Lectureship in Social Psychology X2 - Lancaster, United Kingdom - Lancaster University

Lancaster University

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Lancaster, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

The Department of Psychology at Lancaster University has a
vacancy for 2 full-time indefinite Lectureships in the area of Social Psychology.

The two positions are strategic appointments to develop and enhance our research and teaching in this growth area.
- publications,
- research grant acquisition,
- engagement and socio-economic impact,
- and teaching and leadership experience.

Interviews and selection activity is currently expected to take place across the week commencing 13 March 2023. with interviews taking place on 17 March 2023.

Further details about the Psychology Department at Lancaster
The Department has a strong tradition of collaborative research across traditional boundaries within Psychology and beyond.

We have a research building dedicated to behavioural and neurophysiological testing across the lifespan, supported by Psychology research technicians:

one floor houses labs devoted to infant and childhood studies; the other is devoted to adult social psychology, cognition and neuroscience.

Lancaster Psychology Department is home to the ESRC Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST), the UK's hub for behavioural and social science research into security threats.

We are also members of the N8 Policing Research Partnership, which includes 8 northern Universities in an academic-police collaboration that supports research on the challenges of 21st century policing.

Psychology staff are also members of interdisciplinary research institutes at the forefront of contemporary data-driven research challenges, including the Data Science Institute and Security Lancaster.

Members of the Social Processes group play a leading role in several UKRI NetworkPlus initiatives including:

SPRITE+ (Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement); TAS Node in Resilience (Trustworthy Autonomous Systems); RBOC Network Plus (Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities).

Lancaster has also recently installed a SafePod - a standardised safe setting that provides the necessary security for a researcher to access sensitive datasets from participating Data Centres across the UK.

For social processes, we have an extensive array of labs and technologies to support research in social processes, security and forensic psychology.

These include state-of-the-art motion tracking technology for measuring real-time nonverbal behaviour and nonverbal mimicry.

We also have new video analysis lab dedicated to the analysis of large corpuses of CCTV (and other types of digital visual data).

The Department has a strong track record of developing novel mobile and lab

We support our research through personnel, as well as facilities. A dedicated technical and resources team support the implementation of our research, including on-site, off-site, and online testing. We have a healthy adult participant pool through Sona. We have well-established relations with local nurseries, schools, hospitals, etc.

Lancaster University excels in both teaching and research.

Lancaster University is consistently ranked among the top universities in the main UK league tables (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, The Guardian University Guide 2023, and The Complete University Guide 2023), is ranked 122nd (and 15th in the UK) in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and is in the global top 50 universities for international outlook.

The University achieved Gold status in the most recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). As a Department, in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF % of our outputs were rated as world-leading or internationally excellent; we were ranked 17th for impact, and 29th overall. Members of the Department also participate in three major ESRC research centres. The Department promotes a symbiotic relationship between research and teaching.

The success of this approach is reflected in the quality of its BPS accredited research-led teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, including ESRC recognised PhD and Masters programmes within the largest Doctoral Training Programme in the UK.