Northumbria University’s Department of Psychology is seeking applications from excellent candidates whose research complements or builds upon our existing strengths, and who possess the skills and abilities to develop our distance learning activity in line with the University strategy. Within our Occupational and Organisational Psychology team, we have interest and expertise in bullying, careers and wellbeing research and consultancy. The departments further research clusters are Cognition & Neuroscience, Evolution & Social Interaction, and Health & Wellbeing.

You will provide expertise in occupational and organisational psychology to further enhance research, teaching and entrepreneurial activities. As a senior Academic colleague, you will assist the Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor to maintain, enhance and improve the University’s national and international reputation in your academic field. You must demonstrate continuing academic attainment and achievement and provide academic leadership (of your subject and associated colleagues), through active contribution to your discipline and to the life and work of the Faculty and the wider University. This will include contributing to significant change within practice, the discipline, profession and/or community at regional, national and international level.

To be successful in this role you will have externally recognised research outputs of a quality that are internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and demonstrable success in securing research funding. You should also demonstrate academic leadership experience and strong standing with external bodies and networks in your field.  Ideally, you will be a Registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (or willing to work towards this) and be able to supervise Doctoral level qualifications which may include PhD, Professional Doctorate or BPS Stage Two Occupational Psychology Trainees.

Our popular Psychology courses cater to a vibrant student community of around 200 Foundation Year, 1000 Undergraduates, including a Business Psychology pathway, and 150 postgraduate students. We currently deliver BPS accredited campus-based and distance learning MSc Occupational and Organisational Psychology programmes. The Department actively works with all academic staff to ensure teaching activity does not come at the expense of research time, and promotes engagement with sabbaticals to facilitate the development of grant submissions and collaborative projects.

For informal enquiries about this post please contact Dr Mark Moss or Dr Vicki Elsey (mark.moss@northumbria.ac.uk vicki.elsey@northumbria.ac.uk).

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit a covering letter, CV including research /education statements, and grants and publications list. Please highlight your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of 4. In addition, candidates are asked to provide copies of the top 2 research outputs (Journal / book chapter /practice-based portfolio). Where possible candidates are asked to combine all of these documents into a single file.

Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers.

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about the Relocation Assistance Scheme

Please note this vacancy will close on 13/02/2022