Further Particulars
This document includes information about the role for which you are applying and the
information you will need to provide with the application.
1. Role details
Vacancy reference:
8772
Job title:
Lecturer in Economics of Innovation and International
Development
Reports to:
Head of Economics Department
Salary:
£37,382 - £38,522 pro rata per annum, according to
qualifications and experience
Terms and conditions:
Academic Staff
Grade:
AC3
Duration of post:
Temporary 24 months
Working hours:
18.5 hours per week (0.5 FTE)
Location:
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes
Closing date:
12 Noon Thursday 28 February 2013
Type of application form accepted:
Long version
Number of referees required:
2
Unit recruitment contact:
The Recruitment Co-ordinator 01908 654483, email
[email protected]
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2. Summary of duties
The Post
This is a part time two year academic post aimed at strengthening research within Economics
in the field of innovation and international development. The duties of the post holder will be:
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To contribute to economic research in innovation and international development within
the Economics Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, including independent
research, publication, and research collaboration within the inter-Faculty Innovation,
Knowledge and Development research centre;
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To bring to research initiatives and collaborations expertise in African industrial
development and innovation, including involvement and standing within established
policy and research networks in Africa;
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To contribute actively to new research funding initiatives in the innovation and
development field;
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To undertake economics teaching within Economics Department undergraduate
modules.
It is expected that the post-holder will be eligible for submission to the REF Unit of Assessment
in Anthropology and Development Studies. The division of the post-holder’s time between
teaching and research is expected to be roughly 50/50.
3. Person specification
Essential Characteristics (it will be essential for the successful candidate to be able to
demonstrate evidence of the following):
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A PhD or equivalent in Economics, Industrial Economics, Economics of Innovation,
International Economics or a related field;
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Research experience in the field of innovation and international development;
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Active involvement in research and policy networks in African science, technology and
innovation
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Evidence of capacity to raise research funding and to publish at an international level,
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An established record of research excellence that complements or extends existing
strengths in the department together with the required number of outputs of sufficient
quality for inclusion in REF 2014.
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Teaching experience in Economics
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Evidence of capacity to write effectively to deadlines
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A commitment to equal opportunities policies and practices.
Desirable Characteristics (additionally, it will be desirable for the successful candidate
to be able to demonstrate evidence of the following):

Experience of private sector research funding and networks
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Evidence of ability to work as part of a team.
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4. Role specific requirements e.g. Shift working
N/A
5. About the unit/department
The Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences is one of seven faculties and schools the others are: Faculties
of Arts; Business and Law; Education and Language; Health and Social Care; Mathematics,
Computing & Technology, MCT; Science. There is also an Institute of Educational Technology
and a Knowledge Media Institute.
The Faculty of Social Sciences encompasses six departments: Economics, Geography,
Politics and International Studies, Psychology, Social Policy and Criminology, and Sociology.
Faculty central academic staff consists of around 100 staff based at Walton Hall who have the
prime responsibility for research, module production and curriculum planning (supported by
project officers, curriculum managers, research assistants, administrators, secretarial and
clerical staff, and technicians). A further 30 regional academics act as staff tutors and are
involved in the recruitment, monitoring and support of tutorial staff from bases in ten English
regions, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, as well as contributing to the module production,
curriculum planning and research.
The Faculty plays major roles in several research centres, including the International Centre
for Comparative Criminological Research, The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and
Governance, OpenSpace, and the Innovation, Knowledge and Development research centre.
The Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG)
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/ccig/index.html
The International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR)
http://www.open.ac.uk/icccr/ .
OpenSpace http://www8.open.ac.uk/researchcentres/osrc/
Innovation, Knowledge and Development research centre (IKD) www.open.ac.uk/ikd
The Faculty also hosts, jointly with the University of Manchester, the ESRC Centre for
Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). See: http://www.CRESC.ac.uk/ Members of
the Faculty are also members of the ESRC INNOGEN centre, hosted jointly with Edinburgh
University http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/innogen/
The Faculty made two main submissions in the 2008 RAE in Sociology and Geography, both of
which were ranked as having 55% of research outputs at world class (4*) or internationally
excellent (3*). We also made a significant contribution to the cross-faculty submission in
Development Studies where 45% were ranked as 4* or 3*. Details of these submissions are
available on the HEFCE website: http://submissions.rae.ac.uk/submissions/ We are working
to build on this success in future REF submissions.
The vigorous intellectual life in the Faculty is fostered by shared research interests and
collaborative teaching. The Departments work together and with other Faculties to produce a
range of modular courses. The Faculty offers undergraduate and postgraduate distance
teaching programmes and research degrees and attracts students from a wide range of
educational and social backgrounds. Full-time research students are based on campus.
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At undergraduate level OU students may compose their degree profile by choosing courses
from within and across all Faculties - or they may follow a recommended choice of study
leading to a number of named degrees or undergraduate diplomas.
More information about the work of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the range of University
research programmes can be found by visiting the following sites:
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/
http://www.open.ac.uk/research/
Economics Staff in the Faculty of Social Sciences
The current academic members of the Economics Department, and their research interests,
are:
Professor Paul Anand, Professor of Economics and Research Associate Oxford University,
Foundations of Economic Theory, Behavioural Economics, Welfare Economics Capabilities
and Happiness, Applied Econometrics, Health Economics, Policy and Economics Knowledge
Transfer in the OECD.
Dr George Callaghan, Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor: labour economics.
Mr Ian Fribbance, Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean: economics and public policy issues,
particularly the economics of transport; taxation economics, and European monetary
integration.
Dr Jerome De Henau, Lecturer: household economics, personal finance and econometrics.
Dr Martin Higginson, Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor: economics of governance; economics
and social policy.
