Associate Professor in Finance

Newcastle Business School is double AACSB accredited and Times Higher Education award winning with an outstanding reputation in the delivery of research informed applied programmes.  Our Accounting and Financial Management Department is particularly proud of its separate AACSB accounting accreditation, its commitment to an applied research agenda and the levels of student satisfaction on its programmes. 

As a Senior Academic colleague, you will assist the Faculty Pro-Vice Chancellor and the Head of Department 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. 

This position will support research in the area of finance and financial management, so a good knowledge in the area of financial management and risk assessment is essential, therefore applications from candidates with experience in these areas are particularly welcome. 

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Janusz Brzeszczynski via email at janusz.brzeszczynski@northumbria.ac.uk or Professor Ignazio Cabras at ignazio.cabras@northumbria.ac.uk.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit a Covering Letter and your CV, including a full list of publications where relevant and any documents specifically requested in the Role Description and Person Specification, such as a sample of written work or journal article. 

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.

Please note this vacancy will close on 19/07/2020