The Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, in the Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, seeks to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer to contribute to one or more of our research priority areas (i) embryo implantation and early placental development (ii) placental dysfunction in complications of pregnancy and (iii) maternal cardiometabolic physiology in health and disease, and to contribute to our excellent undergraduate and postgraduate teaching delivery in this field.
The successful appointee will join an integrated team of discovery and clinical scientists in purpose-built laboratories based within the largest single maternity hospital in the UK. You will have plentiful opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in the wider division, which includes cell and developmental biologists, and to engage with interdisciplinary research with colleagues across faculties. Teaching will be both within the university’s MBChB programme and postgraduate taught programmes within the School of Medical Sciences. The successful appointee will also be expected to contribute to teaching within the School of Biological Sciences undergraduate programmes and to provide high-quality supervision to postgraduate research students.
The Maternal and Fetal Health Research centre incorporates the Tommy’s Stillbirth Centre, one of four funded centres in the UK. The centre sits within the Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, in the School of Medical Sciences and has collaborations across the Faculty of Medicine Biology and Health and the Faculty of Science and Engineering. This benefits scientists with multidisciplinary collaborations between physiologists, molecular biologists, computational scientists, mathematicians and clinicians accessing a population catchment of over 1.5 million people.
Applicants should have a PhD or equivalent in a relevant subject, a successful publishing record and a track record of external grant awards.
What you will get in return:
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
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Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
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Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
Name: Matthew Ronshaugen
Email: Matthew.ronshaugen@manchester.ac.uk
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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.
Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.
