About This Opportunity

Join a world-leading university and help shape the next generation of veterinary professionals. As a Lecturer in Veterinary Science, you will combine your passion for teaching and clinical practice to deliver innovative learning experiences across small animal medicine and surgery.

Working within a collaborative and supportive academic environment, you'll contribute to authentic clinical training, engage with industry-leading veterinary facilities, and make a lasting impact on student success and animal health. At UQ, you'll enjoy the opportunity to advance your academic career while contributing to meaningful work that benefits communities, industry, and the profession.

Key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Deliver high-quality teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate veterinary programs, using innovative and evidence-based approaches in small animal medicine, surgery, and general practice.
• Lead course coordination, curriculum development, assessment design, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure engaging, contemporary learning experiences that meet professional and industry standards.
• Contribute to teaching innovation and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through educational collaborations, pedagogical research, and the dissemination of best practice, while building a developing national profile in veterinary education.
• Support student success through academic mentoring and supervision, maintaining strong engagement with professional, disciplinary, and University teaching priorities.

This is a teaching focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance.

About You

Applicants should possess a degree in Veterinary Science registrable in Queensland.

Additionally, you will demonstrate:

• Extensive experience in clinical veterinary practice, including involvement in small animal, general veterinary practice.
• Evidence of quality teaching at undergraduate, honours and postgraduate level across a variety of settings, including course coordination.
• An emerging profile of teaching impact in the discipline and/or emerging profile in education research in the discipline and/or emerging research profile with high-quality outputs in the discipline.
• Well-developed communication, interpersonal and consultative skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in teaching and learning and clinical service.
• A profile of professional expertise that complements and/or supplements the expertise that currently exists within the School and the broader University.
• A postgraduate research degree (PhD or MPhil) in veterinary science or a related discipline, and/or formal qualifications in tertiary teaching and learning (graduate certificate, diploma, fellowship), are desirable.