Assistant Professor in Engineering Management

**Assistant Professor in Engineering Management (ENG_02)** **(**Job Number**:25000165**)**

Department of Engineering

Grade 8: - £46,485 - £55,295 per annum

Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time

**Contract Duration**: Permanent

**Contracted Hours per Week**: 35

**Working Arrangements**: Monday to Friday

**Closing Date**: 17-Mar-2025, 6:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement**: Not Applicable.

**Working at Durham University**

A globally outstanding centre of teaching and research excellence, a warm and friendly place to work, a unique and historic setting - Durham is a university like no other.

As one of the UK’s leading universities, Durham is an incredible place to define your career. The University is located within a beautiful historic city, home to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and surrounded by stunning countryside. Our talented scholars and researchers from around the world are tackling global issues and making a difference to people's lives.

We believe that inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham enables Durham people to do outstanding things in the world. Being a part of Durham is about more than just the success of the University, it’s also about contributing to the success of the city, county and community.

Our University Strategy is built on three pillars of research, education and wider student experience, but also on our keen sense of community and of inspiring others to achieve their potential.

Our Purpose and Values

We want our University to be a place where people can be free to be themselves, no matter what their identity or background. Together, we celebrate difference, value one another and are each responsible for creating an inclusive community that is respectful and fair for all.

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**The Department**

The Department of Engineering at Durham University is continuing a period of strategic growth. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding, unified Engineering Department which is recognised as one of the very best in the UK, with a reputation for excellence in teaching, research and employability of our graduates. The University is in the QS Top 100, and the Department itself is ranked 6th in both the 2025 Times and Guardian tables and 4th in the Complete University Guide 2025. In the REF2021 exercise, 95% of our Engineering outputs were graded 3* or 4*, and the Department is committed to an ethos of research-led and industrially-relevant education at all levels of our taught programmes. We are a scholarly community that is open, representative and diverse: our commitment to this is expressed through work of the Department’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Group, and our Athena Swan Silver award.

The Department of Engineering demonstrates significant depth of research excellence across a range of disciplines, with activities that are currently concentrated around three Research Challenge areas: Sustainable Infrastructure, Future Energy Systems and Advanced Materials, Electronics and Communications. Thematically, our research is split into eight Research Nodes which group together our day-to-day activities and expertise. We are particularly proud of the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of our research, which also includes strong industrial partnerships.

As part of its strategic expansion, the Department is developing a new taught postgraduate MSc in Engineering Management, to start in October 2026, which will be supported by three new academic posts - a Professor and two Assistant Professors. The Assistant Professors of Engineering Management will collaborate closely with the Professor to support the development of the new programme and contribute to its delivery, with the aim of delivering a successful and valuable programme to complement our current range of taught programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. To recognise the significant work required to achieve this, the postholders will have mínimal teaching responsibilities within their first 12 months, allowing them the time and space to develop the programme and to become established within the Department.

**Assistant Professors at Durham**

Assistant Professors on the Education and Research track are encouraged to focus on research and teaching but also to engage in wider citizenship to enhance their own development, support their department and wider discipline, and contribute to the wider student experience.

Academic colleagues are supported to publish high-quality research in their area of interest with a focus on quality in high-impact outputs including monographs, essays in edited volumes, and book chapters, rather than quantity. We will fully support your research needs including practical help such as resources to attend conferences and