Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 0.6 FTE (Fixed term contract until 31 Aug 2025)

This role is ideal for someone who has subject expertise and professional practice experience in sport and exercise psychology and experience in designing and delivering higher education provision within this field. The successful candidate will thrive in an environment where they work inter-professionally and can continue to practice and research, whilst providing an outstanding student academic experience to develop high quality graduates in the field. Leadership, passion, solution-focussed, and good communication skills are key qualities of interest.

The role holder will be expected to be a member of an appropriate professional body, for example The British Psychological Society (BPS) or The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and be able to provide expert professional practice experience and education to our students. We encourage applicants from all areas of sport and exercise psychology. The role holder will also join an active research and knowledge exchange community and therefore have the opportunity to develop their research and professional practice contributing to the Centre for Integrated Research in Life and Health Sciences.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Deliver teaching that encompasses employer and skills-led experiential learning and professional development
• Provide academic leadership as appropriate with regard subject specialism and wider academic practice
• Engage in high-quality teaching and learning, research and/or knowledge transfer which demonstrably impacts on practice, generates external income, and contributes to the University’s Enabling Strategies
• Participate in and help develop external networks for the benefit of the University and appropriate areas of teaching, scholarship, research and knowledge transfer.
• Develop strategies to enhance student engagement, satisfaction, and retention within the program. Participate in quality assurance and curriculum review processes, ensuring the program meets academic standards and student needs.

The successful candidate will have skills and experience in:

• Experience of teaching at university level and professional experience in the subject field
• Ability to increase and diversify our income through knowledge exchange activities such as CPD, and/or short course provision, service clinics and consultancy, or successful grant capture from external sources, industry investment, research and IP consultancy
• Extensive experience of teaching at university level in an interdisciplinary manner with evidence of delivering high levels of student satisfaction and outcomes or extensive professional experience of working across multiple teams with evidence of delivering high levels of end user satisfaction and/or outcomes

Academic staff have access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. Our full range of benefits are available here.

If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity, please click on the ‘Apply’ button, above.

If you have any specific questions on the role, please contact Mandy Gault, Deputy Dean Life and Health Sciences (Student Education).

The University is committed to promoting diversity and equality of opportunity and aims to create a culture and environment where students and staff are treated fairly. The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

The closing date for completed applications is: 3 January 2025

It is expected that interviews will be held on 16 January 2025

To enable us to respond to the market, we may interview before the closing date, so please don’t hesitate to get your application completed.

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