Houser Career Development Fellowship in Geography

Christ Church is seeking to appoint a full time Career Development Fellow in Geography for five years from 1st October 2024. The Fellowship will be awarded to a candidate of exceptional academic merit to undertake research in Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment. The research focus of this Fellowship will relate to climate change mitigation or adaptation.

This Career Development Fellowship is intended for an early-career scholar who wishes to further their experience of undergraduate teaching in geography alongside their research. The Governing Body has a policy of fostering academics’ career-development by means of Career Development Fellowships to achieve a flow-through of appointments so that this policy can, as circumstances permit, be continued into the future for other academics’ career-development, it is an essential feature of this Fellowship that it is time-limited and cannot be renewed. Therefore, the appointment carries with it no expectation of permanent employment at Christ Church. Applicants may not have previously held a comparable career development appointment at Oxford or another university. The Fellowship is a College appointment and does not carry appointment to any post within the University. However, it is expected that the person appointed will be made a member of the School of Geography and the Environment. The person appointed will not be a member of the Governing Body of Christ Church.

For more information, including how to apply, please see the attached Further Particulars.