The School wishes to recruit two enthusiastic and innovative individuals to the role of Senior Lecturer and Lecturer in Health Data Sciences to grow capacity in developing and delivering teaching.
You will also be expected to contribute to and develop undergraduate teaching, postgraduate teaching and supervision, and professional training as well as undertake any associated management and administrative duties.
The University and Health Education England are investing in the development of programmes within clinical and health data sciences to support the strategically important area of digital transformation within the NHS and beyond.
You will join an engaged data science community at Manchester with of over 400 investigators working across the University in different disciplines allied to data sciences and connected through the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Our expertise covers the complete data science life-cycle: from information management, through analytics, to practical applications. A key feature of our approach is very close coupling between methodologists and translational scientists, drawing on strength-in-depth in real-world applications of data science. This creates a virtuous circle, where challenging real-world problems drive the methodology research agenda, whilst providing a natural route to exploiting new algorithms and methods. We believe this deeply multidisciplinary approach is one of the distinctive features of data science at Manchester. Manchester is a member of The Alan Turing Institute: the UK’s national institute for data science, and researchers at Manchester lead a Turing research programme in health.
Teaching within the Division includes an MSc in Health Data Science a joint MSc in Health Informatics in collaboration with University College London and a PG Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics. We also offer accredited short courses, two MOOCs in Clinical Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence for Health and Digital Transformation and commissioned programmes for industry and the public sector. We have a vibrant international community of postgraduate research students and also contribute to undergraduate programmes in Manchester Medical School and the School of Computer Sciences. The post holder will contribute to expanding our range of educational programmes, particularly in the online space. Within the Division, work in this area has been supported by a £5m investment into the School to create the integrated interdisciplinary innovations in health science hub to promote teaching and research across disciplines, for population health benefit through data sciences.
For appointment to Lecturer, you should have, or about to have, a PhD (or equivalent) in a data sciences related field, experience with curriculum design and development to a range of students professionals, and experience in the analysis of complex healthcare problems.
For appointment to Senior Lecturer, you will hold a PhD (or equivalent) and will have experience of evaluating pedagogical approaches, experience with online/blended learning and a strong publication record.
The School of Health Sciences is strongly committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for gender equality in higher education. The School holds a Silver Award which recognises their good practice in relation to gender; including flexible working arrangements, family-friendly policies, and support to allow staff achieve a good work-life balance. We particularly welcome applications from women for this post. An appointment will always be made on merit. For further information, please visit: https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/about/equality/
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies
We expect to hold interviews for these posts on 30th September 2020.
Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:
SENIOR LECTURER POST:
Name: Dr Ang Davies
Email: angela.davies@manchester.ac.uk
LECTURER POST:
Name: Dr Matthew Sperrin
Email: matthew.sperrin@manchester.ac.uk
General enquiries:
Email: hrservices@manchester.ac.uk
Technical support:
Email: universityofmanchester@helpmeapply.co.uk
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.
