Research involves initiating, conducting and disseminating original research. Your research will have measurable outcomes reflected in your growing national (and ideally international) reputation. Members of the School are also active in industrial collaborations based on their research, run professional education or consulting activities and lead start-ups. You are strongly encouraged to pursue such opportunities.
Management and administration involves contributions at Departmental and School level, and/or making an important contribution to managerial/leadership activities (e.g. working groups) within the University or your academic community. This may include developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement, widening participation, schools outreach, or similar activities at Department/School level or further within the University.
Main Duties
Education
You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:
- making a significant contribution to the pedagogical knowledge base of the subject that advances teaching through the enhancement of practice, the development of teaching resources and/or through practice-based research;
- leading on the management and the development of approaches to teaching and learning, including designing innovative approaches to digital resources/environments and supporting colleagues to use them that are innovative to the subject area or institution;
- leading on curriculum design at module and programme level to ensure it is contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging;
- actively engaging students in curriculum design and sharing evidence of “what works”;
- making an impactful, high quality contribution to debates about education policy, methods and practices through internal and external publications, subject societies and conference activity;
Person Specification
- A PhD relevant to the research/teaching area or equivalent PhD-level qualifications
Demonstrated excellence in at least Research, with competence in Learning and Teaching and Management and Administration.
Learning and teaching requirements
An excellent teaching profile and performance in terms of both impact and quality. The teaching quality demonstrated to be informed by an appropriate level of scholarship.
Where appropriate, evidence of success under the following headings:
- High national reputation for the development of teaching and learning excellence within the discipline
- Successful and sustained use of a range of appropriate teaching methods, and assessment strategies that promote high quality learning, including learning that is flexible, distinctive and current and stimulates learners’ natural curiosity
Informal enquiries to Professor Aad van Moorsel, email: a.vanmoorsel@bham.ac.uk
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