St Edmund Hall proposes to appoint a Stipendiary Lecturer in History from the beginning of Michaelmas Term 2025 to the end of Trinity Term 2026 (1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026). This is a fixed-term post to cover Professor David Priestland’s sabbatical leave.
The Lecturer will be expected to provide 6 hours of teaching per week during term time to undergraduates. Please note, this is an average and these hours will not necessarily be evenly spread. The post-holder will be expected to teach undergraduates and visiting students in two or more of the European and World History outline papers in modern Global history. The post-holder will also be expected to teach Special and/or Further and/or Optional Subjects in the same period and area and be expected to contribute to the Finals Disciplines of History paper and the Prelims Approaches to History paper (an ability to teach one or more of the following would be welcome: Anthropology; Economics; Environment).
The appointment will be made on the Senior Tutors’ Committee recommended scale for 6-hour Stipendiary Lecturers (in the range £16,569 to £18,308 per annum) and will be pensionable with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). The successful candidate will be entitled to a research allowance at the rate of £925 per annum.
The Lecturer will also be entitled to take up to 5 lunches and 2 Formal Hall dinners per week at the Common Table throughout the period of the appointment whenever the College Kitchen is open and the use of a bookable teaching room.
Applications should clearly show how skills and experience meet the criteria contained in the Further Particulars.

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