Lecturer in Dental Hygiene and Therapy

About You
The Lecturer will contribute to the intellectual life of the Institute and wider institution. They will make contributions to student education and experience through curriculum development and the delivery of teaching activities in the subject area of dental hygiene-therapy, with the assistance of the other Dental Therapy/Hygiene teaching staff. To contribute to the organisation, delivery and assessment of teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students within the school.

About the Role
The Lecturer will achieve this by:

• Delivering high quality teaching including making innovations in key aspects of teaching and learning.
• Contributing to the administration of key university activities.
• Maximising opportunities for public engagement in the subject.
• Making important pedagogical contributions to the field.
• Advancing pedagogical knowledge through publications or other forms of scholarship or performance.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Institute of Dentistry has been conducting internationally recognised research in oral and dental sciences in Whitechapel for more than a century and is consistently rated in the top 20 QS Dental School rankings. The IoD research environment is considered as excellent (4*) as assessed in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Furthermore, the IoD research structure provides a seamless pathway for translational and clinical research. IoD has a long and proud history of providing internationally renowned taught programmes and currently offers two undergraduate programmes and 19 Post graduate taught programmes which include eight specialty training programmes in most dental disciplines, with a combined cohort of c500 students. In 2014 we opened the first new dental school and hospital in the UK for 40 years, the stunning £78m Royal London Dental Hospital, incorporating some of the most technologically advanced dental facilities in the country. Furthermore, we have invested 1.8 million in haptic technology, with 42 Simodont haptic dental trainers the most simulators in the world, with dedicated space and staff to support this type of enhanced learning.

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.

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