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Vacancy: Career Development Fellow in Modern History, Jesus College, Oxford

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Closing date: Friday, 8 December 2017

Salary: A starting salary of £31,604 p.a., free meals in College, College office equipped with computer and printer, an annual research allowance of £1,000 p.a. and teaching book allowance worth up to £250 p.a. are offered.

Jesus College, Oxford invites applications for a Career Development Fellow in Modern History (19th and/or 20th Century), tenable for four years from 1 October 2018. The CDF is open to those intending to pursue an academic career and applicants should have been awarded their doctorate in the last five years or be nearing submission of their doctoral thesis. Teaching will be in the 19th and/or 20th Century, with a strong preference for applicants with interests in British History from 1830 onwards, notably with expertise in the fields of British imperial, colonial or international history. A starting salary of £31,604 p.a., free meals in College, College office equipped with computer and printer, an annual research allowance of £1,000 p.a. and teaching book allowance worth up to £250 p.a. are offered.

Further information on the CDF including job description, selection criteria, and how to apply are available in the PDF attachment below, or can be obtained from the Principal’s Secretary, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW (principals.secretary@jesus.ox.ac.uk), to whom applications and references should be sent by Friday 8 December 2017. Interviews are likely to be held on 2 February 2018.

Jesus College is an equal opportunities employer.

Further details and particulars here.

Jesus College graduate scholarship, linked with GLGW

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Jesus College, Oxford Graduate Scholarship, generously funded by members of Jesus College History alumni.

This scholarship is linked to the TORCH network Globalising and Localising the Great War (GLGW) project, History Faculty, University of Oxford, for research on the First World War.

We wish to encourage applications for proposed doctoral theses to be based in the History Faculty that relate to the main project areas of GLGW:

• The Global-Imperial Dimension
• The Economics of War and Peace
• Global War and World Religions
• Military Law and Military-Civil Relations
• Global Cultural Representations of Conflict

When making the application it would be helpful to use the phrase ‘This proposed topic would fit with the Globalising and Localising the Great War Programme’ in the thesis proposal and to mention a member of the Programme as a prospective supervisor. We would wish particularly to encourage transnational and comparative projects, and would also welcome interdisciplinary projects.

Eligibility – Home/EU applicants
Value – Jesus College funds University and college fee, and full living expenses
Duration – up to four years (depending on period of fee liability)
Application – via University application form for graduate study by the January 2016 application deadline

For more information on Jesus College, see here.
For more information on the History Faculty, see here.
To apply, see the University of Oxford Application Guide here.

We hope to be able to contact successful candidates by 1 May 2016.