Professors/Readers in the Engaged Humanities (EXPIRED)

Reference Number:  1672

Location:  Durham City

Grade:  Grade 9/10

Position Type:  Full Time

Contract Type:  Permanent

Closing Date:  8 June 2012

There are several leading examples at Durham of trans-disciplinary engagement where research in the humanities has the potential to impact upon and transform practice in the social sciences and sciences. 

We seek to appoint three Professors/Readers to build additional critical mass in these critical areas, linked directly with the work of either the Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH) or Narratives, Nature & Society (NNS) and the wider intellectual agenda. Appointees can be in any relevant Department (English, History, Theology, Modern Language and Cultures, Classics or Philosophy)

Professors/Readers in Medical Humanities: this has been an area of increasing prominence with Durham playing a leading role nationally and internationally through the CMH. The centre has significant funding through the Wellcome Trust. As an example of these activities, the CMH has recently undertaken a major appraisal of historical, theological, literary, social and psychological approaches to voice hearing. Another example, enabled by the University's interdisciplinary Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing, is "Belief, Health and Wellbeing". A strategic area of interest is that of the "critical medical humanities" (e.g critical neuroscience, critical public health).

Professors/Readers in Narratives, Nature and Society (NNS) employs philosophical, anthropological, social and theological methods to understand and inform rhetorics and policy around science and technology. Internationally leading studies of social narratives and understanding of nanotechnology, geo-engineering and genetic modification furnish exemplars.