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Open Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Information and Library Studies
Ref: 004094
Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer (Assistant Professor) within the UCD School of Information and Library Studies. An appointment will be offered on either a 5-year or permanent basis.
The appointed Lecturer will teach within the School and contribute significantly to the quality expansion of research in one or more of the following areas:
Metadata, information technology design and evaluation, computer-supported cooperative work, health science informatics, human information behavior, management in information organizations, information retrieval, digital libraries, information architecture, classification, information literacy, and/or related topics regarding the interplay of people, information, technology and social structures.
S/he will also be required to participate effectively in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs and to contribute to the academic life of the School, College and University.
UCD (University College Dublin) is a leading European research-intensive university. Over 23,000 students and academics explore and learn in the creative and collegial environment of UCD’s Belfield 320 acre campus, which is within a short distance of Dublin’s city centre.
UCD leads
as the university of first choice for Irish school-leavers, and has the largest number of master's and PhD students in Ireland. The University is also home to over 3,500 international
students from over 100 countries.
The UCD faculty is increasingly international – a rich diversity of backgrounds
to complement UCD’s diversity of academic disciplines. UCD runs overseas
programs in partnership with leading international universities and education
providers in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, and Sri Lanka.
The position of Lecturer is equivalent to the position of Assistant Professor at U.S. universities.
More detailed information about the position can be found at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/
Salary: €35,335 - €81,452 p.a.
Appointment on scale will be made commensurate with qualification and experience.
Closing date: 23:30hrs on Thursday 30th September 2010
Informal enquiries can be sent to the Head
of School, Prof. Diane H. Sonnenwald,
email: [log in to unmask], phone: +35317167799.
NOTE: Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. UCD is unable to accept late applications.
All current recruitment which is taking place within UCD is dependent on non-Exchequer, external and self-funding sources of finance.