KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Lecturer in Psychology and/or Neuroscience

About us

The IoPPN is a College of King’s Faculty London and the biggest educational community in Europe dedicated to the examine and prevention of psychological sickness and mind illness.  It produces extra extremely cited outputs (high 1% citations) on psychiatry and psychological health than every other centre (SciVal 2021), and on this metric has risen from sixteenth (2014) to 4th (2021) on this planet for extremely cited neuroscience outputs. Within the 2021 Analysis Excellence Framework (REF), 90% of research on the IoPPN was deemed ‘world main’ or ‘internationally glorious’ (3* and 4*). The IoPPN’s best energy is the interdisciplinary nature of each its research strategy and academic actions, offering distinctive alternatives for college kids and employees.

In regards to the position

That is an thrilling alternative for 2 Lecturers to affix the newly established BSc in Neuroscience and Psychology and develop into a part of a thriving educational community on the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s Faculty London. The IoPPN presently runs two very profitable BSc programmes in Psychology and in Neuroscience and Psychology, each accredited by the British Psychological Society.

We’re in search of enthusiastic and devoted colleagues who could make a particular contribution to research-led education. You must have glorious teaching and communication skills, be capable of encourage and inform college students, and be dedicated to excellence in scholar expertise.

We’re significantly interested by recruiting colleagues with a background in Psychology and Neuroscience who’ve developed experience in theoretical/computational neuroscience, computational psychiatry, cognitive/methods/medical neuroscience or developmental/particular person variations psychology.

The post-holders will play a job within the growth and supply of an progressive curriculum that spans and integrates Neuroscience and Psychology. A key focus of the programme is to equip our UG college students with the information and expertise, together with coding, required for the clear and reproducible utility of quantitative information evaluation in neuroscience and psychology.

The posts will sit throughout the Division of Neuroimaging on the Denmark Hill campus on the IoPPN and the postholders can be working carefully with colleagues throughout different Departments, together with the Division of Psychology. King’s additionally welcomes hybrid working, and lots of educational employees select to earn a living from home for as much as three days every week when not required to be on campus for teaching or different conferences.

The appointment can be made at Lecturer stage both on the Training (60%) & Analysis (40%) (E&R) or on the Educational Training Pathway (AEP). Within the E&R pathway, the postholder is anticipated to exhibit engagement in high-quality research exercise and a growing research profile, as evidenced by a observe report of publications together with publications assembly a Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) commonplace of three* or increased, a transparent publication plan, and/or earlier success in research funding purposes. Within the AEP the first contribution is to education (80% of position) and secondary contribution to scholarship which is primarily education-focused (20%). The AEP contract is concentrated on the supply of education, education-related scholarship, and management in education. The next expectations are related to the AEP: teaching, supervision, scholar assist, educational leadership and innovation, education-related research and administration. Promotion is feasible all through the Educational Training Pathway, as much as the extent of Professor (Training).

Each posts can be supplied on a full-time (35 hours per week), indefinite contracts.

About you

To achieve success on this position, we’re in search of candidates to have the next expertise and expertise:

Important standards

1. First diploma in Psychology (2:1 or above) and PhD in Psychology or Neuroscience.
2. Experience in a number of of the important thing areas: theoretical/computational neuroscience; computational psychiatry; cognitive/methods/medical neuroscience; developmental/particular person variations psychology.
3. Monitor report and dedication to innovation in teaching and evaluation, and expertise in delivering prime quality UG research-led education in a number of settings and codecs, together with lecture, small group, digital and/or blended studying. 
4. Expertise in supervision of ultimate 12 months UG tasks and within the assist and steering of UG college students.
5. A observe report of publications together with publications assembly the Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) commonplace of three* or increased. 
6. Expertise in writing aggressive funding purposes to a spread of research organisations or to assist education centered research. 
7. Proof of wonderful scholar suggestions on teaching and supervision.
8. Demonstrable (e.g. by publication report) expertise in utilizing quantitative information evaluation strategies, present clear research practices, programming for information evaluation and simulation (primarily in MATLAB, Python and R). 

Fascinating standards

1. Increased Training teaching qualification (e.g. PGCAPHE).
2. Being a group participant capable of have interaction actively with college students and colleagues and contribute to the management and administration of the programme.

Downloading a replica of our Job Description

Full particulars of the position and the talents, information and expertise required will be discovered within the Job Description doc, supplied on the backside of the following web page after you click on “Apply Now”. This doc will present info of what standards can be assessed at every stage of the recruitment course of.

Additional info

We delight ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace variety and wish everybody to really feel that they belong and are linked to others in our community.

We’re dedicated to working with our employees and unions on these and different points, to proceed to assist our individuals and to develop a various and inclusive tradition at King’s.

We ask all candidates to submit a replica of their CV, and a supporting assertion, detailing how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a robust discipline of candidates, we might use the fascinating standards to decide on our closing shortlist, so please embody your proof in opposition to these the place doable.

To learn the way our managers will assessment your utility, please check out our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.

We’re capable of provide sponsorship for candidates who don’t presently possess the appropriate to work within the UK.