Lecturer in Mental Health (Teaching & Research)

About the Role
We are offering an exciting opportunity to become a Lecturer in Mental Health (Teaching & Research) at the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health in the Wolfson Institute for Population Health at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL). The Centre has an ambitious and growing portfolio of internationally-leading teaching and research across the life span. Details about the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health can be found here.

About You
The successful candidate will make contributions to research, and to student education and experience through curriculum development and teaching delivery in the subject area of forensic psychology, psychiatry, or a related field. You should be enthusiastically committed to developing internationally excellent research programmes in your area of interest within mental health, and providing high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. You should be a team player, committed to delivering QMUL research and teaching strategy. You will lead funding applications for new research; meet University of London standards for the academic level of the appointment and have already made established contributions in your field, through publications, research, teaching and administration.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offers international excellence in research and teaching. It is ranked 2nd in the 2021 QS World University rankings for research citations and consistently positioned first in London for subject rankings and student satisfaction. The Wolfson Institute of Population Health harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health and preventive medicine.

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 (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), 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.

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.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Professor Nathan Davies at n.davies@qmul.ac.uk.

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