from 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2015. The post-holder will contribute to the teaching of the undergraduate Tripos in the History of Art, including provision of a Special Subject paper on an aspect of modern art. Preference may be given to candidates whose teaching interests include the post-1945 period. Other duties will include contributions to core undergraduate and M.Phil. courses, active research, and some administrative tasks.
Candidates should hold a Ph.D. Degree in a relevant subject, or be able to demonstrate that they will have had their Ph.D. examined before taking up appointment.
Further information about the post, the Department, and how to apply, is available at http://www.aha.cam.ac.uk/vacancies.html, or from Mrs Julia Pettman, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, 1–5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX (tel. 01223 332966, email jwp34@cam.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is 25 April 2010 and interviews will be held on 10 May 2010.
Applications are invited for the post of Temporary Lecturer in Early Modern Studies in French, ideally with a particular interest in the sixteenth century.
The appointee will be expected to contribute to teaching and administration within the Department, undertaking language teaching when necessary, giving lectures in the following undergraduate courses: FR 6, French Literature, Thought, and History from 1510 to 1622 and FR 12, Early Modern Thought, acting as a convenor for one or both of these papers, supervising M.Phil. work in relevant fields, and assisting in Tripos examinations. The post-holder may also be expected to teach the full range of texts set for the first-year literature paper, if he or she chooses to join a College, and to offer specialist language teaching for second and final-year students.
The successful applicant will be required to hold a Ph.D. Degree and to specialize in one of the areas in which he or she will be lecturing. The appointee will have a strong profile, both in terms of research and publications, and the promise of making an outstanding contribution to the Department of French. He or she will have native or excellent non-native command of French and English.
Further particulars for the post are available at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/jobs/. Applications should include a completed form PD18, a cover letter, a detailed curriculum vitae including a list of publications, a statement of research interests, and the names and addresses of two referees who are familiar with the applicant’s work in the relevant field. Form PD18 is available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/pd18/.
All of the application material should be sent by the closing date of 21 May 2010 either by post to the Secretary to the Appointments Committee, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, or by email to jobs@mml.cam.ac.uk. Applicants are requested to ask their referees to write directly by the same date. It is expected that interviews will be held in mid- to late-June 2010. Please quote reference GJ06510 when applying.
Candidates are also invited to submit up to two 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. Shortlisted candidates for the post will be notified at the beginning of June 2010 and will also be asked to give a short presentation of twenty minutes to a mixed group of graduate students and members of the Department prior to the interview itself.
The salary will be in the range of £36,715 to £46,510 a year. The employment will begin on 1 October 2010 in order to provide temporary replacement cover in respect of the research leave of a member of the Department of French. This is a fixed-term post and the period of replacement cover will be until 30 September 2012, subject to satisfactory completion of a probationary period of one year.
The Library Syndicate invite applications for the Munby Fellowship in Bibliography, tenable for the academical year 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012.
The Munby Fellow will be free to pursue bibliographical research of her or his own choosing. It is, however, expected that the Fellow’s research will be, at least in part, based directly or indirectly on the collections of the University and Colleges of Cambridge and likely to be of benefit, in the broadest sense, to scholars using those collections in the future. The Fellow will have no Departmental or other staff duties and responsibilities.
The Fellowship is open to graduates in any discipline of any university and nationality. Preference will be give to scholars at post-doctoral or an equivalent level. The stipend will be £25,751.
A non-stipendiary Fellowship at Darwin College will normally be available to the successful candidate, if not already a Fellow of a Cambridge College. Fellows in these categories are members of the Governing Body of the College and may take meals in the College without charge.
Applications (one copy only) should reach the Deputy Librarian, University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, by 3 September 2010, and should include the following particulars: a completed application cover sheet (form available from http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies/), a curriculum vitae with a list of principal publications, and a statement of the research proposed.
An election will be made in early January. There are no interviews.
Further particulars are available from http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Vacancies/ or by contacting the Deputy Librarian’s PA (tel. 01223 333083, email ame32@cam.ac.uk / aa481@cam.ac.uk). Please quote reference VE06525 when applying.