Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Mental Health

About the Role

We invite applications for positions at Lecturer and Senior Lecturer level within the Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading interdisciplinary centre with a growing portfolio of research and teaching across the life span. Our work spans mental health, primary care, geriatrics, neurology, and public health, addressing national priorities, such as the NHS Ten Year Health Plan. We host the NIHR Dementia and Neurodegeneration Policy Research Unit (DeNPRU-QM), the Alzheimer’s Society Doctoral Training Centre, and the UKRI Mental Health Research Hub.

About You

You should be committed to developing internationally excellent research in mental health and delivering high-quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As a team player, you will contribute to QMUL’s research and teaching strategy, lead funding applications, and meet University of London academic standards, with established contributions through publications, research, teaching, and administration.

All candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching and supervising graduate students.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offers international excellence in research and teaching, and supports clinical service for a population of unrivalled ethnic diversity in East London and the wider Thames Gateway.  At the forefront of medical research and education, with research themes in cancer, cardiovascular medicine, inflammation, trauma and population health, the Faculty is ranked 2nd in the 2021 QS World University rankings for research citations and consistently positioned first in London for subject rankings and student satisfaction. 

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.

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.

The post is based at the Whitechapel Campus in London. It is full time (35 hours per week), permanent appointment, with an expected start date of January 2026. The starting salary will be Grade 5 through 6 for lecturer and Grade 7 for Senior Lecturer, in the range of £51,755 - £60,901 per annum for Lecturer and £64,331 - £71,834 per annum for Senior Lecturer per annum inclusive of London Allowance.

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