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The University of Manchester Chair in Early Modern History – Call For Applications

The University of Manchester
Chair in Early Modern History

Location: Manchester
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

Applications are invited for the post of Chair in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. Candidates with interests in any area of Early Modern History are encouraged to apply.

Early modern expertise at Manchester stretches from the late medieval Mediterranean to the eighteenth-century British Isles and China with staff making original contributions to global and economic histories, environmental history, social and cultural history, material culture, and history of emotions scholarship. Early modern history at Manchester is distinguished for its engagement with the city’s world-class cultural and research collections, including the John Rylands Library, Whitworth Art Gallery, and Chethams Library. These resources, combined with our staff expertise, enrich our research, public engagement and impact activities and they continue to attract large numbers of high-quality PhD students.

History forms part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, in the Faculty of Humanities. In REF 2014, History outputs were placed joint 4th nationally. Manchester historians have a strong record of attracting external research funding and currently direct or participate in several major ESRC and AHRC projects, as well as receiving income from such funding bodies as the Leverhulme Trust.

We seek an outstanding scholar with strong leadership skills, a clear sense of strategy, and a collegial approach.

You will have an outstanding record of academic publication in Early Modern History, compatible with inclusion in our submission to REF 2021. You are expected to have a proven track record in attracting external sources of research funding, providing research leadership and have a clear plan for future grant applications.

You will contribute to existing undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including the MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. These team-taught courses are subject to review and revision at regular intervals in order to incorporate the interests of new staff. At level 3 you will devise and teach a specialist course based on your area of research expertise. Professorial colleagues are expected to undertake administrative and research leadership roles.

A detailed job description and person specification is available at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYK347/chair-in-early-modern-history.

Applications close on 2 June, 2017.