Academic Lecturer

2 months ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom University of Glasgow Full time
Job Purpose

To contribute to the delivery of an exceptional student experience by participating in teaching, assessment, and administrative processes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and to undertake scholarship to enhance learning and teaching in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience.

Main Responsibilities
  1. Deliver a range of teaching, supervision, and assessment activities across undergraduate and postgraduate programs within the School.
  2. Carry out course administration within required timescales, ensuring effective communication of information, particularly assessment requirements and criteria, and timely and constructive feedback on assessment.
  3. Contribute to the ongoing development and design of the curriculum in a manner that supports a research-led and scholarly approach to student learning and assessment in the discipline and/or profession.
  4. Make effective use of learning technologies to support and enhance course delivery, course organization, feedback, and assessment, which may involve blended and/or online provision.
  5. Ensure an inclusive and evidence-based approach to facilitating learning in a range of face-to-face and potentially online delivery formats, such as tutorials, lectures, problem-based learning, that promotes student participation and learning outcome attainment.
  6. Engage in scholarship by undertaking methodologically rigorous, educationally relevant, inquiries into student learning and disseminate evidence to enhance your own, and potentially others', teaching practices.
  7. Develop effective working relationships with students and, in partnership with relevant student services teams, respond appropriately to the diverse range of learning approaches and learner needs.
  8. Develop relationships with external stakeholders in support of knowledge exchange, public understanding, and appropriate forms of outreach, such as widening access.
  9. Participate in local and potentially overseas activities associated with student recruitment, orientation, and induction, and other School and University initiatives, such as support for student transitions, employability, and student mobility, as appropriate.
  10. Engage in continuing professional development activities as necessary.
  11. Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the Head of School.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

Essential:

  • A PhD in Psychology and/or Neuroscience or equivalent.
  • Sufficient breadth and/or depth of knowledge in the specialist subject/discipline and of teaching methods and techniques to work within the subject area.
  • Thorough knowledge and ability to apply relevant policy, practice, and procedures, including broader University/sector/external awareness.
  • Up-to-date knowledge and specialist understanding in the field with an ability to engage the interest and enthusiasm of students to inspire learning and to provide pastoral care to students within the subject area.

For appointment at Grade 8:

  • A PhD in Psychology and/or Neuroscience with a growing reputation for scholarship within the subject area.
  • Extensive breadth and depth of knowledge in the specialist subject/discipline to develop teaching programs/methodologies/learning support.
  • Continuing engagement with current practice and developing knowledge.

Skills:

  • Ability to communicate material of a specialist or highly technical nature and to be effective both orally and in writing at a level appropriate to the activity.
  • Ability to teach neuroscience/cognitive neuroscience/qualitative methods, and/or quantitative methods using R.

For appointment at Grade 8:

  • Ability to communicate complex or conceptual ideas to those with limited knowledge and understanding, and developing early career academic colleagues.
  • Ability to contribute to broader leadership and management activities, along with an awareness of current and future priorities of the University/College/School/Service.

Experience:

  • Experience of planning and progressing work activities within professional guidelines or organizational policy, applying initiative and independent judgment.
  • Demonstrated commitment to open research, as appropriate to the discipline, through open data, open code, open educational resources, and practices that support replication.
  • Proven commitment to supporting the career development of colleagues and to other forms of collegiality appropriate to the career stage.

For appointment at Grade 8:

  • Track record of scholarship and development and delivery of teaching, and proven ability to develop and devise teaching programs, techniques, and methods.
  • Experience and achievement in the relevant field reflected in an expanding personal academic portfolio.
  • Proven ability to design, review, and enhance multiple learning, teaching, and assessment programs.
  • Experience of developing and demonstrating teaching and research methods and devising models, approaches, techniques, critiques, and methods.
  • Demonstrated commitment to open research, as appropriate to the discipline, through open data, open code, open educational resources, and practices that support replication.
  • Proven commitment to supporting the career development of colleagues and to other forms of collegiality appropriate to the career stage.

Desirable:

  • Experience in teaching neuroscience/cognitive neuroscience/qualitative methods, and/or quantitative methods using R.

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