School of Psychology
Location: Canterbury
Salary: £36,386 to £50,300
Grade: Grade 7 Academic to Grade 8
Post Type: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Release Date: Friday 09 June 2023
Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Sunday 09 July 2023 (unless otherwise stated)
Interview Date: Monday 24 July 2023
Reference: HSS-182-23

The School of Psychology is seeking to appoint a lecturer in Psychology focusing on research methods and statistics, to join a collegial and intellectually vibrant school.
You will join an energetic team of colleagues working across sub-disciplines including cognition and neuroscience, and social, forensic and developmental psychology.
The successful candidate is expected to design and deliver teaching methods and statistics in our UG programmes and contribute toward advanced methods and statistics in our PG programmes. Moreover, you will be expected to provide expertise, help and support in methodological and statistical questions for colleagues in Schools.
Informal enquiries can be directed to the Head of School, Professor Robbie Sutton (psyhos@kent.ac.uk) and Dr Dinkar Sharma (d.sharma@kent.ac.uk)

As a Lecturer in Psychology for Research Methods and Statistics, you will:
• Develop, deliver and assess excellent teaching and learning materials in a variety of settings across a range of modules and contribute to core teaching on Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught programmes, particularly in research methods and statistics
• Conduct scholarship activity which may include research, internal and external dissemination of teaching practice, and the application of psychological concepts and methods in professional practice
• Focus the bulk of your educational activity on research methodology and statistics training at UG and/or PG levels
• Supervise students undertaking their final year project and MSc projects
• Pro-actively contribute to administration and to the collegial work environment
To be successful in the role you will have/be:
• A PhD (or equivalent) in Psychology, statistics or related discipline
• Publication(s) in referred psychological or methodology journals
• Experience in teaching basic (e.g. t-tests, correlations, regressions, ANOVA) and/or advanced (e.g. scale development, factor analysis, SEM, multilevel modelling, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling)psychological methods and statistics
• Experience of delivering high-quality teaching in higher education commensurate with career stage
• Experience with statistical software used for teaching and supervision in the School (R)
The School of Psychology ranks 11th in the UK for its world-leading applications (FER2021), and is in the world’s top100 Psychology departments according to The Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings (8th in the UK), and the QS World University Rankings (14th in the UK)
Please see the links below to view the full Job Description and to apply for this post. For further information regarding the application process, please contact The HR Team on hsshr@kent.ac.uk quoting ref number: HSS-182-23
Further details:
Please note that we prioritise applications from current University of Kent redeployees. We will let you know if this post is to be filled by a redeployee as, in this instance, your application will unfortunately not be taken forward.
Applications must be made via the University’s online application system; CVs or details sent directly to the department or via email cannot be considered.
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