"Senior Lecturer in Neuroscience"

The role

We seek to appoint an outstanding neuroscientist to join a vibrant and research-intensive school. The post will sit in the newly created School of Psychology and Neuroscience (name TBC). Candidates must have an excellent track record of publishing and grant capture and a background in relevant teaching in higher education. We particularly welcome applicants with a research background in mechanisms underlying mental health disorders and their treatment, adding to our strengths in brain plasticity and cognition, pain, biological rhythms and sleep. We encourage ‘big data’ or ‘Population Neuroscience’ approaches enabling integration of multi-scale biological insights into brain mechanisms and function in the context of inter-individual variability and societal, familial, or age-dependent experience.

We are committed to equality of opportunities for all and a selection process based on merit. We welcome applications from all and would encourage applications from women and people from a minority ethnic background and LGBTQIA+ communities.

What will you be doing?

Working in a collegial and supportive school, you will be publishing high quality research in international journals, submitting grants to develop your research programme and support a research team (including postgraduate research students, and researchers). You will make a positive contribution to research culture in the School and the University and will maximise the impact of your research with external partners.

You will teach across postgraduate and undergraduate programmes. Teaching duties include developing and organising units, assessment setting and marking, and student supervision (both research projects and personal tutoring).

You will have a school administrative role commensurate with your pathway and level and contribute positively to our community and running of the school.

You should apply if

You are committed to the highest academic standards, are aware of culturally inclusive teaching, committed to open science and best-practice in pedagogy. You can engage enthusiastically and effectively with professional and academic staff and work independently to organise your own schedule.

You have a track record of publishing in international journals, capturing grant income, and supervising students and colleagues as well as experience of teaching and organising teaching and assessment. You should have the ability to develop and grow an independent team to support and sustain your research programme.

Additional information

Further information

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact: Name: Professor Clea Warburton, Head of School psychneuro-hos@bristol.ac.uk Or alternatively: Dr Paul Chadderton, Associate Professor in Neurophysiology, E-mail: p.chadderton@bristol.ac.uk

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Thursday 5th February 2026.

It is expected that the final selection process will be held in early March.

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.