ABOUT US

The Department of Geography (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/geography/) is widely recognised as one of the leading geography departments in the world (4th worldwide in the QS Ranking 2025, 2th in the Shanghai world rankings 2024). It has been highly rated in all seven UK Research Assessment Exercises, and the 2021 REF confirmed that 96% of the Department’s research activity is considered World Leading (4) or Internationally Excellent (3).
UCL Geography spans a broad range of Human and Physical Geography and we are committed to cross-disciplinary teaching and research. Research within the Department is currently organised into seven clusters: Environment, Politics, and Society; Environmental Change and Biodiversity; Past Climates; Environmental Modelling and Observation; Culture and Migration; Global Urbanisms; Geospatial Analysis and Computing. We are adding a new research cluster in Geographies of Health in 2025-26.
Staff are actively engaged in cross-disciplinary initiatives in UCL, including the Institute of Advanced Studies, the UCL Anthropocene initiative, and the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the study of Racism and Racialisation. In addition, UCL geographers collaborate with Archaeology, Anthropology, Political Science, Earth Science, Computer Science, Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE), Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering (CEGE), including via the new People and Nature Lab at UCL East.
Research in Physical Geography is also supported by three main laboratory facilities: the Geography Laboratories; the Bloomsbury Environmental Isotope Facility (BEIF), and the UCL Environmental Radiometric Facility (ERF). BEIF is a joint facility with the Department of Earth Sciences.
The Department is committed to the idea of Geography as a global discipline and welcomes applicants with regional expertise from across the world. We are dedicated to increasing understanding of the world as precursor to making the planet a better, fairer place, and we are searching for a colleague who shares that goal. Our staff and students often engage with local community groups, campaigning organizations, government, international organisations, businesses and schools in order to connect global knowledge to specific local issues. We are very proud that research and teaching undertaken by members of the Department of Geography at UCL has had an impact in changing the world for the good in both big and small ways. We are searching for a new colleague who shares our commitments to collegiality, inclusivity and openness.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The UCL Department of Geography is seeking to appoint a part time, one-year fixed term Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Environment, Politics and Society at 0.5FTE from September 2025. This is a 0.5FTE, one-year fixed term role to cover a member of staff. The salary range for this position is Grade 7, SP 33-37: £46,796 - £51,860 pro rata, per annum (including London Allowance).
The position will support teaching in Human Geography across the department, with a strong focus on delivering content for students on the MSc Environment, Politics and Society programme. The Department encourages applications from those trained in relevant aspects of human geography or an array of relevant social science fields who can undertake tutorial support across our first year curriculum.

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan Relocation scheme for certain posts;
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insuranc