Job description
The History and Philosophy of Science group of the Freudenthal Institute is going to develop multidisciplinary Bachelor's and Master's courses in the history and philosophy of the climate and environmental sciences. We want to stimulate students to reflect on the institutional, social and political contexts in which atmospheric chemists, paleoclimatologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, ecologists, and meteorologists work, both in the past and today. This will help students engage with these issues in a meaningful way, whether within academia or outside.

The new courses will draw students from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The Bachelor's course is intended for all students of the Science and Geoscience faculties, as an elective or part of a broader minor. The Master's course will be part of the Master's History and Philosophy of Science, but it will also be open for students of other programmes.

The courses themselves will also be multidisciplinary, drawing on natural science and data science as well as the social sciences, ethnoscience, history, philosophy, and digital humanities. They will include historical and philosophical analysis of climate change, field science, expeditions, weather stations, inter-and transdisciplinarity, scientific instruments, big datasets, the earth system sciences, the nature of the atmosphere, oceans, and ice shields, and the Anthropocene.

Qualifications
We are looking for a collaborative colleague who can:

- take the lead in developing these courses, together with a team of historians and philosophers of science from the Freudenthal Institute and the Descartes Centre;
- teach these courses the first time;
- reach out to lecturers and students in other departments (especially Geosciences);
- possibly assist with other HPS teaching (in consultation);
conduct your own research in relation to the themes of the courses.

As our ideal candidate you:

- have a PhD (or are about to finish one) in history and philosophy of science or a related field;
- have demonstrable academic teaching experience;
- have a strong commitment towards high quality teaching;
- have a multidisciplinary outlook and are able to connect natural science with the humanities;
- are willing to play an active role in local and (inter)national scientific and/or societal communities;
- have ideas about organising conferences, workshops, and network meetings;
- have excellent communication skills in English.

Due to the changing nature of the academic landscape in the (post-)COVID-19 pandemic, we expect you to develop resilient forms of teaching, including remote-only education and hybrid forms of offline and online education. The institute’s Teaching and Learning Lab can provide all the support needed for developing innovative forms of hybrid education.

The application deadline is 23 June 2021.

Offer
- a position (0.7 - 0.8 FTE) for two years;
- a full-time gross salary ranging from €2,790 to €4,402 in scale 10 (Lecturer 4);
- benefits including 8% holiday bonus and 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
- a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions external link based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (cao).

For further information and for the application form, see here:

https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/lecturer-for-the-development-of-courses-in-the-history-and-philosophy-of-the-climate-sciences-07-08