POSITIONS: Nottingham University Business School

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

Nottingham University Business School - Entrepreneurship Division
Business School Graduate Teaching Assistants - Entrepreneurship & Innovation (Two posts)

Reference : SM27256L
Closing Date : Thursday 31 July 2008
Salary : £18,000 per annum
These posts will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of three years.

Nottingham University Business School is one of the UK's leading business schools and a globally ranked centre for management education and research at one of the UK's most successful universities.  Located on the award winning Jubilee Campus, close to the University Park campus, the School offers undergraduate, MBA, Masters, PhD, and executive education programmes and conducts world-class research in attractive, state-of-the-art facilities.  The School achieved a Grade 5 in the 2001 RAE and its teaching is rated as excellent by HEFCE.

The School wishes to appoint two Business School Graduate Teaching Assistants in the area of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.  Current research areas within the division include:

- Entrepreneurial creativity and discontinuous innovation
- Entrepreneurship education
- The financing of entrepreneurship and small and medium sized enterprises
- Serial entrepreneurs
- Academic entrepreneurship
- Venture capital and equity gaps
- Entrepreneurship and strategy

The successful candidates will be expected to undertake teaching assistance up to a maximum of 120 class-based contact hours per annum and will also be registered for a PhD.  The School will pay full-time tuition fees at the UK/EU rate.  These posts provide an opportunity to undertake PhD research in a leading Business School with a well established PhD programme.  Graduates of the programme are in demand in both academic and non-academic roles.

Candidates should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (minimum 2:1) and hold, or expect to have obtained by Autumn 2008, a Masters qualification in a relevant subject (average over 60%).

Possible research areas and details about the Business School and the PhD Programme are detailed in the further particulars, which are available at: http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/SM27256L.

Please Email any informal enquiries to Janet Cooke (Janet.Cooke at Nottingham.ac.uk), who will forward your query to the relevant contact in the School.

Please note that candidates should include a research proposal of approximately 1,000 - 2,000 words with their application.

More info at http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Upload/vacancies/files/3443/SM27256L.doc