Faculty of Engineering and Environment

City Campus, Newcastle

You will be based in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering and Environment. The Department is located in a new £7m purposefully designed building, at the heart of our campus in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, and has research strengths in AI and machine learning, networks and cyber security, HCI and social computing, data science and information systems. High quality applicants who can strengthen one or more of these areas are encouraged to apply. Additionally we are keen to hear from applicants with interest, expertise and experience in the following areas: software engineering, cloud computing, data science, web science, robotics, and visual computing. We particularly encourage applicants who are working at the intersection(s) between computing and other disciplines.

You must hold a relevant first degree and it is desirable that you should be either qualified, or soon to be qualified, to Doctoral level in a relevant discipline and have a strong research publication record commensurate with your experience. Proven ability to deliver high quality teaching is essential. Membership (or eligibility for membership) of a relevant professional body is desirable.

For informal enquiries about this post, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Shaun Lawson, shaun.lawson@northumbria.ac.uk.

To apply for this vacancy please click ‘Apply Now’, and submit acovering letter, 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 1st January 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.

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 19/01/2020