Lecturer in Healthcare Financing

About us

The UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH) at UCL East campus is an innovative business school preparing future healthcare leaders to disrupt and reimagine global health systems. GBSH is dedicated to training and developing the next generation of leaders in the global health economy by building on UCL’s proud tradition of cross-disciplinary academic excellence in education and research.

About the role

This post is to strengthen our research and education. We seek candidates with a research specialisation in Healthcare Financing. Candidates need to be able to teach financial entrepreneurship in the healthcare context and financing health-related SMEs. Given the interdisciplinary approach to health challenges taken at Global Business School for Health, we would see willingness to work across disciplines essential for this role.

We are looking for an exceptional colleague who can contribute to our evolving interdisciplinary research across the health ecosystem. This postholder will also support UCL Global Business School for Health’s MBA and EMBA Health delivery at UCL East. The ideal candidate should have teaching experience and a creative approach to designing and delivering postgraduate and professional levels in subject-specific and interdisciplinary contexts.

GBSH is a multidisciplinary department with a health management focus. The ideal candidate will have an evolving research agenda that will allow them to contribute to at least one of the research themes of the department. We have excellent support for early career researchers and ample opportunities to develop your research profile.

• Contribute to the development of research in Healthcare Financing and Health Systems Financing
• Contribute to education in the areas Financial Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare context and health-related SMEs
• Secure external funding sources, preferably as a principal and/or co- investigator.
• The post will involve establishing collaborative relationships and making logistical arrangements for co-teaching with other departments at UCL.
• Recruit and supervise PhD students.
• The appointee will make a world-leading academic contribution to UCL’s interdisciplinary healthcare management education, research and engagement.

The post is due to start in January 2025.

About you

You will be required to have a PhD (or equivalent) in in Finance, Economics, Healthcare Financing, Management or another related area. You will have experience of Higher education teaching, experience in enterprise and engagement commensurate with stage of career and be able to demonstrate a track record of supervising PhD students to completion (AP).

You will have the ability to teach Financial Entrepreneurship in the healthcare context and health-related SMEs, conduct internationally excellent research, which is reflected in the authorship of high-quality publications in an area relevant to your discipline. Knowledge of key debates in healthcare financing as well as financial entrepreneurship, and potential to contribute positively to scholarship in this area is also an essential requirement of the role.

Other essential skills include excellent communication, organisational and prioritisation skills, the ability to work independently or collaboratively as part of a team, supervise postgraduate research students and deliver research-led effective, engaging and inclusive postgraduate teaching.

The interview date is currently scheduled for Thursday 3^rd October (subject to change).

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