Associate Professor in Accounting (Education) (ACC_01)

Updated: about 1 month ago
Location: Durham, ENGLAND

Associate Professor in Accounting (Education) (ACC_01)  (
Job Number:
 24001440)
Department of Accounting
Grade 9: - £57, 696 - £64, 914 per annum
Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time
Contracted Hours per Week: 35
Closing Date
: 18-Aug-2024, 6:59:00 PM
Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement: Not Applicable. 

Working at Durham University  

A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a warm and friendly place to work, a unique and historic setting – Durham is a university like no other.

As one of the UK’s leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career. The University is located within a beautiful historic city, home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and surrounded by stunning countryside. Our talented scholars and researchers from around the world are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.  

We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things in the world. Being a part of Durham is about more than just the success of the University, it’s also about contributing to the success of the city, county and community.

Our University Strategy is built on three pillars of research, education and wider student experience, but also on our keen sense of community and of inspiring others to achieve their potential. 

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We want our University to be a place where people can be free to be themselves, no matter what their identity or background. Together, we celebrate difference, value one another and are each responsible for creating an inclusive community that is respectful and fair for all.

Find out more about the benefits of working at the University and what it is like to live and work in the Durham area on our Why Join Us? - Information Page

Discover more about our total rewards and benefits package here .

Durham University Business School

Dynamic and vibrant, Durham University Business School (DUBS) is one of Durham University's four faculties and is comprised of four research intensive departments: Accounting, Economics, Finance and Management & Marketing. Known for its global reputation, its impact on policy and practice and its strong focus on ethics, responsibility and sustainability, DUBS is a leading European business school with a strong global presence with more than 200 academic and teaching staff. DUBS is supported in its activities by twelve research centres which blend theoretical perspectives and emphasise impact and engagement with practice. The School's student population is around 4,000 across undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes. 

Our vision is to lead business thought and practice to improve global society and well-being. Our associated mission is to create, share and use knowledge to deliver equitable and sustainable futures around the world. We pursue this mission by advancing world changing knowledge and securing global impact through increasingly collaborative research across disciplines and around the world.

DUBS is preparing for a future where disciplines combine and converge, disrupting business models, changing the relationship between economies and societies. Faculty investment targets candidates with transformative perspectives on their disciplines, who are highly connected to the world of practice and who have regard for the ethical, sustainable and responsible impact of their research and teaching. Our focused strategy covers research, education and student engagement, building on multi-disciplinary academic excellence, internationally-rated research and superb student support services. Our research is published in leading international journals, is increasingly funded by a broad mix of bodies, including research, government and commercial organisations. We seek to elevate further the status and influence of our research activity and environment through the support and delivery of influential research publications, building enhanced research capacity through income generation and the proof of economic and social value through documented impact on policy and practice. 

Over the next ten years, DUBS will pursue its mission across three core domains to become a recognised top European business school. It will be supported in this by its three transversal themes of internationalisation; ethics, responsibility and sustainability; and external engagement and impact. 

We have invested heavily in new colleagues over the past three years and continue to invest so that we can publish even more frequently in world leading journals, secure higher levels of funding (including research councils) and develop our impact and engagement further. These ambitions are further supported by appropriate support for conference attendance, pump priming, seminars and research network building activities and incentives for research publication and impact case studies. 

As part of the DUBS's education strategy, our focus is to ensure that our programmes are intellectually leading, transformative and challenging. Further, we wish to ensure that learning allows students to develop as global citizens with a cross-cultural perspective, which fosters connection to worlds of practice and facilitates engagement in the area of ethics, responsibility and sustainability. DUBS continues to support and recognise faculty members in these areas, for example through our mentoring policy and Enhancing Learning and Teaching Awards. 

For more information, please visit the DUBS pages . 

The Department of Accounting

The Department of Accounting at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Associate Professor (Education). The Department is QS ranked 76th worldwide, 13th in the UK. We welcome applications from those with research and education interests in the broad field of accounting and we are particularly eager to hear from applicants who can demonstrate an interest in our three strategic themes of digitalisation, sustainability and public accountability.   

The Department has close links to two research centres. These are the Ethical Finance Accountability and Governance (EFAG) centre which focuses on sustainability and sustainable development goals, and the International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA) which focuses upon public accountability. In addition, the Durham Rutgers Accounting Analytics Network (DRAAN) sits within the Department which focuses on data analytics and artificial intelligence. 

This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent scholarship and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our department pages at Accounting - Durham University Business School .

Associate Professors (Education) at Durham 

Associate Professors (Education) will engage in teaching, innovation and citizenship whilst fully focussing on the key skills to further enhance their careers.  Teaching quality and innovation is critical to ensure a first-class learning environment and curricula for all of our students. You will be supported to develop your high-quality teaching expertise and to lead in teaching innovation and excellence to embed our student experience. 

Associate Professors (Education) will engage in wider citizenship to enhance their own development, support their department and discipline, and contribute to the wider student experience. 

