About The Role
The Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit Lecturers who have demonstrable research quality, with international reach, and the ability to contribute to teaching in our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes while advancing our research and teaching portfolio. Research in the department occurs across more than six major subdisciplines in psychology, including clinical, cognitive, developmental, environmental, health, and social and the department is looking to recruit a candidate with expertise in these areas.
We welcome candidates with research strengths in any relevant area of psychology that fit with our key areas of research. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates who complement our research in the following areas of psychology: Addiction, Autism (with a child/youth focus), Digital applications (e.g., Artificial Intelligence), Environmental Psychology, Pain Psychology, and Youth Mental Health.
In This Role You Will
- Prepare and deliver teaching on the department's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. This will include developing the teaching material, delivery of lectures, seminars and tutorials.
- Alongside the supervision, assessment and marking of coursework and research dissertations, you will provide advice and support to students, as well as undertake teaching-related management and administration duties.
- This role may also involve undertaking student placement visits as well as supporting the relevant teams map our curriculums to the BPS curriculum in preparation for accreditation.
The Successful Candidate
You will:
- Be committed to and have experience of delivering high quality teaching.
- Bring experience with impact related to your research and teaching.
- Show evidence of inclusive teaching practice and student engagement.
- Be able to evidence effective working in interdisciplinary teams.
- Have experience supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
Further information
These roles are offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.
Informal enquiries can be directed to the Head of Department Prof Mark Brosnan (pssmjb@bath.ac.uk) and/or to the Deputy Heads of Department Prof Ed Keogh (pssemk@bath.ac.uk) or Prof Sarah Halligan (slh54@bath.ac.uk).
Interviews will take place 03 and 04 February.
What We Can Offer You
- a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
- generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
- an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
- a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.
Find Out More About Our Benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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Closing Date: 19 Jan 2025
Department: Education & Research
Salary: £46,485 to £55,295
