Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science

About us: The School of Applied Sciences runs a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the conservation and environmental sciences.  This includes the BSc (Hons) and MSci Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Science, BSc (Hons) and MSci Environmental Science, MSc Advanced Wildlife Conservation in Practice, MRes Applied Sciences and the new MSc Conservation Leadership.

The School of Applied Sciences is a very proud recipient of an Athena SWAN Silver Award and our commitment to creating a culture for gender equality is reflected in a number of ongoing actions related to workload management, flexible working and career development within the School.

About the vacancy: We have a vacancy to join the School of Applied Sciences as a Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science. The post holder will support students on our conservation and environmental science programmes, by contributing to teaching and learning, and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate research projects across the discipline. Occasionally, successful candidates will also be required to support teaching teams in other programmes within the School (e.g. Biological Sciences). It is also expected that the post holder will contribute to research within the School, including within one of its research centres, such as the Centre for Research in Biosciences (CRIB).

This is a full-time permanent post. Preference will be given to applicants who can deliver teaching across the broad conservation and environmental sciences with an expertise in forest ecology or habitat management. A growing research profile that aligns to research within the School would be an advantage.

About you: Candidates will be expected to have a science-based PhD relevant to conservation science. We are looking for candidates with a background and broad knowledge across conservation science, preferably with expertise in forest ecology or habitat management and who have experience of teaching and assessment at an HEI. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate experience of devising and delivering teaching, including experience of leadership at a module/programme level.

We are looking for candidates who align to the UWE values. Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate their experience of leading and motivating groups of people, collegiate working and their organisational skills.  Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate how they will keep abreast of latest developments in this subject area and external best practice benchmarks.

The successful candidate will be supported in this role by an experienced senior lecturer as a mentor. Candidates will be expected to undertake the PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE, unless they have already obtained it. The School provides staff development funds to support personal and subject related training for academic staff.

In addition to progressive pay rates, UWE Bristol offers a wide range of staff benefits including:

• a generous holiday allowance of 35 days
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
• flexible working
• excellent defined benefit pension schemes
• access to employee assistance programme
• savings on purchases via Wider Wallet scheme
• option to participate in the cycle to work scheme
• family friendly policies
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus.

Further information

This post is full-time and permanent.

If you would like an informal discussion, please contact:

Subject Lead Andy Ridgway: Andy.ridgway@uwe.ac.uk or Head of School Dr Lyn Newton: Lyn.newton@uwe.ac.uk

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