3 x Lectureships in Psychology

(Teaching & Research; Permanent)

(Required from 1st August 2023, with a view of starting earlier where possible)                                                                                       

Closing date for applications: 17^th April 2023

Job talks and Interviews: Week starting 22^nd May 2023

Desirable Start Date: 1^st September 2023

Psychology at Goldsmiths

Goldsmiths, University of London is one of the world’s top creative universities, home to a vibrant and inventive academic community that continues to respond to the urgent challenges of our times, such as mental health, social justice and climate change. Goldsmiths addresses these challenges both locally and globally, using innovative approaches that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London is a thriving centre of excellence in research, learning and teaching.

The Psychology department boasts a vibrant research community in an inherently interdisciplinary environment at the intersection of the arts, the social and the life sciences. Psychology at Goldsmiths has a successful and long-standing track record of attracting significant research funding from research councils and working with charities and businesses. 100% of our research impact and 82% of our overall research activity is rated officially world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour (Research Excellence Framework 2021). Psychology at Goldsmiths is ranked in the UK Top 40 for research power (Times Higher Education rankings, Research Excellence Framework 2021) and in the Top 150 of Psychology departments worldwide (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023). The department houses state-of-the-art research facilities, including brain stimulation, lab-based and mobile EEG, wearable sensing and eye-tracking equipment. We are strongly committed to open science principles and to applying research to influence policy and practice in society and real-world contexts. The department supports early career researchers through internally funded PhD bursaries, an individual mentoring scheme and university-wide research seed-funding initiatives.

Campus-based and in the heart of southeast London, the Psychology department at Goldsmiths offers a distinctive research-led teaching and learning experience to a highly diverse local and global student population. Our undergraduate programme is the UK’s top psychology programme for social mobility (Sutton Trust Universities and Social Mobility report 2021). We are in the process of transforming our UG programme with a focus on three themes, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Cognition & Culture and Psychology & Society to provide a current, critical and creative psychology education that prepares students for addressing the challenges of modern society. Our postgraduate programmes have a strong focus on interdisciplinarity and real-world applications, including the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (delivered together with the Goldsmiths Computing department), a BPS accredited MSc in Forensic Psychology and two internationally unique programmes bridging the arts and cognitive neuroscience, the MSc in Music, Mind and Brain and the MSc Psychology of the Arts, Neuroaesthetics and Creativity.

All our teaching and research activities are underpinned by a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, as evidenced by an Athena Swan Bronze Award to the Department and the University. Goldsmiths is a member of the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’ and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We are proud to advance equality of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity and to maintain an inclusive environment for everyone.

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