The Faculty of Engineering and Environment is passionate about the principles and applications of Science and Technology in all its forms and strives to be excellent in research, teaching and innovation.

Working within the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, you will provide expertise in an area of Architecture to further enhance research, teaching and entrepreneurial activities. The department has particular strengths in Building Information Modelling/Digital Construction, People and Place, Practice Based Design and Sustainable Construction Technology & Process.

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.  

We are currently seeking to strengthen and consolidate our existing activity in this area. In particular, we are seeking candidates with expertise in Architecture or Interior Architecture to support research and enterprise activity, specifically within design education, design practice, creative reuse, building adaptation, dwelling, sustainability and well-being.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, please contact Dr Simon Robson, Head of Department: simon.robson@northumbria.ac.uk

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now', and submit a Covering Letter and your CV, including research / education statements, and grants and publications list. Please highlight your highest quality research outputs (please indicate a rank from 1 to 5) up to a maximum of 5, since 1January 2014.  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.

Please note this vacancy will close on 03/11/2019