Lecturer (Assistant Professor) / Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) (MS6081)

Lecturer / Assistant Professor salary: Starting from £39,992, rising to £47,722

Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor salary: Starting from £49,149, rising to £56,950

The Department of Economics at the University of Bath is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in any area of Economics. Lecturers are equivalent to tenure track Assistant Professors positions and Senior Lecturers are equivalent to tenured Associate Professors.

We invite applications from all fields, but have particular teaching needs in Applied (Micro-) Econometrics and Macroeconomics/Finance. Successful candidates at Lecturer level will have demonstrable potential in research (both in terms of publications and grant capture) as well as high quality teaching. For appointments at Senior Lecturer level, essential criteria include: (i) a strong record in publishing high quality research and engagement with research grants and/or contracts; (ii) a broad teaching portfolio; (iii) the ability to play a leading role in one or more of our five dynamic research groups (see below) and to make active contributions to our specialist research themes (Innovation and Productivity, Governance of Systems and Institutions, Social Determinants of Health, and Sustainable Living). All candidates are expected to deliver high quality teaching, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and to attract and successfully supervise PhD students.

The Department of Economics at the University of Bath promotes a vibrant research environment and supports and encourages collegiality. We therefore especially welcome applicants who share our ethos. We are a growing department of currently 38 full-time academics, with five dynamic research groups in: (I) Macroeconomics and Finance (II) Econometrics, (III) Economic Theory, (IV) Public and Environmental Economics, and (V) Labour/Education/Health Economics. We attract high quality undergraduate and postgraduate students to an extensive range of programmes. Our research activities inform students’ learning and encourage the interaction between academia and the wider society both in terms of policy formulation and outcome evaluation and knowledge transfer to businesses and public organisations. The University of Bath is located above the UNESCO world heritage city of Bath 115 miles west of London.

For more information about the Department and its activities see www.bath.ac.uk/departments/department-of-economics.

For informal enquiries contact:

Dr Peter Postl, Head of Department by email: p.postl@bath.ac.uk; Professor Chris Martin, Deputy Head of Department by email: C.I.Martin@bath.ac.uk; Dr Maik Schneider, Director of Research by email: m.t.schneider@bath.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 18 Sep 2018
Type: Education & Research