Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Psychology - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Lecturer – Grade 8 - £41,526 - £49,553

Senior Lecturer – Grade 9 - £52,559 - £59,135

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences /Psychology            

Open-ended, Full-time

Positions x 2

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint several open ended, fulltime Lecturer/Senior lecturers to its Department of Psychology.

The post holders will contribute high quality research, teaching and academic citizenship. We are open to candidates with a background in any area of Psychology that fits well into the department’s current research profile.

The post holders will contribute high quality research, teaching and academic citizenship. We are open to candidates with a background in any area of Psychology that fits well into the department’s current research profile (broadly: developmental science; differential psychology; human cognitive neuroscience; language, cognition, and communication; social psychology).

 There is an opportunity for appointment at senior lecturer level, for which the post holders will be expected to have demonstrated leadership experience and to contribute actively to the management of the Subject Area.

Please download our recruitment pack for further details.

Your skills and attributes for success:

 •     You will have extensive experience of original research in a relevant area of Psychology, supported by a relevant qualification (normally a PhD or equivalent);

•     You will have published first-author and/or collaborative research in high quality venues, and have a commitment to obtaining external research funding;

•     You will have a deep commitment to delivering engaging and effective teaching to students at all levels, and from diverse backgrounds;

•     You will have a positive and collegiate attitude towards teaching and wider departmental responsibilities;

•     You will aspire to motivate, support, and lead students, teaching teams, and colleagues.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

PPLS welcomes applications from candidates belonging to groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the subject, including, but not limited to, women and ethnic minorities.

Interviews will be held around week commencing 21st June 2021 (online).

Applicants should upload a cover letter into the online application portal and submit a CV in all cases. Applicants do not need to submit writing samples or letters of reference when applying. We will seek letters of reference for those shortlisted for interview unless specifically stated otherwise on the application form.

More information on how to submit your application can be found here.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK.  Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role.  If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Tier 2/Skilled Worker Visa.

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

The School comprises Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (Linguistics and English Language). We offer a rich and diverse learning and research environment for our staff and students, with close links between our three subject areas, alongside other world-class research areas within the University and beyond. The School is recognised as world-leading, as shown in its excellent output across all areas in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), our research environment is rated as 100% conducive to internationally excellent research across all subject areas and all of the School’s subject areas consistently rank in the top 50 in the world.

The School is unique in offering outstanding opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching and in pioneering novel forms of research that reach across traditional boundaries. In 2020/21, the School welcomed nearly 2300 students from around the world onto our diverse range of programmes. The School has well established links with other areas of the University such Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine, Informatics and Edinburgh College of Art.  This large and diverse teaching portfolio is augmented by the breadth of our research portfolio, whereby we are able to secure large volumes and value of externally funded research grants. Our core income budget is circa £30m per annum.

There are over 160 academic staff within the School, and the breadth of expertise ranges from analytic philosophy and the study of English language, through theoretical and applied linguistics, philosophy of science and epistemology and experimental psychology, to cognitive neurosciences and genetic influences on human behaviour. We have nine research centres which drive our research and help put our research into practice, connecting academia with industry, policy and the general public.

We are fully committed to recognising and supporting equality and diversity amongst our staff and students. In 2017 we were awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze award by the Equality Challenge Unit’s Athena SWAN charter in recognition of our efforts to promote a School culture of equality.

Further information about our school can be found on https://www.ed.ac.uk/PPLS