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Teaching Fellow, - Ref:1634927
UCL Department / DivisionPsychology and Language Sciences
Grade7
Hours Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£37,936 - £41,163 per annum
Duties and Responsibilities
The Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, within the Faculty of Brain Science, wishes to appoint a new Teaching Fellow to support its MSci programmes (MSci Psychology and MSci Psychology and Language Sciences). These are a new programmes now recruiting for 2017-18. The programmes will run in parallel, sharing teaching and administration. Students will opt to take either the Research route (based in a research lab within the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) or the Applied Route (based on an external placement). The post provides the exciting opportunity to be involved from the outset in programme development.
The successful applicant will be expected to develop, deliver and assess a new module ‘Behavioural Research in Applied Settings’, to be delivered to students on MSci Psychology and MSci Psychology and Language Sciences. They may also be responsible for co-developing and teaching a new ‘Applied Statistics’ module sometime in the future. The postholder will play a leadership role in relation to oversight and monitoring of placements, for liason with placement providers, and will provide supervision of applied research projects. In addition, the postholder will develop, deliver and assess teaching on the undergraduate programmes BSc Psychology and BSc Psychology and Language Sciences as required and within their area(s) of expertise. The post holder needs to have experience in, and be able to teach, quantitative as well as qualitative research methods and statistics.
They will be expected to spend approximately 80% of their time on teaching or teaching related activities and approximately 20% of their time on a range of teaching-related research, course promotional and administrative duties. These percentages are indicative only and may evolve during the contract.
This post starts on 1st September 2017.
Key Requirements
The successful candidate must have a PhD in Psychology. The successful candidate must have experience of teaching and research in applied psychology, and assessment of student work. The post-holder should also have excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
Further Details
A job description and person speciation can be accessed at the bottom of this page. To apply for this vacancy please click on the "Apply now" button below.
Informal enquiries can be made to the Programme Directors, Dr Chris Donlan ( c.donlan@ucl.ac.uk ) or Dr Gorkan Ahmetoglu ( g.ahmetoglu@ucl.ac.uk ). If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Sonia Theodoric ( s.theodoric@ucl.ac.uk )
Further information about the research department of Experimental Psychology can be found here:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/
UCL Taking Action for Equality
Closing Date19 Apr 2017
Interview dateweek beginning the 1st May
Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and success in addressing gender equality.
This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Support Staff.
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Job Description and Person Specification
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