Ref Number B04-05806 Professional Expertise Academic Department UCL BEAMS (B04) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary See advert text Contract Type Permanent Working Type On site Available for Secondment No Closing Date 03-Feb-2025
About Us
The UCL School of Management is home to UCL’s business and management research and education programmes. The School has forged a reputation for world-leading research and teaching in the areas of innovation management, the creation and growth of technology-intensive organisations, business analytics, and entrepreneurship.
The research undertaken at the UCL School of Management has been rated as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF), placing us 2nd in the UK in Business and Management for the proportion of research outputs at 3* or 4* level.
The School is a member of the Chartered Association of Business Schools. Our academic staff, comprised of 98 academic and education faculty, is organised around five research groups, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Organisations & Innovation, Operations & Technology, Marketing & Analytics, and Finance, Accounting & Economics. We offer innovative undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA, MRes & PhD and executive programmes in Management, Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, Business Information Systems, and Finance, designed to prepare students for leadership roles in the next generation of innovation-intensive organisations. The School is home to over 1,500 students, with more than 55% from outside the UK. The School’s faculty members also come from all over the world, with PhDs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, North-Western, Cornell, Duke, Cambridge, and London Business School among others.
The Department of Economics The Chair of Political Economy at UCL was created in 1827 in memory of David Ricardo, thus establishing the first Department of Economics in England. The department of Economics has an outstanding international reputation in key areas of current research. It is the only department of economics in the UK to have received the outstanding grade-point average of 3.78 (out of 4) in the 2014 REF with 79% of all indicators of output rated at the highest 4* level.
The department offers a number of undergraduate degree programmes, a vigorous undergraduate affiliate student programme, Masters programmes in Economics and Finance and a structured MPhil/PhD programme. The Department of Economics at UCL is a medium-sized department by UK standards with a regular academic staff of 50, but it is supplemented with full-time research staff and part-time teaching fellows plus an active programme of academic visitors. There are currently over 1000 undergraduates and more than 150 graduate students studying in the department Further information about the Department of Economics is available from the department’s website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/economics/
The UCL takes full advantage of being part of a world-leading university through its interdisciplinary outlook and builds on close collaborations in both research and education with other UCL departments, including computer science, engineering, economics, psychology, public policy, statistics and medical sciences.
Further information about the School can be found here: www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/
About The Role
As part of its continuing expansion in the field of Finance, University College London (UCL) seeks to appoint a Lecturer in a joint position at the UCL School of Management (in the Finance, Accounting & Economics group) and the Department of Economics (In the Centre for Finance).
The post holders will be expected to carry out research in Financial Economics, and produce publications, or other research outputs, at an internationally significant standard in terms of originality, significance and rigour, in line with personal and School objectives agreed upon in the Staff Review and School planning processes.
The starting date for this post will be 01 August 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.
Competitive salary (includes Market Supplements on top of basic salary listed above).
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document. When completing your supporting statement, please tell us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.
If you have any queries about the role or need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible online format to apply for this job, please contact mgmt-hrsom@ucl.ac.uk.
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About You
The successful candidate will need to evidence the following in their application:
- By the date of appointment, or shortly thereafter, a PhD or equivalent qualification in Finance or Economics
- Research outputs consistent with UCL’s expectations for international research excellence
- Previous experience of teaching, or teaching assistance, in a related field at the undergraduate or postgraduate level
- The ability to make a distinctive contribution to the School/Department’s teaching needs
- Ability to teach students or delegates from a wide range of disciplines and cultural backgrounds
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within UCL at this level. We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion here.
Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.
- download: Lecturer in Finance JD.docx
- download: TalentLink Candidate Guidance.pdf
