The Department of International Development is seeking an outstanding early to mid-career social scientist (economist or a related field) whose research is relevant to development in middle-income countries or emerging economies. The primary focus of the post is to teach modules on and around transnational corporations, global commodity/value/supply chains, different modalities of foreign investment and capital flows, global (ised) production and related topics, as well as their implications for labour, technology, trade, finance and international relations, broadly understood, and from the perspective of dynamic emerging economies in the Global South.

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team currently working on a wide range of topics including political economy, inequality and poverty, gender rights, natural resources, international trade, migration, health policy, and other pressing issues facing emerging economies today.

The Department of International Development (DID) began life in 2012 as the International Development Institute at King’s, growing to become a fully-fledged department in 2016, It currently has 22 academic staff, and approaching 400 students. International development at King's has a different agenda to ‘traditional’ development studies. In keeping with its origins as a King’s Global Institute, DID specifically focuses on the middle-income developing countries or the rapidly changing ‘emerging economies’ where foreign aid is largely irrelevant. Research at the Department seeks to explore critical perspectives on economic growth, modernisation and ‘progress’ and to do so by exploring context-specific economic, social and political change in these countries rather than applying prescriptive models of development.