University Teaching in an English Castle
Part-time Lecturers Wanted
The
International
Study Centre at Herstmonceux
Castle
is owned and operated by Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.
The ISC offers first-year and upper-year university programmes in the
humanities and social sciences and professional programmes in commerce and law,
to students from Canada,
US, Mexico,
Asia, Europe.
Programmes at the ISC are characterised by small class sizes, a residential
environment leading to close interaction between students and faculty, emphasis
on the British, European, and international contexts, and systematic integration
of field studies into the fabric of courses.
The
ISC is currently preparing staffing lists for the following terms: Fall 2007
(September to December), Winter 2008 (January to April). NB An advertisement
for Spring and Summer 2008 will appear in October.
Courses
for which staffing is required include offerings in: Astronomy, British
Studies, Commerce, Drama, Economics, English, Film, French, Geography, German,
History, Intercultural Studies, International Studies, Mathematics, Music,
Political Studies, Psychology, Religious Studies, Spanish, Effective
Writing.
Instructors
with excellent university-level teaching records, demonstrated research
achievements or potential, and PhD in hand or near completion are invited to
request, by e-mail, an application form and information sheet from: Mrs. J
Ritchie - E-mail: j_ritchie@isc.queensu.ac.uk Applicants should
state the area(s) in which they wish to teach, and should indicate whether they
are currently eligible to work in the United Kingdom. The deadline
for receipt of applications is 5th March 2007.
Upper-Year
courses for the Fall and Winter terms as well as the First–Year program for
2007/08 are posted at the following links:
Fall Term
2007: http://www.queensu.ca/ipo/courses/0708/UYF07.htm
Winter Term 2008: http://www.queensu.ca/ipo/courses/0708/UYW08.htm
First-Year Program (FW 0708):
http://www.queensu.ca/ipo/courses/0708/FYP0708.htm
I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician.
I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.