Senior Teaching Associate in Psychology

This role will be teaching focused, including responsibility for an area of academic administration relating to education and pedagogy. This presents an ideal opportunity to a PhD student to gain further academic teaching experience in a busy, innovative research-led teaching Department.

About you

The successful candidate: 

• Will make a strong contribution to our high-quality teaching (lectures, seminars and practical classes), primarily at undergraduate level, though possibly also at MSc level. 
• Be willing to innovate with respect to curriculum development (programme design, implementation and assessment) as well as supervise final year dissertation students.
• Have recent experience in teaching Psychology at University level. 

The benefits of the role 

• Generous holiday leave - 25 days (pro-rata) annual leave plus University closure days and bank holidays. 
• Access to employee pension scheme, and annual flexible benefits scheme. 
• We are committed to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion across the Faculty, and supporting family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis. The Department has recently been awarded an Athena Swan Silver Award, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in Higher Education and research.  

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The Psychology Department is a busy teaching and research active Department.  It is home to a friendly group of over 40 Academic staff, with teams of Research,  Professional Services and Technical staff.  The Department supports a large cohort of Undergraduate students on BPS accredited degrees; a thriving group of Masters and Postgraduate research students; and a wide range of research projects including several cross-institution grants.  

Further information about the Department is available at: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk 

Please upload a cover letter with your application.

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups, and for this temporary part-time post we expect a start date in early Jan 2025, to enable preparation before the start of the new Term. 

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be addressed to Prof Gert Westermann, Head of Department, psychology.hod@lancaster.ac.uk

Please note: unless specified otherwise in the advert, all advertised roles are UK based.

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