11 Oct
Queen Mary University of London
London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Job description
Overview
About the role
As the School continues to grow, we seek to appoint an enthusiastic Lecturer in Infectious Disease Biology who will develop and deliver high-quality and engaging education, primarily on our undergraduate programmes.
There is great potential for career advancement in this Teaching and Scholarship focused role. The successful candidate will join the Biochemistry Department and will integrate into a dynamic academic team, striving to modernise our delivery of educational activities.
We are a dedicated and collaborative department that supports personal and professional development.
About You
We seek a dedicated professional with expertise in infectious disease biology and related areas.
The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to mentoring students and developing educational modules and programmes centred on skills acquisition and employability.
They will be confident in engaging with and training students using modern educational approaches. The successful candidate must have appropriate subject knowledge and ability to teach at any level within the area of expertise and across a range of subjects at a more introductory level.
They should also have an excellent academic background with a relevant PhD in Microbiology or Infection Science and / or relevant professional qualification and / or equivalent professional experience.
About the School
The School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences is a large and expanding academic unit, which provides a supportive and friendly environment and encourages interdisciplinary research.
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, 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 including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
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.