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Lecturer in Global Mental Health

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£52,874 - £61,921 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
20 Feb 2025
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Academic Discipline
Social Sciences
Job Type
Academic Posts, Lecturers / Assistant Professors
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

About Us

We’re inviting applications for a Lecturer to join our team in the Centre for Global Mental Health (CGMH), to lead the delivery of the Global Mental Health programme and to develop their academic career. The Centre is part of the Health Service and Population Research Department within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London.

About the role

We invite applications from high-potential individuals with a promising early career. The ideal candidate will have a good publication record, successful grant applications, and a commitment to excellence in teaching and administration. The Lecturer in Global Mental Health will be programme and academic lead for the MSc in Global Mental Health, responsible for delivering consistently excellent educational provision and student experience. As an academic they will be expected to apply for grants and manage their research activities, including the line management of researchers. They will be expected to write and contribute to publications in high impact scientific journals and to disseminate research and generate impact.

 

This is a full time contract (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

 

Essential criteria

  1. PhD qualified in subject area related to global mental health 
  2. Knowledge and understanding of the UK higher education system 
  3. Experience of delivering excellent teaching and assessment for postgraduate and/or undergraduate students, in person and/or online 
  4. An established record of securing grant applications and a clear plan for future research career 
  5. Evidence of high-quality published research 
  6. Experience of supervising dissertations for undergraduate, Masters’ and/or doctoral students  
  7. Ability to work effectively in a team and build national and international research collaborations 
  8. Direct experience of conducting research in low or middle-income countries 
  9. Highly effective verbal and written communication skills, to convey conceptual and complex ideas and information, alongside good organisational and administrative skills.

Desirable criteria

  1. Higher Education accreditation/qualification (e.g., Advance HE Fellowship or PGCAPHE).  
  2. A commitment to ongoing professional development in education practice  
  3. Experience of providing pastoral support and guidance to postgraduate and undergraduate students. 
  4. Ability to contribute to the Department’s teaching strategy. 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

 

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

 

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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