Ms Jonquil Lowe, Lecturer: financial capability; consumer interface with the tax system;
pension systems; retail financial regulation in the UK
Professor Susan Himmelweit, Professor of Economics: feminist economics, economics of
the household; models of caring labour and gender analysis of the tax/benefit system.
Professor Maureen Mackintosh, Professor of Economics: economics of public service
organisation and management; currently working on health care reform and regulation in Africa
Dr Stuart Parris Senior Lecturer : economics of industry and innovation
Dr Rajiv Prabahkar, Lecturer: personal finance, financial education and inequality
Ms Cristina Santos, Lecturer: household economics, labour economics, development
economics, econometrics
Mr Alan Shipman, Lecturer: personal finance, economics and sociology.
Dr Roberto Simonetti, Senior Lecturer and Head of Department: economics of technical
change, economic growth and evolutionary economics, Intellectual property and innovation
Dr Andrew Trigg, Senior Lecturer: political economy of Marx, Keynes and Kalecki; economics
and sociology of consumption.
Recent research students include:
Dermot Coates, Housing, Capabilities and Welfare
Pelin Demirel, Firm Dynamics and Differential Knowledge
Graham Hunter, Econometrics of Happiness and Capabilities
Martin Higginson, Impact of Primary Trusts on Health Equity
William Moore, Innovation and Productivity in US Automobile Industry
Ian Wright, Computational Approach to Economic Value
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Further information about staff and their research interests is available on the Social Science
Faculty website:
http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/about-the-faculty/departments/economics/our-staff.php
A repository of research publications and other research outputs of all Open University staff
can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online:
http://oro.open.ac.uk/
Equipment and Facilities: centrally based staff have offices at Walton Hall and every staff
member has personal access to computing facilities (and the necessary training), is connected
through e-mail and servers to the University network and supported by the University’s
Computing Service.
Teaching:
Study materials are a crucial learning resource in OU teaching. Learning is predominantly
structured around printed materials and augmented by a varied and often rich range of multimedia resources. In addition to the structured textbooks and support material, there are also
web-based materials, CD-Roms, DVDs and audio-CDs, resource files and on-line Open
Library services.
At the heart of the processes of module production is the Module Team, comprising a Module
Team Chair, several members of academic staff, including one or more Staff Tutors and,
where relevant, members of other Departments, and a Curriculum Manager. For all
undergraduate modules and most postgraduate almost all study material is purpose-written
and originated by the Module Team. Almost all the ‘main text’ material of modules in the social
sciences is co-published in collaboration with a commercial publisher, requiring a standard of
writing and presentation that is appropriate to a public and wider academic readership as well
as to OU students. Module Teams and the Learning and Teaching Solutions unit nonetheless
retain full editorial control over content, teaching and design.
The Economics Department has a responsibility for its own modules and also contributes to
interdisciplinary modules within the Faculty. The undergraduate modules relevant to the
Economics Department include:
DD101
DB123
DB234
DD202
DD309
Introducing the social sciences
You and Your Money (Economics of Personal Finance)
Personal investment in an uncertain world (Economics of Personal Investment
and Financial Planning)
Economics and Economic Change (Introductory Micro and Macro Economics)
Micro-economics (Intermediate Applied Micro-Economic Theory)
A new module DD209, Running the Economy, is currently being produced to replace DD202 in
October 2013.
Existing modules contribute to a range of awards including the following:
BSc Hons Economics with Mathematical Sciences
BA Hons Politics, Philosophy and Economics
BA Hons Combined Social Sciences (Economics)
BA Hons Business Studies with Economics
BA Hons Environmental Studies
BA Hons International Studies
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At postgraduate level, the department contributes to doctoral supervision both in the Faculty of
Social Sciences and with colleagues in other departments and faculties.
Teaching Publications:
The Department’s current teaching publications include:
Simonetti R, Anand P, Himmelweit S, Mackintosh M, Santos C and Stone H, 2010, Doing
Economics: People, Markets and Policy, The Open University
Mazzucato M, Lowe J, Shipman A and Trigg A, 2010, Personal investment in an uncertain
world, Palgrave Macmillan.
Callaghan G S, Fribbance I, and Higginson M, 2007, Personal Finance, London, Wiley
Dawson G, Anand P, Athreye S, Himmelweit S, Mackintosh M, Sawyer M and O’Shaughnessy
T, 2006, Economics and Economic Change, London, Prentice Hall (and FT)
Himmelweit S, Simonetti R and Trigg A, 2001, Microeconomics, London, Thomson.
6. How to obtain more information about the role or application process
If you would like to discuss the particulars of this role before making an application please
contact [email protected] or [email protected] or Jan Smith on
01908 654456 [email protected]
If you have any questions regarding the application process please contact the Recruitment
Co-ordinator on 01908 654483 or email [email protected]
7. The application process and where to send completed applications
Please ensure that your application reaches the University by: 12 noon on Thursday
28 February 2013
Your Application should include
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A completed application form (long version)
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A covering letter or statement indicating your suitability for this position and how
you could contribute to the department. Please ensure you provide relevant
examples as evidence to support your statements and restrict your covering
letter to no more than two sides of A4 paper.
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Curriculum Vitae that includes details of academic qualifications, teaching,
management and research experience, grants received and publications.
Post it to:
Name/Job title:
Lynda Lynn, Recruitment Co-ordinator
Department/Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences
Address:
Room 140, Briggs Building
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
Post Code:
MK7 6AA
Or email your application to: [email protected]
Applicants who are invited for interview will be asked to provide a signed hard copy.
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8. Selection process and date of interview
Information about the interview panel and the selection process will be provided to shortlisted
candidates. Interviews will take place during mid to late March 2013.
We will let you know as soon as possible after the closing date whether you have been
shortlisted for interview.
Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
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