Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Nutrition & Health (Permanent)

The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

Maynooth University is now undertaking a major expansion in the area of food and nutrition to include additional undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and strengthening our research activities in the general thematic area of health.  We will have an initial focus on the nutritional impact of food and the future development of food products as a complement to health and well-being.   

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the broad area of human nutrition and health.   We are particularly interested in those with expertise in any of the following areas: metabolism and food, food biochemistry, nutrition, and gender-specific health mechanisms or the nutritional consequences of microbiome composition. However, all areas of human nutrition and health are welcome.

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance, and generate publications of international standard.

Principal Responsibilities

Teaching:

Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching duties are assigned by the Head of the Department. The duties will include:

• Teaching and assessing students at undergraduate level. This may include lecturing, tutoring, leading practical learning activities, project supervision, and setting, supervising and grading assessments;
• Teaching, supervising and assessing postgraduate students, including lecturing, leading seminars and other learning activities, supervision of student research activities, and setting, supervising and grading assessments;
• Enhancing and innovating in teaching and assessment practice;
• Contributing as required, to the assurance and enhancement of teaching quality;
• Outreach and promotional activities and the recruitment and selection of undergraduate and post-graduate students;
• Developing and enhancing the curriculum;
• Designing and delivering of new courses.

For further details including full comprehensive job description please see reference number 026261 on the Maynooth University vacancies page at: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies

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