Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Fundamental Neuroscience

UWE Bristol’s School of Applied Sciences has a fantastic opportunity for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Fundamental Neuroscience support our undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) biological and biomedical science courses.  You’ll deliver excellence in teaching on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, together with other related academic roles, including module leadership, and supervision of student projects.

We run BSc (Honours), MSci and MSc programmes including in Biomedical Science, Biological Science, Forensic Science, and related areas. Research within the School is supported by the Centre for Biomedical Research (CBR), the Institute of Biosensing Technology (IBST) and the Science Communication Unit (SCU). These centres offer you access to the latest world class facilities and expertise to continue to develop your career.

You’ll have a PhD in a relevant subject aligned to this area and ideally, you can evidence excellence and expertise in fundamental Neuroscience teaching and research, as well as experience of supporting undergraduate and postgraduate research projects in a higher education context.

You will contribute to teaching and assessing on our highly popular Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology module, which contributes to our Biomedical, Biological science and Forensics programs.

Other physiology and non-physiology teaching contributions will also be sought depending on the expertise of the post holder, but may include, patient diagnostics and monitoring, regenerative medicine and developmental biology, pharmacology, cell biology, human anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology as examples.

You can demonstrate experience of devising and delivering stimulating teaching and inclusive assessments; you’re able to lead modules well and successfully supervise student research projects. You’ll contribute to the continuous improvement of our Biomedical and Biological programmes and you may also be required to support teaching teams on other related programmes within our School.

We are looking for someone who aligns to the UWE values. You’re experienced in leading and motivating groups of people, demonstrate collegiate working and good organisational skills, as well as an appreciation of the value that diversity brings to the student body and workforce.  You’ll keep abreast of latest developments in this subject area and external best practice benchmarks, and to contribute to equality, diversity and inclusivity and employability initiatives as required.

Why UWE Bristol?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits

We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

If you would like an informal discussion please contact:

Dr Victoria Davenport (Victoria.davenport@uwe.ac.uk or

Dr Lyn Newton (Lyn.Newton@uwe.ac.uk), Head of School.

This is a fixed-term post for 2 years, and is part-time, working on a 0.4 FTE contract.

This post is not available on a job share basis.

This role is campus based with the opportunity to work from home with agreement from your people manager.

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route.

UWE Bristol does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

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