Job Description

Grade UE07 41,064 - 48,822 per annum

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/ School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Fixed term: 12 months, from 1

st

January 2026

Full time: 35 hours per week

The Opportunity:

Applications are invited for a Teaching and Research Fellowship in Classical Art and Archaeology, with a focus on Roman art and archaeology, in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. The post is available from 1 st January 2026 for a fixed term of 12 months; full-time contract.



The salary scale for this post is

UE07 41,064 to 48,822

per annum.

Your skills and attributes for success:

A PhD in Classical or Roman art and/or archaeology or a cognate field. Track record of potential for excellence in teaching and research. A passion for research-led teaching.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

A competitive salary. An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community. Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our

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Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.


Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our

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The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 9 October 2025.




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Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.

About the team:

Classics at Edinburgh offers teaching across all areas of classical studies - Greek and Latin Literature and Thought, Ancient History, Classical Art and Archaeology, Byzantine and Medieval Latin Studies as well as Modern Greek Studies. All academic staff teach at all levels of the curriculum, and teaching is taken very seriously.


Undergraduate applications to the uniquely flexible single and joint honours degrees in Classics are buoyant and applications and enrolments are high. There is a very strong and growing presence of over 60 postgraduate students, both in our three taught programmes (Classics; Ancient History; Classical Art and Archaeology) and in our research degrees, with a large number of students coming from abroad.


Research interests in the subject area cover virtually all areas of classical studies. Our archaeologists conduct fieldwork from Italy to (Sasanian) Iran; our historians are doing ground breaking work on the Ancient Greek city, the history of the Hellenistic empires, Roman slavery, and late Roman and Byzantine culture and politics. Our language and literature staff cover Greek and Latin literature from Archaic and Classical Greece via Augustan and Imperial Rome to the late antique and medieval transmission and reception of the Greek and Latin Classics. In REF2021, the most recent research assessment exercise, Classics was ranked third in the UK for Research Power. Full information about the subject area can be found on our website at:


To find out more, please visit the Classics Website: https://hca.ed.ac.uk/classics