You will be expected to engage in scholarship related to pedagogy, noting that any other independent research (beyond pedagogy) is not part of this post. The appointment will be on the University’s ‘Education Track’ career path, which provides clearly defined opportunities for progression against defined criteria.  

We are confident that our recruitment process allows us to attract and select the best international talent to Durham. We therefore offer a reduced probation period of 1 year for our Associate Professors (Education) and thereafter, subject to satisfactory performance, your position will be confirmed as permanent. 

Applicants must demonstrate teaching excellence in the field of accounting, with the ability to teach our students to an exceptional standard and to fully engage in the services, citizenship and values of the University.  

The University aims to provides a working and teaching environment which is inclusive and welcoming and where everyone is treated fairly with dignity and respect. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate these key principles as part of the assessment process.

Key responsibilities: 

  •       Offer lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, with the opportunity to teach more widely within the Department, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment.
  •      Engagement in pedagogic activity that supports a high quality, academic professional community of practice within the University and beyond, producing scholarly publications, engaging in consultancy with demonstrable high-quality outputs and pursuing external grants to support educational innovation and impact.
  •         Maintain an active membership and engagement with a professional body (e.g. HEA or discipline-specific bodies).
  •         Provide significant programme leadership, managing people and projects to promote excellence in scholarship and educational impact.
  •      Promote and lead ongoing curriculum development, demonstrating innovation in educational practice to enhance the quality of the educational environment in the Department and wider University in support of continuing emphasis on international excellence.
  •         Provide training, mentoring and education to colleagues within the Department and University.
  •         Provide significant contribution to the administrative functioning and collegial environment of the Department and wider University.
  •         To engage fully in and enhance the values of the Department with regard to its commitment to its vibrant and international postgraduate culture.
  •         Carry out other such duties, as specified by the Head of Department.

Durham University is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion 

Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are a key component of the University’s Strategy and a central part of everything we do.  We also live by our Purpose and Values  and our Staff Code of Conduct.   At Durham we actively work towards providing an environment where our staff and students can study, work and live in a community which is supportive and inclusive. It’s important to us that all colleagues undertake activities that are aligned to both our values and commitment to EDI. 

We welcome and encourage applications from those who are currently under-represented in our work force, including people with disabilities and from racially minoritised ethnic groups.

If you have taken a career break or periods of leave that may have impacted on the volume and recency of your research outputs and other activities, such as maternity, adoption or parental leave, you may wish to disclose this in your application. The selection committee will take this into account when evaluating your application.

The University has been awarded the Disability Confident Employer status. If you are a candidate with a disability, we are committed to ensuring fair treatment throughout the recruitment process. We will make adjustments to support the interview process wherever it is reasonable to do so and, where successful, reasonable adjustments will be made to support people within their role. 


Person Specification  

Education 

Candidates will make a significant contribution to the development and delivery of high-quality teaching with demonstrable contribution to the design of an excellent learning environments and curricula that enables students to achieve their potential.  You’ll help us deliver outstanding teaching throughout the year and develop pedagogical innovations alongside a team of truly world class colleagues. Please note the role will include pedagogical duties that may extend into the summer period.

Essential Education Criteria

  • Qualifications - a good first degree and a PhD in Accounting or a related subject.
  • Quality - experience of making a significant contribution to the development and delivery of high-quality teaching (including lectures and tutorials/small group teaching), including some external recognition which may be at a nationally competitive level. Candidates may choose to highlight any peer review of their teaching, module evaluation scores or improvements made to the student experience. 
  • Innovation - evidence of successful development of innovative teaching methods for the design / delivery of high quality teaching at a national level, which may include innovative use of technology for teaching. 
  • Strategic Development - evidence of significant contribution to the creation of nationally excellent learning environments and teaching programmes that enable students to achieve their potential.
  • Scholarship and Educational Impact

    Candidates will have the ability to engage in scholarly activity which contributes to pedagogical practice and understanding within the department.  

     Essential Scholarship Criteria

    1.  Scholarship and Educational Impact – candidates will be expected to demonstrate scholarly activity at a university level that supports a high-quality academic professional community of practice or a professional community of practice including in ways that positively impact on pedagogical practice and education at a university level (and potentially beyond) including development and delivery of teaching enhancement activities or positively impact on a professional community of practice within the practitioners discipline or organisation (and potentially beyond).

    Candidates should evidence a significant contribution to (and recognition by) an academic professional community of practice [or a professional practice/discipline] at a regional level (and potentially beyond) e.g. through high quality scholarly engagement and educational innovation and impact or engagement with professional associations with notable impact.

