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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Sep 1, 2017

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Job Purpose

The School of Chemical Engineering is a multi-disciplinary and vibrant environment for outstanding study and research. The School is internationally renowned for its pioneering research in the areas of structured materials, formulation engineering, healthcare technologies and energy storage. A recipient of a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2011 for research excellence, the School was ranked top in the recent REF 2014 exercise for the impact of its research within industry.

The School has 33 permanent academic staff, over 50 research staff, over 150 postgraduate research students and some 650 undergraduate students. The School regularly attracts research income in excess of £10 million per year through a balanced portfolio of grants from the UK Research Councils (RCUK), the European Union and Industry. The School’s research is supported by two Centres for Doctoral Training in Formulation Engineering and in Fuel Cells and their Fuels.

Research in the School is structured around the following themes:
• Energy, including Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage, Bioenergy and Fuel Cells and their Fuels and recent Thermal Energy Research Accelerator (T-ERA) investment
• Formulation Engineering, including microstructure engineering, particle technology and multiphase processing
• Healthcare Technologies Institute, including nanoengineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering

Energy particularly energy storage is a core research theme which embraces many disciplines across the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Strategic investments by Government and the University via the eight great technologies initiative (~£13M) has led to the creation of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) – a distributed centre across the campus with the School as the Hub, and a member of Birmingham Energy Institute. BCES’s research covers novel materials, components and devices (unit operation), and systems integration and optimisation (process engineering) of thermal energy storage. The Centre has recently benefited from a significant investment from the T-ERA initiative, allowing creation of new research space, purchase of the state-of-the-art equipment, and recruitment of new staff members.

We thus seek to appoint a lecturer or senior lecturer position (depending on experience) in thermal energy storage materials and advanced manufacture in reflection of these exciting new developments and to contribute to the continuing growth and success of the Centre. The overall roles within this post are:
• To initiate and conduct international-quality research in thermal energy storage materials and advanced manufacture, and to bring originality and new research directions. It is expected that the candidate will bring in significant research funding from RCUK, Innovate UK, Industry and international funding organisations.
• To develop and deliver undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD programmes in line with the School’s teaching strategy and to participate in the School’s overall contribution to the University.
To seek knowledge transfer and business engagement opportunities to support the sustainable development of thermal energy storage materials and advanced manufacture.
• To play a major role in the development of a Master Programme on energy.
Person Specification

Key Skills
• A good first degree together with a PhD in Chemical Engineering or a similar discipline of relevance to our energy research theme, particularly thermal energy storage and advanced manufacture technologies.
• Membership of relevant Professional bodies.
• A record of internationally leading publications and evidence of a forward publication trajectory that will enhance the reputation of the School, College and University.

New staff with teaching responsibilities who have little experience of teaching in UK higher education are normally expected to register for the University’s Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and to successfully complete the first 20 credit modules of the programme as a probationary requirement. At the point at which an offer of employment is made the successful candidate will be informed if the selection panel requires them to complete the first module of this PG Certificate programme.

Senior Lecturer (Grade 9)
A Senior Lecturer should demonstrate competence in Research; Learning and Teaching; and Management and Administration; and excellence in at least two of these areas:

Research requirements
An excellent national reputation and a developing international profile through original research work and a clear record of impact. There should be evidence of success under the following headings, as appropriate:
• High level peer esteem as evidenced by
o Excellent reputation in the UK and often internationally, reflected in sustained high quality output, level of innovation, impact on subject and recognition.
o An excellent and sustained record of peer reviewed research publications in the field.
• Successful and sustained supervision of doctoral students to completion.
• Substantial and sustained research income generation, e.g. through research grants, contracts, research consultancy or other external funding.

Learning and teaching requirements
An excellent teaching profile and performance in terms of both impact and quality. The teaching quality must also be demonstrated to be informed by an appropriate level of scholarship. There should be evidence of success under the following headings:
• Successful and sustained use of a range of appropriate teaching methods, and assessment strategies that promote high quality learning, including learning that is flexible, distinctive and current and stimulates learners’ natural curiosity in the subject of chemical engineering.
• Significant and sustained contribution to one or more of the following: strategic development of new programmes; approaches to learning; the development of learning resources.
• High quality and sustained contributions to fostering excellence in teaching activities more widely, i.e. in the School or College and/or externally.
• Mentoring and expert advice which develops the skills of colleagues in teaching and in fostering learning.

Management and administration-related requirements
The role-holder should demonstrate significant achievement in management and administration-related activities, which may include leadership of activities/initiatives. There should be evidence of success under the following headings:
• Successful and sustained performance in significant administrative/managerial role (s) (e.g. exams officer).
• Significant and sustained high quality innovative contributions to the management and administration of a Department/School/College or University.
• Successful and sustained contribution to the corporate life of the School/College/University, displaying willingness to contribute actively to committees, collaborative teaching and administrative tasks.
• Extensive research/teaching experience and scholarship within subject specialism.
• Proven ability to devise, advise on and manage learning/ research.
• Skills in managing, motivating and mentoring others successfully at all levels.

Lecturer (Grade 8)
Research
• Experience and achievement reflected in a growing reputation in the area of thermal energy storage materials and advanced manufacture technologies.
• Extensive experience and demonstrated success in planning, undertaking and project managing research to deliver high quality results.
• Extensive experience of applying and/or developing and devising successful models, techniques and methods.
Teaching
• Ability to design, deliver, assess and revise teaching programmes.
• Extensive experience and demonstrated success in developing appropriate approaches to learning and teaching, and advising colleagues.

Management Administration
• Ability to contribute to School management processes
• Ability to assess and organise resources effectively
Understanding of and ability to contribute

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