Lecturer (Teaching & Research)

The School of Health Sciences wishes to appoint a Lecturer (Teaching & Research) to join the Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) team at the University of Manchester. The person appointed will become a key member of the SLT team, providing cutting-edge teaching, undertake original research in language and communicative development and contribute to innovation, evaluation and development of SLT education here at Manchester.

The person appointed will have a PhD related to linguistics, psychology or language and communication and an emerging track record of research publications. They will have experience of speech and language therapy related linguistics teaching within a higher education institution and a strong commitment to pastoral support and support of academic skills and professional development.

They will have a track record of contribution to research projects and attracting external funding for research (or clear potential to do so), as well as experience of supervising Masters level and/or PhD students (or potential to do so).

The School is strongly committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for gender equality in higher education. The School holds a Silver Award which recognises their good practice in relation to gender; including flexible working arrangements, family-friendly policies, and support to allow staff achieve a good work-life balance. We particularly welcome applications from women for this post. All appointments will be made on merit. For further information, please visit: www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/about/equality

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Blended working arrangements may be considered

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting, and interviews:

Name: Paul Conroy
Email: paul.conroy@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:
Email: People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.