Lecturer in Computer Science - 15056

College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences

The Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London is seeking to recruit Lecturers in Computer Science who can contribute to teaching and research within our successful and supportive department. The Department of Computer Science holds an Athena Swan Bronze award and is keen to further increase the proportion of women in the department.

Brunel’s Computer Science department offers undergraduate programmes in Computer Science and Business Computing and postgraduate taught programmes in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science & Analytics and Digital Service (UX) Design. Successful candidates will play a substantial role in the delivery of teaching across one or more of these programmes and provide specialist support for final-year projects and/or masters dissertations. The department welcomes applicants with teaching expertise relevant to any area of our programme curricula.

Research in Computer Science at Brunel is internationally recognised, Our research is ranked 3rd by discipline in the UK by performance ranking of scientific papers and 1st for H-index (NTU, 2022).

Our department has particular strengths within the following research areas:

• Computing Methodologies (Intelligent data analysis, AI, simulation and modelling)
• Human Centred Computing (HCI and interactive multimedia systems)
• Software Engineering
• Computational Biology

The successful appointee will have the potential to contribute high quality research that enhances at least one of above departmental research areas, through journal publication, research income generation and engagement with stakeholders.

The department strongly supports interdisciplinarity and a number of university-wide research centres provide exciting opportunities to work collaboratively on key societal challenges. Computer Science staff will also benefit from co-location with the university’s new Artificial Intelligence Living Lab which is being developed to provide world class facilities, bringing together computer scientists, health scientists, social scientists and engineers.

Working at Brunel offers the following benefits:

• Campus environment in west London, close to Heathrow airport and major transport hubs, with onsite health and fitness facilities, shops, cafes and hotel.
• Reduced teaching load for probationary staff during the first two years of appointment with support to develop teaching and research skills.
• 30 days of annual leave plus public holidays and university closure dates (currently 12 days additional days in total).
• Family friendly policies.
• Rewards programme including awards for excellence and access to a range of discounts.

Informal enquiries regarding this post should be made to the Head of Computer Science, Professor Kate Hone by email to kate.hone@brunel.ac.uk

Closing date for applications: 22nd February 2023

For further details about the post including the Job Description and Person Specification and to apply please visit https://careers.brunel.ac.uk

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