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Job title Senior Lecturer

Department Psychology

Salary Starting from £56,921, rising to £65,814

Grade Grade 9

Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Thursday 16 January 2025

Closing date Monday 10 February 2025

Interview date Friday 28 February 2025

Reference CH12266

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Senior Lecturer

The Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Senior Lecturer (full-time, fixed term basis for 3 years) who has demonstrable research quality, with international reach, and the ability to contribute to the teaching across our programmes while advancing our research and teaching portfolio.

About the role

Research in the department occurs across major subdisciplines in psychology, including clinical, cognitive, developmental, environmental, health, and social. 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.

About you

The successful candidate will have:

  • Strong communication skills, you will have a breadth and depth of knowledge to lead course development and scholarship activities.
  • Bring experience with impact related to your research and teaching.
  • Be committed to and have experience of delivering high quality teaching including inclusive teaching practice and student engagement.
  • Show evidence of effective working in interdisciplinary teams.

Further Information 

This role is offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per week) fixed term basis for 3 years.

Informal enquiries can be directed to the Head of Department Prof Mark Brosnan pssmjb@bath.ac.uk and/or to the Deputy Head of Department (Research and Knowledge Exchange) Prof Ed Keogh pssemk@bath.ac.uk 

What we can offer you:

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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