Lecturer

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Job Description:

Grade UE08: £49,250 – £60,321 per annum

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences /Psychology

Full time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended: permanent

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to appoint one full time, open-ended, teaching-focused Lecturer to its Department of Psychology.

The Opportunity:

The successful candidate will deliver high-quality teaching within the department, joining a collaborative team responsible for the design and delivery of the quantitative methods curriculum (taught in R) across Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes. They will play a key role in ensuring that courses are engaging, innovative, and aligned with current developments in the field, while supporting students in their academic and professional growth. Additionally, the successful candidate will be expected to coordinate a team of tutors to ensure the successful delivery of teaching.

Please download our recruitment pack for further details.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• You will have experience of teaching research methods and statistics, supported by a relevant qualification (normally a PhD or equivalent);
• You will have proven experience in teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including engagement with course/curriculum design and development;
• You have experience with the open-source software R and RStudio, and experience on how to implement/teach statistical methods in R;
• You will have a positive and collegiate attitude towards teaching and wider departmental responsibilities;
• You will aspire to motivate, support, and lead students, teaching teams, and colleagues.

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Application Procedure:

Applicants should upload a cover letter into the online application portal along with a CV and an A4 page summarising one potential UG and one potential PG project at taught MSc level (for the range of MSc programmes available in the department, see our website) that the candidate would offer to our dissertation students. These documents must be uploaded in all cases.

Applicants do not need to submit writing samples or letters of reference when applying, however we do ask that the names and contact details of 3 potential referees be included as part of your CV or cover letter. We will seek letters of reference for those shortlisted for interview unless specifically stated otherwise on the application form.

If you are currently in the process of completing your studies/PhD programme please note any relevant timescales in your cover letter and/or CV.

As a School we acknowledge that people’s career paths are rarely linear and welcome applicants to expand on their professional and personal journeys where appropriate.

More information on how to submit your application can be found

Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of Psychology, Prof Sarah MacPherson: .

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

• A competitive salary of £49,250 – £60, 321 (Annual increments through the scale will occur with each years continuous service).
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our

and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion:

The (Company Name - Subscribers only) 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.

We particularly welcome applications from eligible candidates from under-represented groups, including racially minoritised individuals and all gender identities.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our .

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.

Key dates to note:

The closing date for applications is Monday, 27th January 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Interviews will be held on campus around late March 2025 and attendees will be required to take part in several meetings and activities over the period of around two days as part of the interview process.

Expected start date of role is on or close to 1st August 2025.

About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team:

Established in 1906, Psychology at Edinburgh was one of the first departments of psychology in the UK. We currently have around 40 academic staff, 40 research staff, and 70 PhD students. The department enjoys a world-wide reputation for its research, covering a range of topics from the psychology of language to individual differences. Psychology at Edinburgh ranks 2nd in the UK and 20th in the world (Times Higher Education – World University Rankings 2018 by subject: psychology).

We are home to world-class research groups in human cognitive neuroscience, individual differences, psychology of language and developmental psychology. Psychology also houses the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE), which is an international leader in the field, and the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre. In the Times Higher Education rankings of the Research Excellence Framework 2014, our research is placed 1st in Scotland as part of a joint submission for psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience.

We have excellent facilities for research and teaching, including a cognitive neuroscience facility with EEG/ERP, NIRS, TMS, eye and motion-tracking technologies, a developmental facility with infant eye-tracking capabilities, a psychometric test library, and general computing and experimental research facilities. Staff have access to the Welcome Trust Clinical Research Facility and the Scottish Brain Imaging Research Centre, as well as a large volunteer panel to assist the recruitment of normal adult subject samples.

Students from around the world study Psychology at Edinburgh, with 35% of our students coming from outside the UK from over 40 different countries. We have a well-established postgraduate programme, offering seven taught MSc programmes as well as PhD study. Undergraduate class sizes range from around 350 in first year (including a first year intake onto Psychology single and joint honours degree programmes of around 110 students), to more specialist third and fourth year classes of around 50 students. Small-group teaching is a feature throughout the curriculum, with students taught in groups of 6-15 by academic staff and postgraduate tutors. The Psychology student society, PsychSoc, runs a wide series of social and scientific events and also coordinates a PsychPALS scheme, in which first year students are mentored by older students.

Psychology’s unique role as part of the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences has fostered rich teaching and research collaborations in cognitive science, moral psychology, and the psychology of language. We have links across the University with world-class researchers in related disciplines such as business studies, economics, sociology, neuroscience, neuroinformatics, and genetics. We have extensive national and international collaborative links in all of these disciplines

Find out more at https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/psychology