Lecturer in Environmental Science - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Grade UE08:
£43,414 - £51,805 per annum

College of Science & Engineering /School of GeoSciences/Global Change Research Institute

Full time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended

The Opportunity:

Your skills and attributes for success:

PhD in Environmental Science or related area
Ability to deliver high quality research to address critical and timely issues in your field and collaborating across disciplines
Ability to enthuse students in their learning, and design and deliver effective teaching and assessment
Commitment to engage with decisionmakers, other stakeholders and/or the public
Demonstrable commitment to participating fully in academic life, including supporting students and collaborative working
Covering letter
Research statement (2 pages max.)
Teaching statement (2 pages max.)

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As valued members of our team you can expect:An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews for both positions are expected to be held in mid-late March 2023.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.

What you will be doing:

The appointee will join the Global Change Research Institute in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.

The institute is home to around 100 academic and research staff and 130 postgraduate researchers whose overarching mission is to understand past, present and future changes in the Earth system, and to inform mitigation strategies for future change.

We host longstanding programmes in understanding how the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, land surface and oceans have interacted in the past, in monitoring their current behaviour, and in developing predictions of their future dynamics.

Building on these scientific foundations, we further engage in interdisciplinary research focussed on mitigating the many challenges posed by the global climate emergency, environmental hazards, inequalities, conservation and sustainability.

Our research extends throughout the world, over the seven continents, across all the oceans, from the poles to the equator, and from the deep Earth to the upper atmosphere.

Our research programmes typically involve field work, remote sensing, in situ monitoring, laboratory experimentation and analysis, theory, modelling and stakeholder engagement.

We research and teach across all GeoSciences disciplines including ecology, environmental science, geography, geology, geophysics and meteorology.

The BSc degree programmes in Ecological and Environmental Sciences have around 250 students across four years.

Through classroom, practical, digital and field teaching, students on these programmes develop the skills and knowledge to:

understand environmental issues; design robust strategies for sample collection; make ecological and environmental measurements; evaluate the significance of results; and manage conservation and environmental protection projects.

They are taught mainly by staff within the Biosphere research group of the Global Change Research Institute.

The group are advancing the frontiers of research on soils, freshwater, microbes and plants, their interactions and their role in the entire Earth system, while also contributing to improving human societal-environment relationships.