Academic Tutor in Psychology (multiple posts available, full &/or part time)

Full time (37 hours/week) and/or Part time posts available

Fixed term (until 30 June 2027)

Closing date: 05/10/2025 at 23:30

The Role

You will be involved in delivering high quality teaching and providing high quality feedback to Psychology students, supporting our students to succeed on their chosen course.

The position offers the opportunity to enhance both student learning and graduate outcomes through engagement with real-world challenges.

This role will appeal to those passionate about delivering high quality and challenging learning experiences, to enable students to thrive. You will work as part of a team to contribute positively to the student experience.  You will also have the chance to develop professionally in a large, very busy, dynamic Institute.

The Team

You will be joining the Institute of Social Sciences, working closely with a number of course teams across our Psychology programmes of study, addressing current social science issues across a range of areas. Our employment-focused learning community covers many accredited courses, and our thriving applied learning and research culture ensures that students have the opportunity to put theory into practice, develop ideas, test them and apply them.

Sheffield Hallam University’s outstanding support for student success and progression has been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), and overall, 72% of the research submitted by Sheffield Hallam to REF2021 received the prestigious rating of ‘world leading’ (4*) and ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). The real-world impacts of our research have been judged as outstanding, with 78% of our impact assessed as world-leading and internationally excellent.

We offer a diverse range of benefits and opportunities to pursue a rewarding and fulfilling career in a supportive environment.

You will be contractually enrolled into the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) – one of the largest and most generous defined benefit pension schemes in the country.

Find out more about the TPS

If you are, or have been, a recent member of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) directly prior to joining us, you can choose to opt out of the TPS and remain in the USS.   Please contact the Pensions team to discuss options available.

Sheffield Hallam welcomes applications from all candidates irrespective of age, pregnancy and maternity, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief, or marital or civil partnership status.

For this job, we particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic applicants who are underrepresented in this area/ this type of job at Sheffield Hallam.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international applicants in this role; this will depend on a number of factors specific to the individual applicant.

We welcome applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements 

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