Teaching & Research Lecturer in Sustainable Marine

Applications are invited for this permanent, full-time post working in the School of Ocean Sciences within the Sustainable Fisheries Team at Bangor University.

Teaching and administrative duties will include research and teaching of marine biology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels across a range of modules.

Applications will also be considered to carry out this role on a part-time or job share basis.

Committed to Equal Opportunities

Overview

The School of Ocean Sciences has an international reputation in multi and interdisciplinary research in the areas of earth system science, climate change and marine conservation and resource management. Over 95% of our outputs were ranked as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Bangor’s research is changing the world in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences and is 1st in the UK for the impact of its research.

With one of the largest groups of environmental scientists in the UK, our research is ranked sixth in the UK and 1st in Wales for research power. Research ranges from Marine Biology and Ecology, Aquaculture and Fisheries through to Earth System Modelling, Physical Oceanography, Sediment Bioremediation and Dynamics, Marine Mammal Science, Tropical Ecology, Marine Renewable Energy, Ecosystem Service Provision and Geological Oceanography. Stakeholder and industry relevant work in the School and Marine Centre Wales has used fundamental understanding to guide applied areas of research such as Marine Renewable Energy, fisheries & aquaculture, improved weather forecasting, flood risk assessment and coastal defence.

The School currently offers 10 undergraduate programmes, 6 MSci. programmes and 5 postgraduate taught programmes across the marine sciences with further programmes under development.

The Project

The Sustainable Fisheries Team at Bangor University has a long record of accomplishment in fisheries science, and management advice within UK and especially Welsh fisheries. The philosophy of the research has always been to undertake research collaboratively and participatory with stakeholders, particularly fishers themselves.

Over the last few years, increased collaboration with managers has also ensured that the research can be increasingly used within policy. Fisheries research and management is a complex socio-ecological problem and the integration of increased socio-economic expertise is seen as an important step towards fully sustainable fisheries.Over the last two decades, in order to manage and monitor fish stocks within an ecosystem based framework, there has been a rapid increase in research into fisheries indicators and how they relate to the stock and the wider ecosystem. More recently there has also been an increase in research into the sensitivity of these indicators to respond to changes at both the fished stock level and the ecosystem level. However, much of this research has been carried out on finfish stocks that are data rich. There has been much less research on data poor species such as shellfish and therefore the selection of indicators and their sensitivity to fishing effort and wider ecosystem status is not well understood.

Purpose of the Job
- To teach at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including tutorials and supervision of MSci and MSc research projects.
- To conduct research of an international standard in a relevant field, with substantial evidence of quality and international peer recognition.
- To provide pastoral and academic support to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- To conduct administrative tasks as designated by the Head of School.

Main

**Responsibilities**:

- Teaching duties will include:
- Plan, prepare and deliver lectures and tutorials in a wide range of topics. Responding effectively to a variety of student backgrounds, learning styles and class sizes.
- Motivate students to proactive engagement in learning and provide meaningful and constructive feedback on the quality of their work.
- Keep abreast of new professional, educational and related social, economic and technological developments.
- Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects.
- Act as personal tutor to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Contribute to the development of new programmes.

Research duties will include:
- Personal research, and/or collaborative research with colleagues in the School, across the College, University and externally.
- Secure funding for, and lead a research team conducting research to support sustainable resource management in fisheries.
- Management of research projects including PhD research supervision.
- Disseminate and publish results of research in high quality peer-reviewed journals.
- Work towards developing world leading research impact.
- Contribute towards the School’s capability to attract external research funding.
- Engage in scholarly and other relevant professional activities.
- Supervision of research