Programme Lead (SUStech)
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB) & Shenzhen
- Closing date
- 4 Dec 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Biological Sciences, Life sciences
- Job Type
- Academic Posts, Other Academic
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Please note that this is for expressions of interest only
King’s College London (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx) is one of the world’s top 20 universities. It is part of King’s Health Partners, the UK’s largest Academic Health Sciences Centre, in partnership with 3 leading NHS Foundation Trusts: Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and the South London and Maudsley. King’s is one of the most successful higher education institutes in attracting funding from the National Institute for Health Research.
The Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) (https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/) was established in 2011 by the provincial government of Guangdong, China with the aim of developing a new type of tertiary education and becoming a world-class research university. It is located in the rapidly-growing tech capital city of Shenzhen. The Times Higher Education 2021 survey ranked SUSTech among the Top Ten universities in mainland China.
The Joint School of Medicine (JSM) is an ambitious project between King’s and SUSTech to establish a world-class Joint Education Institute in Shenzhen, China. The purpose of the JSM is to develop innovative, world-class joint education programmes in a number of fields including (initially) degrees in Medicine, Biomedical Science and Biomedical Engineering. It will also seek to engage with high-tech and med-tech industry in southern China and Hong Kong to generate pedagogical and curriculum advances.
The Opportunity:
King’s College London is seeking academic candidates to act as Programme Leads on the three new JSM programmes. Successful candidates will spend 4-6 months at King’s College London developing educational materials and methods before starting teaching duties on the SUSTech campus for a period of two years. Appointments will be on the King’s Academic Education Pathway (AEP) that allows career progression to Professor based upon contribution to education and scholarship. Staff on the AEP have an indicative 20% of time available to engage in education-focused scholarship.
Requirements of the Post:
Candidates must have a PhD in the biosciences, outstanding educator skills at levels 4 – 7 in the biosciences or pre-clinical medicine, and experience of module development and/or module/programme leadership. A relevant qualification in higher education e.g. PGCAP is desirable.
We are particularly interested in candidates able to teach undergraduate biomedical engineering, pharmacology, medical genetics, and pre-clinical medicine alongside making contributions to transferable skills training, but we are open to applications from all areas of the biomedical sciences.
Contact Information:
Informal enquires should be made to Dr Nicki Cohen in the first instance: nicki.cohen@kcl.ac.uk
Company
King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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