Professor

Salary: Professors - Band 3 (£87,089 - £95,624 p.a. pro rata)

Location: Brackenhurst Campus 

Professor within the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences

Salary commensurate with experience, between £67,735 and £95,624 per annum

We are a small and friendly School, and pride ourselves on the diligence and enthusiasm of our teams. Our staff have a genuine passion for their subjects and are active researchers or practitioners, committed to helping students realise their ambitions.

We are a School that has dramatically increased our research reputation and recognition, including through our achievements in the most recent UK Research Excellence Framework. We offer huge potential for research and have grand ambitions for the future. Our campus provides for a wide range of opportunities – with well equipped new laboratories, a working farm, large estate for fieldwork, and significant investment in our facilities and equipment. This is exciting opportunity for those wishing to be part of a team addressing the many challenges we face within animal, rural and environmental sciences. It’s a challenge we’re excited about, and one that we hope inspires you.

About You

We are seeking to appoint a Professor whose work is aligned to at least one of our School strengths in sustainable agriculture and food production, animal health, managing landscapes, and / or ecology and conservation. Your research will help us achieve our School vision of empowering staff and students to have positive impact on our planet, through improving the health and wellbeing of environments, animals, plants and people.

You will be a highly-cited researcher, with a proven track record of attracting funding from sources in the UK or internationally. Your work will have impact and you will share our ambition to make a difference in the real world. Joining a friendly and collegiate School, you will be commitment to developing new partnerships through your research.

Applications should accompanied by a covering letter describing briefly how you meet the criteria outlined in the person specification, why the appointment is of interest and what you believe you can bring to the role.

Enquiries may be made directly to the Associate Dean of Research of the School of Animal Rural and Environmental Sciences , via email to: andrew.hirst@ntu.ac.uk

About Us

Our business is nature: specifically, the environment, animal health and welfare, ecology and conservation, and agriculture and food production. That covers everything from biodiversity and agri-tech, to nutrition and climate change.

We undertake teaching and research in a range of land-based disciplines at NTU’s dedicated 200-hectare estate at our Brackenhurst Campus. This campus has a proud professional heritage, having delivered courses in these subject areas for over 70 years. Today we’re firmly focused on developing graduates with 21st century skills, scientific knowledge and experience, and increasing our research and its reach.

Whilst this role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Route, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position.  Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa for more information.

Find out more at Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences | Nottingham Trent University

Closing Date: Friday 28th April

Interview Dates

1st Stage: Friday 19th May

2nd Stage: Wednesday 24th May

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