Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition and Health Science

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School of Science

Location:Medway Campus

Salary: £40,927 to £50,296 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Sunday 03 July 2022

Interview Date:To be confirmed

Reference:3261

The University of Greenwich is undergoing an exciting transformation, with the launch of a new strategy motivated by an ethos of ‘Education without Boundaries’. This is already driving exceptional performance as evidenced in our recent REF2021 outcome. This saw a significant improvement in our research quality and volume across all subject areas, leading to an increase of 25 places based on grade point average (GPA), the fourth highest increase in the sector.

To maintain this impetus for growth and success, the University of Greenwich is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition and Health Science within the School of Science (www.gre.ac.uk/es/science)

Featured in the top 15 in the UK league tables for Food and Nutrition, we are seeking to extend our academic staff base to support the increased growth of this discipline at the University.

We are looking for a Registered Nutritionist (or eligible for registration), able to conduct high quality teaching and research on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the Human Nutrition discipline. The role holder will focus on delivering excellence in educational provision in a variety of formats, as well as making a strong, positive contribution to the School’s academic research profile in learning and teaching, employability, and the student experience, as well as to add value to the University’s objectives in relation to achieving excellence.

If you would like to help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research in the Faculty of Engineering and Science, then we would welcome your application to join us at our historic Medway campus in Chatham.

For further information, please contact the Head of School of Science: Professor Linda Brownlow at l.brownlow@gre.ac.uk or the PVC (Interim): Professor Peter Griffiths at p.griffiths@gre.ac.uk

Should you have any queries please contact the HR Recruitment Team hrsr-fes@greenwich.ac.uk

We are looking for people who can help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research, through our values.

Academic Career Pathways

The University welcomes people from diverse and under-represented communities who can help the university to achieve its mission.

We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion.

We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form.

We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.