Associate Lecturer in Psychedelics

This new full-time post is available from 30 June 2025 on a permanent basis.

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

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

The role

The Department of Psychology seeks to appoint an emerging 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 excellent educator to contribute to 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). The successful candidate will also contribute to teaching across our extensive portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

We offer a supportive community where all colleagues can thrive and are treated with dignity and respect. The successful candidate will demonstrate how they will enable us to maintain and develop this mission.

The role of Associate Lecturer (Education and Scholarship) will include supporting the student learning experience using a range of approaches and modes of delivery appropriate to the teaching allocated, specifically in psychology and psychedelics. 

About you

For an Associate Lecturer post you will:

• Possess a depth or breadth of specialist knowledge demonstrated by a PhD (or nearing completion), or equivalent qualification/experience, of the core knowledge relating to psychology and psychedelics to teach and support learning on the department’s PGT portfolio in Psychedelics.
• Staff at this level are expected to achieve Associate Fellow of the HEA within two years of appointment (if not already achieved) and to attend formal CPD relating to this.

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

What we can offer you:

• Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines;
• Support teams that understand the University wide teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly;
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development;
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supports high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career;
• A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a Fertility Treatment Policy;
• A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon.

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. 

Further information

For further information please contact Prof Joanne Smith, Head of Department: email psychologyhod@exeter.ac.uk.

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