THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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Job Title:Teaching Associate in Classical Studies (fixed-term)

School/Department:School of Humanities – Department of Classics

Salary:£28,695 - £37,394 per annum(pro rata), depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

Job Family and Level:Research and Teaching Level 4 (Teaching Focus)

Contract Status:This post is available from 1 September 2015 and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for 9 months

Hours of Work:Full-time – 36.25 hours per week

Location:Humanities Building, University Park

Reporting to:Head of Department

Purpose of the Role:

This role replaces Dr David Lewis who has been awarded a fellowship. The primary duties of the person appointed will be to teach, assess, and administer modules in ancient languages and other areas according to area of expertise, at undergraduate and postgraduate level. In particular, the candidate must be prepared to:

Main Responsibilities
1. / Design, teach, administer and assess (or contribute to the design, teaching, administration, and assessment of) modules in classical studies, especially language modules, for undergraduate students
2. / Contribute to the lectures, seminar teaching and assessment of different team-taught modules, such as the second-year modules ‘Studying Classical Scholarship’, ‘Extended Source Study’ and ‘Independent Second-Year Project’
3. / Supervise a number of final-year undergraduate dissertations and MA dissertations
4. / Provide pastoral support for the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate students
5. / Contribute to the effective management and administration of the Department by performing duties allocated by the Head of Department. The most likely roles are either teaching quality or web officer.
6. / Contribute to organising resources and effective decision making in support of teaching. Maintain records and materials in support of teaching activities.
7. / Develop and continually update knowledge and understanding in field or specialism and to seek ways of improving own performance by reflecting on pedagogical teaching design, delivery and obtaining and analysing feedback in order to develop own teaching and learning skills.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Essential / Desirable
Qualifications/ Education /
  • A PhD successfully completed or near completionor the equivalent in professional qualifications and experience
  • Specialism in any aspect of ancient Greek or Roman culture
/
  • A PGCHE or equivalent qualification

Skills/Training /
  • Ability to teach Classical studies effectively at all levels in a higher education context
  • Ability to contribute to the teaching and assessment of ancient Greek and/or Latin language at Beginners, and Intermediate levels
  • Ability to contribute to the lectures, seminar teaching and assessment of different team-taught modules, such as the second-year modules ‘Studying Classical Scholarship’, ‘Extended Source Study’ and ‘Independent Second-Year Project’
  • Ability to design modules in Classical Studies and/or Ancient History
  • Ability to supervise final-year undergraduate dissertations and MA dissertations in visual culture
  • Ability to contribute effectively to departmental administration
  • Strong commitment to the Department, especially in terms of collegial approach and presence
  • Ability to work in a team and independently
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to relate to students in terms of both teaching and pastoral care
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  • Ability to contribute to the teaching and assessment of ancient Greek and/or Latin language at Advanced level

Experience /
  • Previous teaching experience at Undergraduate level
/
  • Lecturing experience

Decision Making

i)Taken independently by the role holder;

  • Planning teaching programme and direction
  • Making individual decisions about design and conduct of modules convened
  • Teaching and guidance of students
  • Setting and marking of assignments and exam papers

ii)Taken in collaboration with others;

  • Decisions about design and administration of team-taught modules
  • Aspects of curriculum development
  • Ensure academic and administrative quality of courses.

iii)Referred to the appropriate line manager by the role holder;

