Durham Doctoral Teaching Fellowship in Psychology

The purpose of the DDTF is to support the Fellow in completing a high-quality Ph.D. thesis whilst acquiring teaching skills that will enhance the Fellow’s career progression.  In addition to conducting a high-quality research project, the DDTF will assist and support faculty staff to deliver teaching and support learning. The role aims to enhance the Fellow’s own progression and achievements, both with respect to research and teaching.

The post involves a teaching load, and the schedule of teaching activities will be designed with the requirements of the PhD project in mind. There will be an expectation to secure a formal teaching qualification leading to Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and the Fellow will be provided with the time and support required to achieve this expectation. 

The Fellow will be entitled to a total of 42 months of stipend (UKRI value) and 12 months of salary at Grade 6 (£29,605) during the duration of the fellowship.  How this time is divided will be agreed by the successful candidate and the Department.

DDTFs normally last for four and a half years and comprise three and a half years of research and one year of teaching (1540 hours in total, based on a 35-hour week and a 44-week year). Teaching responsibilities are typically distributed across the first four years.

Start date: Successful candidates will ideally be in post by 1 October 2024.

Deadline:  Wednesday, 31^st July 2024, 11:59 pm.

Full information available at: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/psychology/postgraduate-study/funding/

Durham University 

A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a collegiate community of extraordinary people, a unique and historic setting – Durham is a university like no other.

The Department

The Department of Psychology is consistently ranked as one of the very best in the UK with an outstanding reputation for excellence in teaching, research, and employability of our students. We are currently ranked 11^th in the Complete University Guide, 13^th in the Guardian University League Table, and in the top 100 of Psychology Departments world-wide according to the QS World Rankings.

The Department’s research falls within three groupings: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science, Quantitative Social Psychology. In addition, the Department houses several University Research Centres bringing in staff from across the department, university, and region to focus on key research issues. The department is committed to creating and maintaining a research and teaching environment that spans the entire breadth of psychology.

There is a vibrant research culture with a departmental weekly research seminar series, training opportunities and a commitment to open science. We pride ourselves on being a collegiate and welcoming department, committed to success for all who work here. This is illustrated by our Athena Swan Silver Award received in 2013, renewed in 2017 and 2022.

With recent expansion and multimillion investment in research and teaching infrastructure over the past four years, the Department has outstanding research facilities. Our major research facilities include a 3T MRI scanner and mock scanner for piloting and habituating clinical populations and extensive research labs including dedicated EEG/ERP, TMS, tDCS, eye tracking, virtual reality, various biophysiological recording set-ups, as well as excellent dedicated space for behavioural neuroscience. The Department also has a large whole-body motion capture lab, a fully equipped molecular diagnostics lab, an echo-attenuated chamber, and a suite of observation labs.

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