Lectureship positions available at Royal Holloway, London, UK

Director of Petroleum Geoscience Studies (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor)

We seek to appoint a new member of academic staff to be the director of our internationally recognized Petroleum Geoscience teaching programs. Depending on experience post Ph.D., the position will be filled at the Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer or Lecturer level in the general field of petroleum-related geoscience. The successful appointee will make a significant contribution to the delivery and development of Petroleum Geoscience teaching and field programmes. The ideal candidate will have previous experience working with or for the hydrocarbon industry, including use of relevant software and techniques.  The appointee will  join a strong research and teaching  team in a leading UK Earth Science department. She or he will be able to work with one or more of our research groups in continental margin processes, regional petroleum system analysis and numerical modelling of depositional systems, fault dynamics (FDRG), SE Asia Research (SEARG), as well as develop her or his own funded research programme. Suitable areas of research interest are all areas of petroleum geoscience, including seismic processing and seismic interpretation, structural analysis of sedimentary basins, and reservoir geoscience.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences

We seek to appoint a new member of academic staff at the Senior Lecturer or Lecturer level in potentially any area of Earth Science. The successful appointee will join a strong research and teaching team in a leading UK Earth Science department.  We anticipate that the successful appointee will be able to work with one or more of our active research groups in continental margin processes, geomodelling, global tectonics, geochemistry, volcanology/petrology, atmospheric science, or paleoclimate sciences, as well as develop her or his own funded research programme. It is expected that the appointee will make a significant contribution to the delivery and development of our undergraduate teaching and field programme and/or our internationally recognised Petroleum Geoscience teaching programmes.

Both are full time and permanent posts, available from 1st September 2013, however we welcome applications for part-time hours or job shares.
Professorial salary is in the range £59,072 to £109,134 per annum inclusive of London Allowance,  dependent on assessment through the College Professorial Pay Banding Scheme. Senior Lecturer/Reader salary in the range of £48,075 to £55,367 per annum inclusive of London Allowance.  Lecturer salary in the range of £39,516 to £46,741 per annum inclusive of London

For an informal discussion about either post, please contact Head of Department, Professor Jason Morgan on Jason.Morgan@rhul.ac.uk or +44 (0)1784 443606.

For full details and to apply please visit  https://rhul.engageats.co.uk. The RHUL Recruitment Team can be contacted with queries by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk or via telephone on: +44 (0)1784 41 4241.

Closing Date:  Midnight, Sunday 30th June 2013

Interviews are expected to be held in mid-July 2013