LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Two-year fixed-term early career academic position combining teaching and research in interdisciplinary gender studies at LSE.
Best for:Best for early-career researchers in social sciences or humanities specializing in interdisciplinary gender studies, global development, and feminist theory.
Overview
The Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science invites applications for an LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. This two-year fixed-term role is designed as a career development position to provide early-career academics with teaching experience while advancing their research profile. The successful candidate will contribute to teaching and course convening for MSc-level core courses, including MSc Gender and MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation. Applicants are expected to engage with transnational, decolonial, and intersectional approaches to gender studies.
What you'll do
- Contribute to teaching and course convening for MSc-level core courses in the Department of Gender Studies.
- Deliver lectures, seminars, and other teaching activities for the MSc Gender and MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation degrees.
- Offer additional Master's-level teaching as determined by the Head of Department.
- Develop an independent research record in interdisciplinary gender studies.
- Participate in the academic life and administrative duties of the department.
Requirements
Degree required: Completed or close to completing a PhD in social sciences, humanities, or a related field by the start date
Language: English
Instruction: English
Publications: A developing research record in interdisciplinary gender studies
- Very good knowledge of interdisciplinary gender scholarship and gender theories
- Expertise in critical, feminist, and decolonial approaches to gender, development, and globalisation
- Familiarity with anti-colonial, anti-imperial, and decolonial approaches to Gender Studies
- Knowledge of Black feminist and intersectional epistemologies and methodologies
- Expertise in transnational feminist theories and methodologies
- A developing research record in interdisciplinary gender studies with a substantive focus on international development, political economy, government, politics, social policy, sociology, or critical approaches to AI
- Applicants who have already been employed as an LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply.
Funding & terms
How to apply
Deadline: 2026-11-22 (Europe/London)
Applications must be submitted online through the LSE Jobs portal by the specified closing date. Candidates should ensure they review the job description, person specification, and how-to-apply documents before submitting. Late applications will not be accepted.
- CV
- Cover letter
- How to apply document
- Person specification details
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