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Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Global Public Health and Policy

Employer
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD)
Location
Dublin, Leinster (IE)
Salary
€62,855 - €99,533 Per Annum
Closing date
21 Feb 2025
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Applications are sought for Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Global Public Health and Policy within the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences.

The UCD Schools of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems (SNMHS), and Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science (SPHPSS) have a strong tradition of delivering exceptional education and impactful research with the aim of promoting health and wellbeing for people worldwide. Both Schools are research-intensive with diverse teaching and research interests across a range of health related fields. They deliver a number of accredited programmes and are committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate education and research supervision. These programmes prepare students to be expert and compassionate clinicians and professionals, cutting-edge researchers and dynamic, networked leaders. Each School has been awarded the Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

This position seeks to attract a health professional with a distinct global health community profile, demonstrable expertise in addressing public health challenges that transcend national and regional boundaries, and experience collaborating with governmental and non-governmental organizations. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of future public health leaders and will address pressing global health challenges through interdisciplinary collaboration and research.

95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above the Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €62,855 - €99,533 Per Annum
Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on the 21st February 2025.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

Please note: the eRecruitment system only requests the names of two referees. The full list of 3 referees should be included in the text of your application.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CVs submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

Note: Hours of work for academic staff are those as prescribed under Public Service Agreements. For further information please follow the link; https://www.ucd.ie/hr/t4media/Academic Contract.pdf

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Ireland's Global University with over 160 Years of Education. 

UCD is one of Europe's leading research-intensive universities; an environment where undergraduate education, masters and PhD training, research, innovation and community engagement form a dynamic spectrum of activity.
 
As Ireland's largest university, with its great strength and diversity of disciplines, UCD embraces its role to contribute to the flourishing of Ireland through the study of people, society, business, economy, culture, languages and the creative arts, as well as through research and innovation. 
 
Tackling Global Challenges: Research and Innovation at UCD
Research and innovation are essential drivers of a dynamic economy, an informed society and a vibrant culture. The spectrum of research and innovation at UCD encompasses individual scholars, research groups, start-up companies and large-scale collaborations with industry and other partners. Research is conducted within each of the University's extensive range of disciplines, and in multidisciplinary research programmes addressing challenges of global scale.
In 2022/23 UCD researchers secured €161 million in research grants from national and international funding agencies, companies and foundations. Since 2012/13 UCD researchers have secured over €1.3 billion in such grants. Their research underpins national research and technology institutes and centres, including the SFI funded Insight Data Analytics, Food Health Ireland, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), CeADAR Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence, BiOrbic, Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre, I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre and NexSys (Next Generation Energy Systems). UCD is the national leader in winning European Union research funding.
 
Over the last decade UCD researchers have increased their annual number of papers in the international literature by 62% and have authored more than 40,000 papers in total. These papers are cited by other researchers at a rate that is 74% above the world average. In addition, 62% of the papers were co-authored with institutions in other countries/regions, underlining UCD’s role as Ireland’s global university.
As Ireland's leader in innovation, technology transfer and commercialisation, UCD's commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship recognises the importance of active participation and collaboration to exploit leading-edge research and development outputs. Supports for innovation include NovaUCD – the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs, NexusUCD – the Industry Partnership Centre and the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at UCD Lyons Farm. Since 2003 UCD has provided support to over 550 companies and early-stage ventures through the services and supports provided across the university, through NovaUCD, and through business support programmes run and managed by NovaUCD.
 
Excellence in research and innovation that delivers strong and meaningful impact is central to all we do in University College Dublin.
 
UCD is a community of world class academics making fundamental discoveries with real, far-reaching impact for people and our planet.
 
 
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Location
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DUBLIN 4
Ireland

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