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[mertle]

I have a PhD in literature from a U.S. university and am not familiar with the UK system.  I'm wondering where postdocs and teaching fellowships are advertised.  I have looked at the Times Higher Education Supplement.  Is there anywhere else?     

[august_leo]

www.jobs.ac.uk

[sueenglish]

Hi

There aren't many postdocs in English. Oxbridge colleges advertise Junior Research Fellowships and the British Academy sponser a small number of Postdocs, but generally folks in Lit tend to apply for lecturing jobs. There have been quite a few jobs recently, but many HEI are cutting staff costs right now. Work loads are on the increase in lots of HEIs.

Do you have teaching experience and publications (now or in progress?)

[skyrock]

You can try looking at the faculty/departmental websites of the colleges/universities you may be interested to apply you. Compared to the states, there aren't that many to look up.

[runwithscissors]

I wouldn't bother looking at individual university websites for jobs - everything except for a few internal vacancies is advertised nationally (by law) so if it isn't on jobs.ac.uk or the THE website it basically doesn't exist.

[wegie]

I've run into a few that were on the Grauniad jobs site (effectively the online version of the old Tuesday Educational Jobs supplement) rather than THES or jobs.ac.uk, but those three sites will cover 99.9% of UK academic jobs.

For JRFs it's probably useful to still keep a weather eye on the Gazette and the Reporter as well as the colleges page at Cambridge's HR department as they do tend to have the adverts before the national media.