Overview
About the role
We are seeking applications for up to three Teaching & Scholarship Lecturers in Biomedical Sciences and Preclinical disciplines as outlined below. You should be able to undertake the full range of teaching and administrative activities in at least one module from list A and one from list B below, in addition to contributing to the different year 3 project modules. Applicants should also be able to develop plans and execute scholarship projects aligned with teaching and learning.
List A
- Neurobiology
- Basic Medical Genetics
- Pathology
List B
- Human Embryology and Development
- Human Medical Genetics and Genomics
- Human Anatomy
The joint programme is a highly regarded and successful programme based in Nanchang, China that started in ** Teaching and assessments are delivered in person in Nanchang, China as QM staff travel out to Nanchang for multiple teaching and assessment visits across the academic year. However, staff are based within the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences at Mile End when not on a teaching visit in China.
About You
We are looking to recruit highly collegiate individuals to join an interactive interdisciplinary team working together to support and encourage student learning and development. You will have a passion for your chosen academic disciplines but should also have the appropriate subject knowledge and ability to teach and integrate knowledge across the range of subjects on the Biomedical Sciences undergraduate curriculum. Underpinning our teaching is the development of critical thinking skills in our students to enable our qualified graduates to be well versed in evidence-based medicine in later practice and research. Therefore, we expect the successful candidate will have an excellent academic background with a relevant PhD in the Life or Biomedical Sciences and/ or equivalent professional qualification and experience.
About the School
SBBS is a large and expanding academic unit, which provides a supportive and friendly environment. It prides itself on its inclusivity of staff and students, as well as research-led innovative teaching throughout its educational programmes. Joint Programme staff interact extensively with one another both in Nanchang and Mile End in person.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum, a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
