The Brazil Institute at King’s College London seeks to recruit a Lecturer. This will be a full-time appointment within the Institute, an interdisciplinary unit of the College dedicated to teaching and research on Brazil. It sits alongside other global institutes in the College; these are the China, India, Russia, North American Studies, and International Development Institutes. The global institutes are developing a common set of programmes and activities, and the appointment will be expected to contribute to these.

The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar who can strengthen the Brazil Institute’s research capacity in relation to one or more of the themes listed below. Applicants are expected to have disciplinary training in any of the social sciences, including economics, and a publication list that includes both monographs and peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals.

• The Brazilian economy: This includes the functioning of markets, macroeconomic policy, trade, investment, finance, industrial policy, fiscal policy, or the changing role of Brazil in the global economy.

• Brazil and the emerging global order: This includes positions and activities of the Brazilian state within institutions of regional or global governance, or the changing nature of Brazil’s connections with the rest of the world, outside the fields of security and defence.

• Energy and the environment in Brazil: This includes energy policy broadly defined, including energy security and the shift from non-renewable to renewable forms of energy, as well as environmental policy, including the management of forests, water, and other natural resources and the prevention or mitigation of environmental problems.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 7 June 2013. 

For further details visit  www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs