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YOUR CAREER STARTS HERE ... Griffith's School of Applied Psychology is recognised as one of the leading departments of psychology in Australia. We have teaching initiatives in the School that have been benchmarked as national best practice, and many of our staff have received national awards for excellence in teaching. The focus of the School is on innovative applications of psychology which we promote through an emphasis on work-integrated learning and skills development taught by a comparatively high proportion of professional psychologists. This is a five year fixed term position as Professor / Associate Professor, and a three year term as Deputy Head and Director BB, with the possibility of renewal for a further two years by mutual agreement. An underlying continuing Professorial / Associate Professorial position may be negotiated. The role:  The appointee will provide academic and operational leadership through fostering excellence in research and teaching within the Applied ...

This is a Full time, fixed term post for a period of 24 months The successful applicant for this post will work with Professor Thanos Karatzias & Professor Michael Brown and in close collaboration with colleagues in health and social care across Scotland. The primary aim of this research is to investigate the impact and outcomes achieved by Local Area Coordinators (LACs) based within primary care teams and those within generic LAC teams on the health of people with learning disabilities.  Essential skills include interviewing and assessment skills for research purposes, excellent communication skills, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis and report writing as well as administrative skills. The successful applicant should also be able to demonstrate organizational skills and the ability to work independently and to deadlines and the ability to travel across Scotland. Applications are welcomed from applicants with a background in nursing, AHPs, social work or ap...

YOUR CAREER STARTS HERE ... Griffith's School of Applied Psychology is recognised as one of the leading departments of psychology in Australia. We have teaching initiatives in the School that have been benchmarked as national best practice, and many of our staff have received national awards for excellence in teaching. The focus of the School is on innovative applications of psychology which we promote through an emphasis on work-integrated learning and skills development taught by a comparatively high proportion of professional psychologists. This is a five year fixed term position as Professor / Associate Professor, and a three year term as Deputy Head and Director BB, with the possibility of renewal for a further two years by mutual agreement. An underlying continuing Professorial / Associate Professorial position may be negotiated. The role:  The appointee will provide academic and operational leadership through fostering excellence in research and teaching within the Applied ...

Fixed-term until 31/08/2014 Full time Salary £31,644 to £35,597 per annum, dependent on experience Sheffield Hallam is an innovative and responsive University, committed to the belief that high quality teaching and research can transform individuals, organisations and communities. The Faculty of Development and Society brings together a diverse range of subjects with a focus on social and economic transformation and multidisciplinary working. We achieve this by delivering cutting-edge teaching, research and knowledge transfer and building strong partnerships in the public, voluntary and private sectors. The Department of Teacher Education is committed to continuous improvement and to being the preferred accredited provider in the region for initial teacher education. With the implementation of government policy resulting in a move towards increasing the role of school and college partners in teacher education and our on-going commitment to widening participation, we are seeking to app...

Kings Bournemouth is part of the Kings Colleges Group of schools.  Established in 1957, Kings is one of the leading international college groups in the UK and USA,  providing an extensive range of English Language and Academic courses including GCSE, A-Level and Foundation programmes.  We teach international students and regularly welcome students from over 60 different countries. Kings Bournemouth offers an extremely friendly working environment, highly motivated learners and small class sizes of 6-10. Kings Bournemouth was rated as ‘Good’ in our first Ofsted inspection in May 2013. We are now recruiting full-time qualified Maths Teacher for January 2014 to teach Maths and Further Maths to A Level standard. The ability to teach a second subject, or TEFL qualifications and experience of teaching international students would be an advantage. Please send a CV to: Melanie Rumble, Academic Course Director, at melanie.rumble@bournemouth.kingscolleges.com  via the  'Apply' button b...

(Fixed Term) Salary: £28,132-£36,661 Reference: PD02320 Closing date: 09 January 2014 A Postdoctoral Research Associate position is available in the group of Dr Ian Henderson in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. The Henderson laboratory is investigating control of meiotic crossover frequency in plant genomes using a combination of experimental and statistical genetics. Examples of recent publications from the group include a map of crossover hotspots (Choi et al., (2013) Nature Genetics 45: 1327-36) and a study testing the role of DNA methylation for recombination (Yelina et al., (2012) PLoS Genetics 8: e1002844). This is a BBSRC-funded project that builds from this work that aims to manipulate meiotic recombination using TAL nucleases. TAL proteins are highly programmable sequence-specific DNA binding domains that can be used to target DNA double strand breaks to loci of choice. The PDRA will design and express TAL nucleases during meiosis to bias DNA breaks ...

