Lecturer in Psychology

The role

School of Psychological Science are seeking to appoint a fixed-term academic on a 2-year contract. The successful candidate will join a growing team of academics, with a particular focus on delivering core undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supporting students through personal tutoring, and project supervision. Applicants with a teaching/research background in human developmental psychology research are particularly encouraged to apply.

Hybrid working is available: Our programmes are taught in person and on campus, you would be expected to be on campus for all student-facing activities. Typically, staff in the school are on campus a few days a week, but this varies substantially, we normally expect a minimum of one day on campus per week, but this would vary depending on teaching commitments.

What will you be doing?

You will contribute to the planning, delivery, and support of teaching across our programmes. The main purpose will be to provide the highest quality support for students and staff through teaching, tutorial support, administrative support, marking, and taking on special administrative projects to enhance our curriculum and student experience. The post This will involve teaching and administration on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, specifically one developmental psychology topics, but additional teaching may be required on general psychological topics.

You should apply if

You are a highly motivated individual who shares our passion for innovative and inclusive teaching and a compassionate approach to mentoring students. We are keen to invite individuals to apply with experience of successfully supporting a diverse range of students and is keen to participate in pedagogical research.  

You must have:

• Experience teaching and supporting students in an academic setting. 
• Have the ability and enthusiasm to engage effectively with professional and academic staff and work independently to organise your own schedule. 
• You can demonstrate knowledge of culturally inclusive teaching practice, have experience teaching developmental psychology, or a related discipline.  

We value the diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences that fuel our culture of curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. We especially encourage applicants from groups traditionally underrepresented in our field to apply. All appointments will be evaluated solely on merit. 

Additional information

Contract type: Fixed-term contract until 31/07/2028 (cover position)

Work pattern: Full time, 100% time

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 07/06/2026

For informal queries please contact: Prof Christopher Kent, c.kent@bristol.ac.uk

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