Lecturer in Complex Networks (Teaching and Research)

About the Role

The School of Business and Management (SBM) seeks to recruit an outstanding researcher and teacher to a Lectureship in Complex Networks (Teaching & Research). The School’s Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics welcomes applications from scholars focused on empirical research in complex networks, data analytics, economics, innovation, and operational research. In this age of digital innovation and technological, economic, and environmental change, SBM prepares undergraduate and postgraduate students to engage with change and help build a better future.

About You

Applicants should have a completed doctorate and be able to demonstrate the capacity for international-level research achievement and publish at an internationally excellent level. Applicants will be expected to show how their research interests complement those within the Department.

Applicants must provide evidence of their teaching abilities, drawing on both their experience and their research focus. The successful candidates will be expected to contribute to the teaching of quantitative topics within our MSc and undergraduate programmes where we use Python and R. Students on these programmes learn about applications of machine learning and econometrics to business problems. The rapid pace of change in these fields will necessitate frequent updates to teaching materials and content.

About the School of Business and Management, and the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics

The School of Business and Management (SBM) is one of the eight schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The School has been undergoing a period of rapid growth, almost doubling our number of academic staff over the last five years and set to grow even further. We presently have 121 permanent academic staff and a large team of Teaching Fellows and Teaching Assistants. We have over 2,000 undergraduate business studies students and, at the post-graduate level, approximately 1,000 MSc students and a well-established doctoral programme of around 80 students. 

SBM’s core purpose is to promote social justice, sustainability and good governance in the management of private, public and voluntary organisations through our research and education. We are a distinctive School that takes a humanities and social science-led approach to our scholarship and are now the largest school within QMUL’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, with its traditional strengths as a site of critical thinking in the humanities, law, history, geography and politics.

The Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics focuses on solutions to technological, social and environmental challenges through data analysis. Our core value is collegiality. Departmental colleagues are committed to collective excellence in teaching and research in Business Analytics and Applied Economics and respect each other's abilities to work toward that purpose. The Department is research-led, and we publish in peer reviewed journals and monographs of leading university presses. Our research addresses the needs of practitioners across industry and government by applying cutting-edge research methods, focusing on significant technological, social and environmental challenges. Drawing on this work, research-led teaching equips students to respond to challenges based on careful analysis and the application of sound methods and processes. The Department is introducing and growing a range of innovative, exciting new degrees and is seeking colleagues who can contribute to the further development of these degrees.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full time, fixed term until 31 August 2025, with a start date as soon as feasible for the successful candidate. The starting salary will be Grade 5/6 for lecturer, in the range is £45,931 - £56,921 per annum pro rata inclusive of London Allowance.

How to Apply

Your application should include:

• a focused CV of no more than five pages (Lectureship) to include up to one page of evidence teaching quality (for example recent evaluations and teaching awards or other recognition),
• a brief (one page) outline of your research plans for the next three years.

As part of the selection process, you will be asked to present to members of the Department on your research and teaching. Please do not send research papers or evidence of qualifications with your application as these will be requested at a later stage in the process.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Enquiries can be addressed to:

Professor Brigitte Granville, Head of Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics and Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy, b.granville@qmul.ac.uk

Information about the School can be found at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/ and about the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/departments/department-of-business-analytics-and-applied-economics/

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button.

The closing date for applications is 19 April 2023.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.