Lecturer in Social Science and Medicine

1 week ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Lecturer in Social Science and Medicine**
**Grade UE08 (£45,585-£54,395)**
**CMVM / MGPHS / Usher Institute**
**Full time, 35 hours per week**
**Open Ended, available from January 2024**
**Location: Teviot Place, Edinburgh.**
**The Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, early 2024**

The Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a lecturer with a passion for both teaching and research who can contribute to social sciences teaching on our undergraduate medical degrees. It offers an opportunity to join a dynamic research institute with a strong social science team.

**The Opportunity:
Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Jeni Harden, Reader in Social Science and Health

**Your skills and attributes for success:
- Experience of organising and delivering social sciences teaching within undergraduate medicine.
- Thorough understanding of social sciences as applied to health, illness and medicine
- Track record of excellent research and scholarship of international impact, including the publication of peer reviewed articles in high quality journals.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including experience of interacting with public health stakeholders
- Experience of working in an interdisciplinary context.

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Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.

**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. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) 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.

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**Work with us | Usher Institute **_- where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world. _**

Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.

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