The University is organised into about 140 different departments, each of which recruits its own staff. Permanent academic posts usually have a ‘joint’ post in a College and in the Faculty, but there will also be posts (often, but not exclusively, research-only or teaching-only) that are based in either a College or a Faculty/Department. Colleges arrange their own recruitment and will advertise vacancies on their own websites, although many will also place vacancies on the main university website at:
The following vacancies are primarily in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, which is based at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
The Modern Languages Faculty has roughly 1,000 undergraduates reading for the Honour School of Modern Languages or one of five Joint Schools, and approximately 150 graduate students; there are around 100 academic staff holding university posts. The main subjects studied are French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, and Modern Greek.
The Faculty’s professional services staff are based in Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Most academic staff are based in colleges, but a small number of academics and some research staff are also based at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
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Current Vacancies
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Salary: Grade 7: £39,424 – £47,779 per annum
Contract type: Fixed-term (3 years from 01 September 2026)
About the role
Reporting to the Principal Investigator, Prof. Polly Jones (Slavonic/MML), the postholder will be a member of a research group, also including Co-I Dr Miriam Dobson (Sheffield) and a research associate based in Sheffield (as well as consultants in Ukraine). The postholder will have responsibility for carrying out key research for the three-year interdisciplinary Leverhulme Research Project grant ‘The 101st kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory and mapping’. The project will analyse and compare experiences and (re)imaginings of Soviet urban exclusion in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, and Kazakhstan, generating a co-authored book; articles; and digital atlas and multilingual memoir bibliography.
The duties and skills required are described in further detail in the job description.
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk and Vacancy ID 185716, or via this link direct to the advertisement, where the job description and access to the online recruitment system can also be found.
Closing date: The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Friday, 15 May 2026.
Departmental Lecturer in Medieval French
Salary: Grade 7: £39,424 – £47,779 per annum
Contract type: Fixed Term (1 year) from 01 September 2026
About the role
This fixed-term post is to provide replacement teaching for Professor Daron Burrows during his Leverhulme Research Fellowship.
The post will involve advanced teaching and independent academic research in French.
The successful candidate will contribute to the teaching of medieval French within the Sub-Faculty of French by offering 24 hours of lectures or seminars on medieval topics, 6 hours of classes involving translation from medieval French, and 3 hours of revision lectures over the course of the year. They will also be responsible for providing 6 ‘weighted’ hours a week of undergraduate tuition in French language and literature at St Peter’s College.
The duties and skills required are described in further detail in the job description.
Application process
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk and Vacancy ID 186163, or via this link direct to the advertisement , where the job description and access to the online recruitment system can also be found.
Closing date: The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on Monday, 25 May.