Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellowship in Music 2020, University of Oxford, UK

Lincoln College invites applications for a three-year, non-renewable, Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Music, available from 1 September 2020, or as soon as possible thereafter, until 31 August 2023. This post is intended to provide a career development opportunity for a scholar in the early stages of an academic career. Applicants should have recently obtained a doctorate in an appropriate area, or will have submitted their doctoral thesis for examination by 1 September 2020. He or she will have a developing public profile within their field of scholarship, as evidenced by publications and/or performances. Applicants should have been awarded a higher degree (DPhil or PhD) no more than three years prior to 1 September 2020; exceptions can be made for candidates whose postdoctoral career has been interrupted by, for example, childbirth, caring commitments, illness or compulsory military service; this should be fully explained in the letter of application. Applicants should not previously have held a similar early-career research fellowship.

The Fellow will be expected to undertake advanced research in any field of music. He or she will be required to provide tutorial teaching or small group teaching for up to three hours per week, averaged across the three 8-week terms of the academic year and to act as advisor to a limited number of graduate students in the subject. He or she will also be expected to take an active role in the musical life of the College, working particularly with the Chapel Choir and with the Organ and Choral Scholars.

Salary and allowances: £30,046 in year 1, rising by annual increments to £31,866 in year 3; full Common Room rights; hospitality credit; access to the College Research and Equipment Funds; membership of the USS pension scheme.

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