Contract Type Permanent
Hours Full Time
Job Type Academic
Salary £41,526 - £51,034 per annum
Vacancy Type Academic / Research Vacancies
Closing Date 26/02/2020
Documents 2899 JD LSL Psychology of Football.pdf
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The School of Sport and Exercise Sciences seeks to strategically develop its world-leading profile of teaching and research excellence by the appointment of high level academics across the core disciplines of Sport and Exercise Sciences. You will be expected to contribute to the academic work of the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences with emphasis on the delivery of Sport Psychology in a Science and Football context. You will also be expected to contribute, through research and teaching, to the discipline of Sport and Exercise Psychology across undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

You will be expected to develop and deliver research-informed/led teaching in Sport and Exercise Psychology within the School’s well-established BSc (Hons) Science and Football programme, and contribute to it’s highly successful Sport and Exercise Psychology curricula at undergraduate, Masters and Professional Doctorate level. You will also be expected to contribute to the supervision and tutorial support of Science and Football students in the School, including pastoral and academic (research and applied placement based learning) guidance.

The post also requires you to extend and enhance the Sport and Exercise Psychology research activity within the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences. In this regard, the emphasis of this post is to extend our world-leading research outputs and impact within the Sport and Exercise Psychology discipline, and its translation via the Football Exchange.

Informal enquires may be made to Professor Dave Richardson, Director of School, email: d.j.richardson@ljmu.ac.uk, Dr Martin Eubank, Subject Head, Psychology, e:mail: m.r.eubank@ljmu.ac.uk and / or Dr. Martin Littlewood, Head of the Football Exchange email m.a.littlewood@ljmu.ac.uk

The School/ department is committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN Gender Equality charter for promoting the career of Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) in higher education. We particularly welcome applications from women for this post and all appointments will be made on merit.

LJMU is committed to achieving equality of opportunity.

Please note all of our vacancies will be closed to applications at midnight on the advertised closing date, unless otherwise stated.