Senior Lecturer in Psychology (Education and Scholarship)

This new full-time post is available from 14 February 2025 on a permanent basis.

We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

Psychology at the University of Exeter

The Department of Psychology seeks to appoint an outstanding scholar in psychedelic studies to join our team of exceptional scientists and educators. The successful candidate will join our active, large, and diverse transdisciplinary psychedelics network.

We are looking for an outstanding and highly experienced educator to lead our innovative portfolio of online and on-campus programmes that provide a transdisciplinary approach to psychedelics: our PGCert in Psychedelics, and our MSc Psychedelics (online and on-campus). In addition to acting as programme director, the successful candidate will also contribute to teaching across our extensive portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

The successful candidate will have an established track record in programme management and expertise in the delivery of innovative education; both in person and online. They will help us to deliver an inclusive and innovative education in our undergraduate and postgraduate programs. They should also have experience of driving the development of new educational portfolios at postgraduate level.

The role

We are seeking to appoint a new Senior Lecturer with a particular interest in delivering outstanding education in psychedelics from a transdisciplinary perspective.

About you

For a Senior Lecturer post you will:

• Possess a depth or breadth of specialist knowledge demonstrated by a PhD in a cognate area relevant to the teaching of psychedelics, or equivalent, of the core knowledge relating to psychedelics and psychology in order to teach and support learning on modules related to psychedelics and psychology.
• Have a consistent track record of excellent teaching across a variety of modules and levels within your discipline as might be expected of a very experienced HE Teacher.
• Contribute to the design, development and delivery a range of modules or programmes at various levels; applying innovative and appropriate teaching techniques; identifying sources of funding and securing funds for own scholarly activities and providing academic leadership to those working within programme areas.
• Be expected to work towards Principal Fellow of the HEA and to attend formal CPD relating to this.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Further information

For further information please contact Professor Joanne Smith, e-mail psychologyhod@exeter.ac.uk.

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