"Assistant Professor in Politics"

Assistant Professor in Politics

University of Sussex

Location:	Falmer
Salary:	£38,784 to £46,049 per annum, pro rata if part time, Grade 7
Hours:	Part Time
Contract Type:	Fixed-Term/Contract

Placed On:	28th January 2026
Closes:	22nd February 2026
Job Ref:	42234

About the role

The School of Law, Politics and Sociology seeks an enthusiastic and committed Associate Professor in Politics to join our department on a fixed-term basis for six months. This role is to provide teaching and administrative support during a period of research leave within the team. This role sits on the Education and Scholarship pathway.

The successful candidate will contribute to undergraduate teaching, assessment, and student support. They will convene The Far Right and Politics of Immigration and deliver lectures and seminars on modules such as Feminism and the Politics of Gender and The Neoliberal Age? Interpreting Modern Britain, as well as other core modules.

About you

You will have a PhD in Politics or a related discipline. You will have experience teaching at a university level. Ideally, you will have research expertise in areas related to the modules required to be taught. This could include, but is not limited to, far right parties, immigration, gender politics, and British politics. You should have excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within an academic team.

About our Division

Politics is a well-established and successful research-led department with a record of excellence in research assessment exercises and in teaching. The department is home to 20 faculty and around 600 students. We have a thriving Masters in Corruption and Governance course which recruits between 15-20 students per year, together an online distance learning version of the degree. The department is home to the internationally renowned Sussex European Institute and the Centre for the Study of Corruption, and also has research strengths in British politics, party politics, citizenship and migration, and various phenomena that challenge the existing political order such as populism, anti-politics and protest politics. In the most recent REF, 96% of the department’s outputs were regarded as either world-leading or internationally excellent and the department’s GPA rose from 2.90 in 2014 to 3.38 in 2021. We performed in the most recent NSS improving our scores in almost every category with 85% of respondents evaluating our teaching positively.

Please find further information regarding the School of Law, Politics and Sociology on our website.

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

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Further Key Information

Please contact Jonathan Moss (j.moss@sussex.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.