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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Ref:3438
(10 September 2009)
The Centre for Medical Humanities and the Department of Geography seek to appoint a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Social Science for Medical Humanities from 1st January 2010 or as soon as possible thereafter. S/he will be based for the first four years in the Centre for Medical Humanities, a unique research centre funded by The Wellcome Trust at Durham University, in a predominantly research post. Thereafter, the successful candidate will have a permanent position with the normal balance of research, teaching and administration in the Department of Geography. The successful candidate will show a good theoretical and practical understanding of one or more of the following topics relating to the interactions of the arts and humanities with health, medical practice and wellbeing: the place of creativity in human flourishing and wellbeing; practices and policies that aim to promote wellbeing and health through arts based practices relations between flourishing, embodiment, wellbeing and health relations between the sciences, the arts and medical practice explorations of public engagement within medicine, arts and other forms of social policy with a view to enhancing wellbeing and health Salary: From £29,704 - £52,086 per annum Closing Date: 30th September 2009