Ref: M00551 Salary: Grade 6 £26,264 - £29,541 / Grade 7 £32,267 - £36,298 per annum The Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation is seeking an outstanding postdoctoral researcher to join a leading team of researchers working on bacterial and viral infections of the respiratory tract. The aim of this project is to develop and optimize a novel three-dimensional tissue-engineered in vitro airway model of the bovine respiratory tract by growing epithelial cells at an air-liquid interface. The model will subsequently be used to study host-pathogen interactions of selected bacteria and viruses (both individually and in co-infection studies) involved in bovine respiratory disease. The development of this model will lay the groundwork for similar studies involving the interactions of human pathogens with the human respiratory tract. Applications are particularly encouraged from candidates with experience in the use of tissue culture approaches, together with immunofluorescence and...

HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES £26,527 pa You will work with a group led by Dr Fiona Rowe, on a full-time 3-year project. You will be responsible for selecting and recruiting stroke survivors into the study, undertaking full visual assessments and managing participants longitudinally. You will work across a number of local geographically separate stroke units using validated orthoptic and vision measures and link with the University of Liverpool. You will be required to contribute to systematic literature reviews and evaluation of patient-reported outcome measures for visual impairment in a stroke population. You will also be expected to manage and analyse data and make written and verbal presentations of findings to colleagues and the project management committee and participate in the dissemination of findings. You will contribute to authoring manuscripts that we intend to submit for peer review. You will be encouraged to attend seminars in the research group and to use this opportunity t...

KTP010AX College / University Administration: College of Arts and Social Sciences Discipline / Area: Accountancy and Finance Position Type: Full-time Salary: £20,000 - £25,000 Job Summary: An associate with a background in finance, economics, and/or business management is sought to help design, develop, and implement a feasibility study and business plan for the creation of a new financial intermediary, to be owned and governed by Scotland’s farming community, and subsequent financial consultancy services for the UK agricultural/food sector. The project is a partnership between the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Limited (SAOS) and The University of Aberdeen. Whilst the job holder will be employed and supported by the University of Aberdeen, the location for the work will be the office of the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society Ltd at the Rural Centre, Ingliston, Newbridge (near Edinburgh International Airport). The associate is expected to have: •             exper...

£28.50 per hour for Foundation / £35.60 per hour for Pre-masters The company Part of Kaplan Inc., Kaplan International Colleges offers university preparation in partnership with leading universities in Nottingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Glasgow, Brighton, Bournemouth and London, allowing international students to progress onto a wide range of degree programmes at these partner institutions. In addition to first-rate teaching and excellent study facilities, KIC programmes offer a high level of personal support as well as access to the facilities and resources of our university partners. Kaplan International College London Kaplan International College London is in partnership with City University, the University of Westminster and for postgraduate students, Cranfield University, with programmes designed to prepare international students for entry into these universities.  Students study a suite of subject, academic English and academic skills modules.  The first students were admitted to...

Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford Grade 6: £26,264 - £31,331 with a discretionary range to £34,223 p.a. The Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation is a leading independent, interdisciplinary research centre that undertakes a broad research programme related to business taxation, including the impact of taxes on firm behaviour and the welfare effects of such behaviour, and the design of taxation and fiscal policy. The centre is seeking an outstanding researcher in economics, to work as part of a team on a large ESRC award. We welcome applications from researchers in taxation and related fields, such as corporate finance, investment, location, fiscal policy and governance. The successful applicant will be expected to undertake research in a relevant aspect of business taxation, under the guidance and supervision of the Director. Research output should primarily be aimed at leading peer-reviewed academic journals; however, all researchers in the centre should also be...

The University of Luxembourg is a multilingual, international research University. The University of Luxembourg is recruiting for the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education an  Associate professor in primary science education (M/F) Ref. FLSHASE/ F3-030019 Full-time contract Mission:  The Associate Professor will be a member of the research unit EMACS (Educational Measurement and Applied Cognitive Sciences). The role of the associate professor will be to: Conduct research in primary science education – preference will be given to candidates that demonstrate a focus on interdisciplinary approaches to science education, as well as candidates with an experience in education for sustainable development;Participate in the development of teacher preparation programs for science education at the primary and post-primary level (cycle inférieur de l’enseignement secondaire);Engage in national and international collaborations to further the teaching of science at the...

