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For more information about this position vacancy at the Scott Polar Research

Institute please visit the website at: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/lect.htm

Dear Polar colleagues,

A University Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer is to be appointed at the Scott
Polar Research Institute with the Department of Geography, University of
Cambridge. This is a post in Human Geography.

If you yourself are interested in this post, or know of someone who might
be, please study the announcement on the SPRI website at
http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/lect.htm

VACANCY
University Lectureship/Assistant Lectureship

Applications are invited for a University Lectureship/Assistant Lectureship,
to be filled from 1 March 2000 (or as soon as possible thereafter) in the
Department of Geography, associated with the Scott Polar Research Institute.

Applicants with interests in issues of environment and development in polar
regions - the geography, economics, social implications, politics or
policies of resource exploitation and management in the Arctic and/or the
Antarctic, will be particularly welcome.

The successful applicant will be expected to contribute a high level of
research activity; to teach at undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D. levels; and
to develop the M. Phil. in Polar Studies and graduate training in
particular. Initial appointment will be on the University Lecturer scale,
which ranges from £20,811 to £32,095, or the University Assistant Lecturer
scale (£17,238 to £22,579).

Further particulars may be viewed here, or obtained from Professor K.S.
Richards, Director, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge,
Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER, to whom applications (8 copies) should
also be sent, by 26 November 1999. The University of Cambridge is an equal
opportunities employer.