Resource Creator & Designer

About the Role

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Missing Elements report (2022) has identified a structural barrier in the recruitment, retention and progression of students from ethnic minority groups in the chemical sciences, especially on to PhD studies and positions of seniority.

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), in a consortium with Imperial College London and the University of Greenwich University (UoG), have been awarded funding under the RSC Missing Element Grant Scheme (MEGS) to address this by making the chemical sciences UG curricula more inclusive through highlighting minorities in chemistry that we hope will inspire students, especially those from an ethnic minority background, to aim higher.

We are now in the third and final year of the project and are looking for a talented and creative person to work with us, initially for 6-months (full-time, 35 h / week), to help in the creation of additional educational resources in the form of 2nd generation 1-min videos of scientists from under-represented groups using software such as DaVinci Resolve, OBS streaming, Adobe Podcast and 11 Labs, curate our inclusive chemical sciences curriculum web site and help in new resource creation especially focusing on contemporary scientists and alumni.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The School of Physical and Chemical Sciences (SPCS) at Queen Mary University of London is a large, multidisciplinary and research-intensive school within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. While it is built around the core disciplines of Physics, Astronomy, and Chemistry, it also incorporates data science, reflecting a growing emphasis on computational and data-driven approaches across science.

The School has a diverse and active community, with over 900 undergraduate students, more than 100 postgraduate taught students, around 115 postgraduate researchers, and approximately 150 academic and professional staff. It fosters a highly collaborative culture, working across faculties and with industry partners and external stakeholders.

SPCS is primarily based at the Mile End campus, with facilities in the G.O. Jones and J. Priestley buildings that include advanced laboratories, workshops, and shared study and social spaces.

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.

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