    The format will depend on the discipline and the candidate’s career to date but evidence of scholarship and educational impact may include some of the following (or similar) activities: 

    a.    Develop, design and lead pedagogic developments relating to learning and teaching to a level externally recognised for excellence;

    b.    Research and engagement in consultancy with demonstrable high-quality outputs which focuses on pedagogy;

    c.     Involvement in education projects which have a significant and demonstrable social and/or economic impact and benefit;

    d.    Success in external grant capture to support educational innovation and scholarly impact;

    e.    Production of scholarly pedagogic publications and disseminating the findings;

    f.      Active external professional engagement eg external member of a programme review committee or an externally invited speaker;

    g.    Work or initiatives which have developed the practitioners professional discipline beyond their own practice;

    h.    Supervising higher degree candidates;

    i.      Presenting at a regional conference (which may be related to teaching); or

    j.      Publishing in a practitioner level journal

    Service, Citizenship and Values

    Active engagement in the administrative and citizenship requirements of the Department. Positive contributions to University values  and to fostering a respectful environment, as well as demonstrating their commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. 

    Essential Service, Citizenship and Values criteria

    1.    Citizenship contribution – Evidence of a demonstrable contribution to the collegial / administrative work and environment of an academic Department and/or related to a relevant discipline. Candidates may choose to highlight any roles and responsibilities held within academic departments [or professional practice] (or beyond), Faculty or University level committees or projects, engagement with mentoring or widening student participation, involvement in equality and diversity initiatives, contributions to departmental programme management and strategic development or membership of significant external bodies.

    2.    Leadership - Evidence of a prior significant contribution to leadership activities which support the functioning of an academic Department, Faculty or University and / or which support the development of a relevant academic discipline or area of professional practice (preferably related to teaching). 

    Candidates may choose to detail any prior leadership roles which they have undertaken and potential examples may include:

    a.    editing an academic or professional publication;

    b.    leading the organisation of a national conference;

    c.     strategic planning in curriculum, assessment or similar with demonstrable impact on the quality of provision;

    d.    creating and developing new relationships with external clients/partners;

    e.    promoting and leading change processes within and/or beyond a department; or

    invited external reviews eg on a programme review panel

    2.    Communication - candidates must have excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage with a range of students and colleagues across a variety of forums.

    Contact Information 

    Department contact for academic-related enquiries 

    Professor Amir Michael Head of the Department of Accounting [email protected]  

    Contact information for technical difficulties when submitting your application 

    If you encounter technical difficulties when using the online application form, we prefer you to send enquiries by email.  Please send your name along with a brief description of the problem you’re experiencing to [email protected]  

    Alternatively, you may call 0191 334 6801 from the UK, or +44 191 334 6801 from outside the UK. This number operates during the hours of 09.00 and 17.00 Monday to Friday, UK time.  We will normally respond within one working day (Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays).  

    How to Apply  

    We prefer to receive applications online.    

    Please note that in submitting your application Durham University will be processing your data. We would ask you to consider the relevant University Privacy Statement Job Applicants/Potential Job Applicants - Durham University  which provides information on the collation, storing and use of data.

    What to Submit 

    All applicants are asked to submit: 

    ·         A CV  

    ·         A covering letter which details your experience, strengths and potential in the requirements set out above; 

    ·         Personal Scholarship plan. 

    ·         Between two and four of your most significant pieces of work/evidence of your pedagogic activity demonstrating scholarship and educational impact since 2021, however work prior to 2021 may be submitted where candidates have had career breaks

    ·         An EDI & values statement – (of no more than 500 words) that outlines work which you have been involved in which demonstrates your commitment to EDI and our values. I.e. Involvement in quality, diversity, and inclusion activities such as mentoring, volunteering, or attending conferences 

    Where possible we request that you provide accessible web links to your publications, which the hiring Department will use to access your work. The application form contains fields in which to enter each of the web links.

    Please note we are unable to access publications behind a paywall. 

    In the event you are unable to provide accessible links to online hosting of your work, publications should be uploaded as PDFs as part of your application in our recruitment system.

    Please ensure that your PDFs are not larger than 5mb . Your work may be read by colleagues from across the Department and evaluated against the current REF criteria.

    All application documents should be uploaded with your name and document type as PDF files.

    We will notify you on the status of your application at various points throughout the selection process, via automated emails from our e-recruitment system.  Please check your spam/junk folder periodically to ensure you receive all emails.  

    Referees 

    You should provide three academic referees they should not (if possible) include your PhD supervisor(s).  The majority should be from a University other than your own (save for early career applicants applying for their first post). 

    References will be requested for candidates who have been shortlisted and will be made available to the panel during the interview process. 

    As part of your application, you will be asked whether you give your consent to your academic references being sought should you be invited to attend an interview. We will only request references where permission has been granted.  

    Next Steps 

    All applications will be considered; our usual practice is for colleagues across the Department to read the submitted work of long-listed candidates.   

    Short-listed candidates will be invited to the University, either virtually or in-person and will have the opportunity to meet key members of the Department.  The assessment for the post will normally include a presentation to staff and students in the Department followed by an interview and we anticipate that the assessments and interviews will take place over two days in or around late August/early September 2024.   

    In the event that you are unable to attend in person on the date offered, it may not be possible to offer you an interview on an alternative date. 

    Applicant Guidance  

    For further guidance on your application please see HERE 



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