Senior Lecturer

We are looking for an academic to join our dynamic and collegiate department as a senior lecturer, to undertake teaching and research in the department. An individual who works in the areas of industrial organization or finance would be of particular interest to us. You will be qualified to PhD level and have teaching experience, demonstrating the ability to provide high quality research-led teaching, and to play a role in curriculum development, at undergraduate and postgraduate level. You will have evidence of sustained and continuing research performance, in terms of high quality outputs and research impact, together with a commitment to attract research funding income. You will demonstrate the ability to build a research team and the potential to offer leadership in research. In this way, you will help the department achieve our objectives in these areas, of providing a modern and dynamic curriculum that is attractive to students, and producing internationally excellent or world class research that has impact on the world around us.

This post is available from September 2024.

The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments in the Faculty with an ambition to grow further. We have a friendly, collegiate and culturally diverse team. We are an international department that currently comprises approximately 40 academics, 15 professional services staff, 30 PhD students, as well as post-doctoral fellows and visiting academics.

We provide research-led economics teaching, exposing students to the latest developments in the discipline so they become critical thinkers, analytical problem solvers and independent researchers.

We’re one of the best not-for-profit organisations to work for in the UK. The University’s Total Reward Package includes a competitive salary, a generous Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as access to a range of learning and development courses to support your personal and professional development.

We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.

As an equal opportunities employer, we particularly welcome applications from women and from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented in this area. All appointments will be made on merit.

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