Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader in Economics Edinburgh - Central Area, Midlothian, United Kin[...]

Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader in Economics
CAHSS, School of Economics
For a Lecturer is UE08 £45,585 - £54,395
For a Reader/ Senior Lecturer is UE09 £57,696- £64,914
Full time 35 hours per week
Open Ended
The Opportunity:
The University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics is seeking to appoint outstanding candidates to faculty positions at the rank of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Economics. Applicants from all fields of Economics are welcome, although we are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in any field of applied economics. In addition, we are especially interested in candidates whose research connects with that of our current faculty in interesting ways.
The successful candidate will engage in research, supervision and teaching of the highest quality, by mentoring junior colleagues and by contributing to eLearning and online teaching initiatives. They will contribute to the leadership and running of the School through executive responsibility for particular areas of work and for participation in decision making and governance.
Informal enquiries about the role may be directed to Professor Jesper Bagger: #####
Your Skills & Attributes For Success:
Have the relevant qualification for this role in Economics.
Have outstanding publications and the ability to make an important contribution to the research activities and intellectual life of the School of Economics.
Have the ability to contribute high quality teaching on the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral training programmes within Economics, including supervision of PhD students.
Be able to show proven experience of academic leadership and management.
Provide evidence of the ability to contribute to the development and implementation of the School’s strategic planning.
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Working With Us:
As a valued member of our team, you can expect an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT+ equality.
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The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
The School of Economics:
The School of Economics sits within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Economics has been studied in Edinburgh for 200 years.
Edinburgh has long been associated with economics. In the eighteenth-century Adam Smith lived and worked in the city. His first lectures to young lawyers in 1748 – 51 were delivered near where the South Bridge now stands. In the last twelve years of his life until his death in 1790 he was a Commissioner of Customs and the salt tax daily working in the Royal Exchange, now part of the City Chambers, and living in Panmure House near Canongate Church where he is buried. In his later years he continued to revise his principal books The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations, and a substantial portion of Smith’s personal library is held by Edinburgh University Library. His friend David Hume, a resident of Edinburgh, noted in his day as a historian and now as a leading empiricist philosopher, wrote much acclaimed essays on economics.
Thomas Bayes, an English Presbyterian and inspirer of the approach to statistical inference which bears his name, came to Edinburgh University in 1719 to study logic and theology for three years. In 1800, Dugald Stewart, professor of moral philosophy, was the first in Britain to give a course of lectures exclusively on political economy. The Edinburgh Review, one of the first of nineteenth century journals to publish articles on economics, was founded in 1802 in a flat on Buccleuch Place along the street from where the School of Economics is currently located. More recently Sir James Mirrlees, joint winner with William Vickery of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Economics, graduated in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh in 1957.
Undergraduate students can choose to study for a single honours degree in Economics or choose from 17 joint honours options.
Students also have the opportunity to study abroad in their third year. Enrolments on undergraduate Economics programmes at Edinburgh are strong, with over 200 in the final year of our single and joint Honours MA programmes and about 900 students taking our first-year courses.
At the postgraduate level, Edinburgh leads the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics, a consortium of eight Scottish Universities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, St Andrews, Stirling and Strathclyde. There are three Masters options: Masters in Economics, Masters in Economics (Econometrics) and Masters in Economics (Finance).
These programmes provide students with a thorough grounding in the latest research methods to prepare them for research at PhD level or as a professional research economist. For further information, see www.sgpe.ac.uk
Our PhD programme has a current yearly intake of six to eight students, a figure that we aim to increase. We offer our students additional coursework in their first (post-MSc) year.
Today, the School of Economics includes 54 academic staff and a team of 29 administrative and technical support staff, as well as visiting Professors and other associates. The academic staff comprises 12 full-time Professors, one of which is the also Vice-Principal for Students, 2 part-time Professors, 1 Reader, 8 Senior Lecturers, 14 Lecturers, 16 Early Career Researchers and 1 Teaching Fellow. The senior professorship is currently held by Professor John Moore who recently received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. Among our faculty are Fellows of the Econometric Society, and recipients of ERC grants.
The School is characterised by its cohesiveness and informal research-led collegiality, with high quality research seminars and workshop programmes running on a weekly basis. The School has special research strength in economic theory, labour economics and applied econometrics in addition to an array of more dispersed expertise. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), the School of Economics was placed 1st in Scotland and 14th in the UK by overall rating. In terms of the proportion of publications that are classified as world-leading, the School is ranked 1st in Scotland and 9th in the UK. Ranked by research environment (which includes PhD completions and grant income), the School is 1st in Scotland and joint 3rd (with 4 other Schools/Department of Economics at other Universities) in the UK.
The School was awarded an ESRC Large Grant on the Credit and Labour Market Foundations of the Macroeconomy in 2015. The project, led by Professors Moore, Elsby and Thomas, which ended in 2022, brought together researchers from Edinburgh, Europe and the United States, with the aim of re-examining the foundations of macroeconomics, in particular of labour and credit markets.
The University of Edinburgh:
For more than four centuries, our people and their achievements have rewritten history time and again. They’ve explored space, revolutionised surgery, published era-defining books, paved the way for life-saving medical breakthroughs and introduced to the world many inventions, discoveries and ideas from penicillin to Dolly the sheep. We have believed that anything is possible, we still do.
The latest Research Excellence Framework highlighted our place at the forefront of international research. This adds to our international reputation for the quality of our teaching and our student experience excellence. The University of Edinburgh is proud of its success with online teaching initiatives, with 2550 students currently studying its online distance learning postgraduate programmes, and a total to date of more than 2 million enrolments for Edinburgh MOOCs.
As a member of staff, you will be part of one of the world's leading universities, with 20 Schools spread over 3 Colleges that offer more than 1600 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate programmes to over 41,000 students each year. Professional services are critical to this success as well as our world-class teaching, research and student facilities. In fact, we are one of the top employers in Edinburgh, with over 14,500 people spread across a wide range of academic and supporting roles.
As a world-changing, world-leading university, we offer an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent, develop and reward success and integrate academic, professional and personal career goals, as well as give your career the benefit of a great and distinguished reputation.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT+ equality. The University has a range of initiatives to support a family friendly working environment, including flexible working and childcare vouchers. See our University Initiatives website for further information.
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