Assistant/ Associate Professor, Sociology and Mixed Methods at The London Interdisciplinary School

The London Interdisciplinary School was founded with the belief that knowledge – and the need for knowledge – crosses borders. Tackling complex problems like climate change, the ethics of artificial intelligence, or wellbeing in the workplace requires reference to more than one subject. We need to be hybrid. We need to have range. This isn’t about defying ‘conventional’ knowledge. It’s about creating innovative and creative educational experiences to develop a broad, modern skillset. It’s about tackling real-world problems. And embracing and driving change. Our interdisciplinary community consists of optimists who want to connect the dots. We’re educators, students, entrepreneurs, professionals, and activists. We’re open-minded, creative, and curious. We are looking for a Sociologist with Mixed Methods (quantitative and qualitative) expertise to join our growing faculty. This description of the role is deliberately broad as we seek interdisciplinary mixed methods sociologists with intellectual vision and energy to build out the role from within our existing interdisciplinary faculty. You will join a team within the faculty teaching a broad range of qualitative research methods (from social sciences, the humanities and the arts) and will also have a key role in thinking about how to combine quantitative and qualitative methods in teaching and student project work. Your teaching will be across undergraduate, masters and professional development programmes. We welcome outstanding applicants at any stage of their career, who can develop a unique and high-quality offer in these areas. We seek entrepreneurial academics, in the widest sense. The post is for a full-time Assistant/Associate Professor. Salaries are aligned with the wider university sector and may range from approx. £40,000 to £60,000, depending on experience. Responsibilities: - Focussed on creative and impactful teaching/learning – with ambition to create the best interdisciplinary undergraduate, postgraduate and professional learning possible - Interested to work on a real-world, problem-based curriculum with external partners - Experienced in working effectively in teams - Interested in teaching and learning a range social science qualitative research methods and skills - Background in use of mixed methods (qual and quant) for research and some understanding of mixed methods theory - An academic interested to see your discipline (s) in new lights and through different lenses – e.g. in terms of mental models, in frames from external sectors, etc. - Strong interest to work in an interdisciplinary context (there are no departments at LIS) - Proven teaching experience in the relevant areas - but we are also open to considering new talent who can convince us through the extended interview process that they are the right person - Willingness to participate in wider LIS activities including pastoral support, admissions and recruitment

Assistant/ Associate Professor, Sociology and Mixed Methods

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