Professor / Associate Professor (Economic History)

**Listing reference**: ukzn_000651

**Listing status**: Online

**Position summary**

**Industry**:Education & Training

**Job category**:University and Academy

**Location**:Durban

**Contract**:Permanent

**Remuneration**:Market Related

**EE position**:Yes

**Introduction**
- The University of KwaZulu-Natal is one of the top Universities in South Africa and in the top 500 Universities globally. The School of Social Sciences is well established with a strong research profile and has a large number of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Discipline of Development’s Economic History programme has an established reputation, nationally, and it has a vibrant postgraduate research programme.

**Job description**
- The School of Social Science seeks to appoint someone at Full professor, or Associate Professor level in the discipline of Development Studies, who has a specialisation in Economic History.
- The incumbent must be able to and assist in supervising and mentoring students at Honours, Masters and PhD levels; contribute to the academic functions within the discipline of community development; and actively participate in community engagement projects and in growing the academic standing of the discipline.

The incumbent will report to the Academic Leader: Development Studies

**Minimum requirements**

**Professor**
- A PhD degree in Economic History, Development Studies, Public Administration or any cognate discipline;
- At least 9 years of working and relevant experience in either teaching, research, or industry
- Excellent and sustained publication of independent research in quality scientific journals, appropriate for the level
- Excellent and sustained track record of successful attraction of external research grants
- Excellent and sustained track record of successful supervision of postgraduate students at Masters and PhD level, appropriate for the level.
- Evidence of national and international recognition in a research area within the discipline.
- Evidence of strong and sustained academic leadership within the Department / School/ College/ University, which includes mentorship and coaching

**Associate Professor**
- A PhD degree in Economic History, Development Studies, Public Administration or any cognate discipline.
- At least 6 years of working and relevant experience in either teaching, research, or industry
- Evidence of current and sustained publication of independent research in quality scientific journals, appropriate for the level
- Evidence of sustained and successful attraction of external research grants
- A sustained track record of successful supervision of postgraduate students at Masters and PhD level, appropriate for the level.
- Evidence of national and international recognition in a research area within the discipline.
- Evidence of strong and sustained academic leadership within the Department / School/ College/ University, which includes mentorship and coaching

The School and the University reserve the right not to appoint and/or stop the recruitment process at any stage.

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