Lecturer in Development Economics

About us 

The Department of International Development, King’s College London, is a young, innovative and contemporary department, with a focus on uneven development and global capitalism within the regional contexts of Latin America, East Asia, SE Asia, South Asia, the Middle east and Africa. We explore structural transformation in countries and how that leads to uneven development, with attention to processes and policies. Our distinctive global structural understanding of local level processes lends itself to a multi-scalar approach that challenges and expands disciplinary boundaries. The mission of the department is to explore the sources of success as well as understand the major development challenges these countries continue to face. We also have a strong focus on social and economic justice and understanding how change for the better happens, both now and for the future. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team currently working in a wide range of areas including political economy, inequality and poverty, gender rights, climate change and natural resources, international trade, migration, and social. gender and racial justice.   

About the role 

The We are seeking a candidate who has an excellent record of teaching and administration, supported by an outstanding early career profile of publications. They will have broad knowledge of international development, and some regional expertise. They should be able to teach the first-year undergraduate module Economic Analysis of Emerging Economies, the third-year module Decolonising economics, and the quantitative component of the postgraduate online methods course, and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students. Our successful candidate will be methodologically proficient within their discipline and demonstrate evidence of high-quality relevant research and teaching in international development.

Key responsibilities include:

• To take a role in the planning, organisation and delivery of teaching activities (both on-campus and online) within the Department in accordance with established practice.
• To undertake the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research and advising of personal tutees.
• To undertake and publish high-quality research consistent with the Department’s research strategy, and to contribute to impact, knowledge exchange and postdoctoral research training.
• To participate fully in the design, assessment and examination processes in respect to International Development teaching in the Department of International Development.
• To engage in professional development as appropriate to update skills, and to support teaching excellence.
• To accept academic responsibility within the Department, involving departmental administrative responsibilities where appropriate.

This post will be responsible to the Head of the Department of International Development. This is a full-time role, and you will be offered a 10 month fixed-term contract, starting 1st January 2026.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks & responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• PhD qualified in development studies, international development, development economics, or cognate disciplines. 
• Evidence through publications of an ability to produce work in their specialist field at an international standard.                      
• Demonstrable ability to design and deliver engaging online and face-to-face teaching addressing social, political and economic development, critical and decolonial approaches to economics, and quantitative methods.                 

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrable commitment to and/or experience of working and teaching in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Interpersonal skills to develop and maintain good working relationships.            

£45,031 to £48,607 per annum including London Weighting Allowance