University Research Leader – Health, Science and Planetary Change at Goldsmiths, University of London

We are seeking the appointment of Professors with outstanding records of internationally recognised research and publications, together with an established track record of significant income generation through research grants or business/industry funding. We are also seeking candidates with academic and non-academic networks and collaborations who can evidence how their research has had demonstrable societal impact.

These Professors will play a significant role in helping Goldsmiths to grow as a leading research institution. They will advance strategic research priorities for the University. They will lead programmes of research that will speak to, and help define, strategic research areas over future years and will address a clear societal need and challenge. We are also looking to appoint individuals who will support a flourishing research culture by encouraging and inspiring early career colleagues in their research endeavours.

These are permanent, full-time posts. For the first three years, the role will be focused on developing a programme of research and winning funding. Given the significance of these posts, the University will provide each successful candidate with three years of funding for a dedicated postdoctoral researcher and/or PhD studentship, together with non-salary research related budget of up to £20k per annum.

About the Strategic Priority Research Area – Health, Science and Planetary Change

Health, Science, and Planetary Change will focus on how science is done, and how knowledge in and of health is made and challenged, in times of change, to produce novel insights into the governance of ‘crisis’, health, and dis-ease in the twenty-first century, influencing policy-making and engaging with a diversity of publics. The research area will develop research that is critical and interdisciplinary, collaborative in its methods and approach, emphasising the making of knowledge ‘from below’. It will advance its overarching mission through externally-funded empirical research around the following themes:

• Global Crises, Planetary Health, and Dis-ease. Social study of health futures, ecological precarity, and uncertainty;
• Politics of Evidence. Social study of evidence-making and intervention translation in health and policy;
• Health Justice. Studying social relations of access to care, critically voicing marginalised and stigmatised experiences and practices.

While based in the Department of Sociology and Goldsmiths, it is envisaged that the University Research Leader appointed will operate through partnership with institutes, centres and scientists engaged in clinical, epidemiological and interventions research in the UK and globally. The research area will contribute directly to the strategic priorities and research goals of the Department of Sociology and Goldsmiths, advancing cutting-edge translational research in relation to the priority research area of ‘Health and wellbeing’, as well as creating collaborative connections with ‘Climate change and environmental sustainability’ and ‘Creative technology, creative industries or the broader creative economy’.

We would especially welcome applications from colleagues of colour and/or majority world scholars as part of our commitment to racial justice.

How to apply Please complete the University’s application form, available from j.san@gold.ac.uk. This should be accompanied by your CV and a letter of application (no more than 3 pages), which should outline the proposed programme of research and your suitability for the role.

Applicants should ideally be available to take up the role from the beginning of January 2024 onwards.

Interviews: Monday 18th September 2023. Interviews will ideally be in person but arrangements can be made for online interviews should candidates be unable to attend in person.

No agencies please