Lecturer in Psychology and Psychedelics (Education and Research)

This new full-time post is available from 30 June 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.

The role

The Department of Psychology seeks to appoint outstanding scholars in psychedelic studies to join our team of exceptional scientists and educators to conduct world-leading research aimed at tacking the big challenges facing mental health and wellbeing in society and educate the next generation of psychologists. The successful candidate will join our active, large, and diverse transdisciplinary psychedelics network.  

We welcome applications from any area of psychology and psychedelics, but we would particularly welcome applications from candidates who work in the clinical applications of psychedelics. We would also welcome applications from people who bring new methods expertise to our existing research themes and groups (see Research | Psychology | University of Exeter).

Successful candidates will also help us to deliver and inclusive and innovative education to our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, particularly our innovative portfolio of online and on-campus programmes in psychedelics (Psychology | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter).

We offer a supportive community where all colleagues can thrive and are treated with dignity and respect. We have held an Athena Swan Silver award since 2016. The successful candidate will demonstrate how they will enable us to maintain and develop this mission.

The post of Lecturer in Psychology and Psychedelics will contribute to extending the research profile of psychology and psychedelics at Exeter.

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 to produce internationally exciting research;
• An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development
• Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting 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.

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 world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today.  More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

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 an informal and confidential discussion about the post please contact Prof Joanne Smith, psychologyhod@exeter.ac.uk

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