Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity in Adults/Older Adults - Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, Bristol
The School for Policy Studies wishes to appoint an ambitious academic to join the Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences (ENHS) as a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (depending on the experience and calibre of the successful candidate), specialising in Adult/Older Adult Physical Activity.
The Centre was ranked as the leading research group in the UK in the 2014 Research Exercise Framework (REF) and is seeking an individual who can build on this success. ENHS is a research intensive Centre where expertise in both physical activity and nutrition are brought together to conduct theoretically grounded and methodologically innovative studies which inform public health policy.
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development and delivery of the MSc in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health (NPAPH). The NPAPH programme is highly regarded by professional organisations and is consistently one of the highest ranked postgraduate programmes in the University of Bristol, often receiving 100% overall satisfaction rates by students.
Candidates should have a record of delivering excellent research and experience of writing research bids in the field of Adult/Older Adult Physical Activity as well as a record of recent publications in leading peer-reviewed journals. In addition, candidates should have excellent administrative skills, experience of delivering high quality teaching in a higher education context and hold a PhD in Physical Activity, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Public Health, Behaviour Change, or a cognate discipline or equivalent.
For appointment at Senior Lecturer level, candidates would be expected to additionally demonstrate:
- The potential to be a research leader in their field, showing an established national profile of research funding and leadership, and preferably an emerging international profile, for their work.
- Ability to lead and develop a major teaching programme
- A broad range of teaching and teaching-related management experience in a higher education context
- Experience of supervision of research students at doctoral level
The Centre was ranked as the leading research group in the UK in the 2014 Research Exercise Framework (REF) and is seeking an individual who can build on this success. ENHS is a research intensive Centre where expertise in both physical activity and nutrition are brought together to conduct theoretically grounded and methodologically innovative studies which inform public health policy.
The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development and delivery of the MSc in Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health (NPAPH). The NPAPH programme is highly regarded by professional organisations and is consistently one of the highest ranked postgraduate programmes in the University of Bristol, often receiving 100% overall satisfaction rates by students.
Candidates should have a record of delivering excellent research and experience of writing research bids in the field of Adult/Older Adult Physical Activity as well as a record of recent publications in leading peer-reviewed journals. In addition, candidates should have excellent administrative skills, experience of delivering high quality teaching in a higher education context and hold a PhD in Physical Activity, Epidemiology, Health Economics, Public Health, Behaviour Change, or a cognate discipline or equivalent.
For appointment at Senior Lecturer level, candidates would be expected to additionally demonstrate:
- The potential to be a research leader in their field, showing an established national profile of research funding and leadership, and preferably an emerging international profile, for their work.
- Ability to lead and develop a major teaching programme
- A broad range of teaching and teaching-related management experience in a higher education context
- Experience of supervision of research students at doctoral level
The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 4 December 2016.
It is expected that the final selection process will be held in week commencing 30 January 2017.
For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Russ Jago (email: Russ.Jago@bristol.ac.uk or tel: +44 (0)117 954 6603).