Lecturer

About the role

The Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit Lecturers who have demonstrable research quality, with international reach, and the ability to contribute to teaching in our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes while advancing our research and teaching portfolio. Research in the department occurs across more than six major subdisciplines in psychology, including clinical, cognitive, developmental, environmental, health, and social and the department is looking to recruit a candidate with expertise in these areas.

We welcome candidates with research strengths in any relevant area of psychology that fit with our key areas of research. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates who complement our research in the following areas of psychology: Addiction, Autism (with a child/youth focus), Digital applications (e.g., Artificial Intelligence), Environmental Psychology, Pain Psychology, and Youth Mental Health.

In this role you will:

• Prepare and deliver teaching on the department's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. This will include developing the teaching material, delivery of lectures, seminars and tutorials.
• Alongside the supervision, assessment and marking of coursework and research dissertations, you will provide advice and support to students, as well as undertake teaching-related management and administration duties.
• This role may also involve undertaking student placement visits as well as supporting the relevant teams map our curriculums to the BPS curriculum in preparation for accreditation.

The successful candidate:

You will: 

• Be committed to and have experience of delivering high quality teaching.
• Bring experience with impact related to your research and teaching.
• Show evidence of inclusive teaching practice and student engagement.
• Be able to evidence effective working in interdisciplinary teams.
• Have experience supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.

Further information

These roles are offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis. 

Informal enquiries can be directed to the Head of Department Prof Mark Brosnan (pssmjb@bath.ac.uk) and/or to the Deputy Heads of Department Prof Ed Keogh (pssemk@bath.ac.uk) or Prof Sarah Halligan (slh54@bath.ac.uk).

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