  • Complex pastoral issues
  • Disciplinary/grievance procedures

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS
The Department of Classics is located on the first floor of the Humanities Building (opened in 2011), amid the beautiful surroundings of the main University Park campus. Members of staff have individual offices, equipped with their own PC linked to the University network. The Department currently comprises fifteen members, whose research interests cover a wide range of specialisms in Greek and Roman history, literature and visual culture.
The Departments of Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Music, Philosophy, and Theology and Religious Studies form the School of Humanities within the Faculty of Arts. The Department enjoys close relations with the other departments in the School and with other schools in the Faculty.
Undergraduate courses are run in Classics, Latin, Ancient History and Classical Civilisation, and joint honours courses in partnership with other Schools and Departments in the University. We have approximately 120 new UG students per year. The Department is committed to providing teaching and student support to the highest standards and has an ongoing programme of evaluation and innovation in this area.
The Department is responsible for taught MA courses in Ancient History, Classical Literature, and the Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity. In the most recent session, the Department had 10 MA students and 21 students working for, or writing up, research degrees, with plans for further increases in postgraduate recruitment.
Research is at the heart of the individual and collective work of the Department. In REF 2014 the Department performed very strongly, with the highest proportion of 4* outputs in the country. The Department has a generous research leave policy that allows members to take one semester’s research leave for an approved project after completing six semesters of full-time research and teaching. The Department supports colleagues in making applications for internal and external research funding, in which there are regular successes.
The Department recently hosted two major externally-funded research projects: Sparta in Comparative Perspective, Ancient to Modern, directed by Professor Hodkinson, and The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, directed by Professor Sommerstein. The Department has its own Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception (CADRE), directed by Dr Lynn Fotheringham. In collaboration with the Archaeology Department, it runs the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS) (directors: Professor Hodkinson and Dr Chrysanthi Gallou [Archaeology]) and the Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS) (directors: Professor Lee and Professor Andrew Poulter [Archaeology]). The Department also collaborates with other schools in running the Institute for the Study of Slavery (director: Professor Hodkinson), which has held a series of biennial interdisciplinary conferences over the past decade. The Digital Humanities Centre is directed by Dr Katharina Lorenz, and Dr Mark Bradley has directed the Urban Culture Network.
The Department holds regular research seminars and also organises one-day colloquia and longer conferences: last year we hosted the Classical Association annual conference; this year there has been an event on Plutarch and Sparta. The Department participates in various international networks including the Flavian Epic Network, Eugesta, and the Classical Reception Studies Network.
The Department also has a strong record on outreach and impact; NoCOut (Nottingham Classics Out and About) sends students into local schools to run classics and Latin clubs; staff members regularly give talks at schools and Classical Association meetings, and work with creative and other non-academic partners.
Further information about the Department is available at
Department of Classics
Mark A. Bradley, BA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab.), Associate Professor in Ancient History
Roman cultural history, especially colour and cleanliness
Carl S. Buckland, BA (Birmingham), PhD (Nott.), Lecturer in Classics
Sexuality, Roman literature, Classical reception
Philip Davies, MA, MSt (Oxon), PhD (Nott.), Teaching Associate in Ancient Greek History
Ancient Greek history especially Sparta, monarchy
Esther Eidinow, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), Lecturer in Ancient Greek History
Ancient Greek culture, especially religion, magic and the supernatural
Patrick J. Finglass, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), Professor of Greek
Greek Literature, especially Stesichorus, Pindar, Sophocles and Euripides
Lynn S. Fotheringham, MA (Edin.), MA (Bryn Mawr), DPhil (Oxon.), Lecturer in Classics
Greek and Latin literature and its reception, especially Cicero
Stephen J. Hodkinson, BA (Manc.), PhD (Cantab.), Professor of Ancient History
Greek history, especially Sparta and its modern reception; slavery
Andreas Kropp, BA (Beirut), MSt, DPhil (Oxon.), Lecturer in Classical Art
Roman material culture, especially the art of the client kingdoms
A. Douglas Lee, BA (Sydney), PhD (Cantab.), Professor of Ancient History
Late Roman history, especially warfare, diplomacy and religious life
Jack Lennon, BA, MA, PhD (Nott.), Teaching Associate
Roman religion, pollution and social history
Katharina Lorenz, DrPhil (Heidelberg), Associate Professor in Classical Studies
Greco-Roman visual culture
Helen V. Lovatt, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab.), Associate Professor in Classics, Head of Department
Greek and Latin literature and their reception, especially Flavian epic and Argonauts
Simon J.V. Malloch, BA (WAust.), PhD (Cantab.), Lecturer in Roman History
Roman imperial history and Latin historiography
Judith M. Mossman, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), Professor of Classics, Head ofthe School of Humanities
Greek literature, especially drama and Plutarch
Richard Rawles, BA, PhD (London), Teaching Associate
Greek Poetry, especially archaic and classical lyric
Betine van Zyl Smit, BA, MA, DLitt (Stell.) Associate Professor
Seneca; the reception of Classical drama
Edmund Stewart, MA (Ed.), MSt (Oxon.), PhD (Nott.), Teaching Associate
Greek literature and culture, especially drama and professionalism
Oliver Thomas, MA, DPhil (Oxon.), Assistant Professor in Classics
Greek literature, especially Homer and hymns; Greek science
Honorary Professor
Peter Meineck, PhD (Nottingham)
Performance, reception and history of ancient drama
Honorary Associate Professor
Konstantinos Vlassopoulos, BA (Athens), MPhil (Crete), PhD (Cantab.)
Greek history, especially Athenian democracy in comparative perspective
Emeriti
John F. Drinkwater, MA (Cantab.), DPhil (Oxon.), FSA, Emeritus Professor
Roman Gaul; Later Roman Empire
J. H. Wolfgang G. Liebeschuetz, BA, PhD (London), FBA, FSA, Emeritus Professor
Roman religion; the transformation of the Roman into the medieval world
John W. Rich, MA, MPhil (Oxon.), PhD (Nottingham), Emeritus Professor
Roman history; war in the ancient world
Alan H. Sommerstein, MA, PhD (Cantab.), Emeritus Professor
Greek drama; Greek law and society; Greek language
Honorary Research Fellows
James Roy, MA (Edin.), MA, PhD (Cantab.)
Greek history and archaeology
John B. Salmon, MA, DPhil (Oxon.)
Greek history and archaeology

Applications

In addition to the application form, candidates should supply a CV, which should include details of their teaching and administrative experience and the areas of their expertise.

Interviews will take place in early to mid-August. On the interview day, all interview candidates will be expected to make a short (15 minute) presentation, on a topic of their choice, aimed at second year undergraduates. The purpose of this is to allow the Department to make a judgement about the candidates’ teaching skills.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Helen Lovatt, Head of Department (). Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

Information about the Department of Classics may be found at