Lecturer in Environmental Science

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Lecturer in Environmental Science**

**UE08 £43,414 to £51,805 per annum**

**College of Science & Engineering /School of GeoSciences/ Global Change Research Institute**

**Open-ended**

**Full time; 35 hours per week**

We are looking for a lecturer in Environmental Science, with expertise in topics, such as: pollution of the Earth’s surface, emerging contaminants related to the transition to net zero, the environmental science of waste management and circular economies, environmental monitoring and assessment.

**The Opportunity**:
The appointee will contribute high quality teaching to the BSc (Hons) Ecological and Environmental Sciences degree programmes and pursue excellent environmental science research in the School of GeoSciences. The role will involve course design, delivery, assessment and organisation, practical-based and data handling and statistics teaching, pastoral care, and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. The appointee will also pursue excellent research, engage in knowledge exchange, and contribute to Institute and School citizenship and administration.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- A PhD in Environmental Science / Environmental Pollution / Environmental Chemistry or a related discipline
- Ability to deliver high quality research in the field of environmental science in topics related to environmental pollution
- Experience of developing and delivering practical and data handling and statistics teaching in a higher education setting and assessing student performance
- Knowledge of current teaching and learning methods in higher education
- Demonstrable commitment to participating fully in academic life, including supporting students and collaborative working

**Please click **here **to view a copy of the full **job description**

**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.

**Interviews are expected to be held in the week commencing 6 February 2023.**

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 **(opens new browser tab).

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
- covering letter
- research statement (2 pages max.)
- teaching statement (2 pages max.)

The School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Environmental Science on an open-ended contract. We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic individual to join the teaching team for the BSc (Hons) Ecological and Environmental Sciences degree programmes and who has expertise in topics related to environmental pollution. The appointee will contribute high quality teaching to the BSc (Hons) Ecological and Environmental Sciences degree programmes and pursue excellent environmental science research in the School of GeoSciences. The role will involve course design, delivery, assessment and organisation, practical-based and data handling and statistics teaching, pastoral care, and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. The appointee will also pursue excellent research, engage in knowledge exchange, and contribute to Institute and School citizenship and administration.

The appointee will be a member of the Global Change Research Institute in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. The institute is home to around 100 academic and research staff and 130 postgraduate researchers whose overarching mission is to understand past, present and future changes in the Earth system, and to inform mitigation strategies for future change. We host longstanding programmes in understanding how the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, land surface and oceans have interacted in the past, in monitoring their current behaviour, and in developing predictions of their future dynamics. Building on these scientific foundations, we further engage in interdisciplinary research focussed on mitigating the many challenges pos



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