(73508-113) Vacancy Type/Job category: Academic Department: Politics & International Studies Salary: £37,765 - £45,053 pa Location: University of Warwick, Coventry Vacancy Overview Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and the recently established Warwick Q-Step Centre. This is one of eight new permanent posts that will join an existing team of quantitative social science scholars as part of the Warwick Q-Step Centre. Whilst based in Politics and International Studies, you will be a member of a broader team within the new Warwick Q-Step Centre. We welcome applications in all subfields of the discipline and especially in areas of its existing expertise, such as: International Relations, International Security, Political Geography, International Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. Applications are encouraged across the full range of social statistics and quantitative research approaches, broadl...

The Language and Computation Group at the University of Essex is looking to recruit a Senior Research Officer with strong Human Language Technology skills, to participate in a recently started EU project, SENSEI. About the project SENSEI is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary project involving researchers in human language technology and journalism and industrial partners in the call centre, social media monitoring and news media businesses. The project aims to develop novel methods to extract, summarize/aggregate and present information from very large volumes of conversational data, specifically, transcriptions of call centre conversations and reader comment in on-line news, taking advantage of automatically extracted semantic and discourse information. Essex's primary responsibilities in the project will be in the area of multilingual coreference resolution, entity disambiguation, and summarization. We will also be involved in organizing an evaluation campaign on summarization i...

The position is within the area of water treatment process engineering with an emphasis on experimental assessment for the urban water cycle, unit operations and technology development – relevant in water supply, storm water or wastewater treatment. The associate or assistant professor shall strengthen the Department’s research and research-based teaching in the field of water treatment. Application deadline: 15 January 2014 To view the full announcement and to apply, click the  Apply  button below. Subscribe to Current Government Vacancy by Email

Faculty of Business & Law £36,870 - £45,942 We are an innovative, forward-thinking and inspirational University with international reach and remarkable local impact. The Faculty of Business & Law has almost 3000 students worldwide, and is committed to providing programmes that combine academic excellence with practical, vocational, and transferable skills. The Department of Tourism, Hospitality & Events offers innovative programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is an international learning community with a long-standing reputation for teaching and research quality. Tourism courses at the University of Sunderland have been ranked best in the UK in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2013. In a standout year, Sunderland’s Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Events topped the league tables in an impressive 5 out of the 7 available categories, which included: Teaching Quality, Academic Support and Personal Development. We are looking to appoint a Senior Le...

We invite applications for Post-Doctoral Fellowship positions commencing in AY2014-2015. These Post-Doctoral Fellowship positions may be held generally or, for candidates with appropriate backgrounds and expertise, within the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS) , the Centre for Law and Business (CLB) , the Centre for Banking and Finance Law (CBFL) , and a new research centre in AY2014-2015, the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) . Successful applicants will commence their Fellowships at the start of August 2014 and conclude them at the end of July 2015 . Benefits Post-Doctoral Fellows will have the following privileges: Fellows will be appointed to the full-time position of Post-Doctoral Fellow at NUS Law on a one-year contract, with the possibility of renewal, and with a fixed all-in remuneration of S$78,000 .Fellows will be reimbursed for a return economy class airfare (by the most economical and direct route) up to a maximum of S$2,000.Fellows will be allocated a Faculty Research and ...

Royal Brompton Hospital Band 5, £25, 666 to £33,481 p.a., all inclusive Ref: 312-RB-RM-3943 Full-time Fixed term (until March 2017) Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is the largest heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We are a partnership of two specialist hospitals which are known throughout the world for our expertise, standard of care and research success. Hours: 37.5 per week, including shifts and some week-ends Contract: Fixed Term until March 2017 This is an exciting opportunity to further develop your respiratory nursing experience and develop research experience and skills within our service. Not only will you be deepening and broadening your respiratory expertise, you will play a pivotal role in the success of research studies, whilst gaining exposure to more complex, varied and advanced research techniques. You will also benefit from excellent training and development opportunities which include respiratory linked courses, lab te...

Division of Health Sciences Fixed Term Contract for 36 months - Job share would be considered. You will be an enthusiastic and motivated post-doctoral researcher with experience in both academic health research and project management. With a broad range of methodological expertise you will be interested in engaging with and complementing clinical and/or public health practice to improve patient care. You will be responsible for the research relevant to Prevention and detection theme hosted by the University of Warwick and will take an active role in research development and production of the theme and it's management and day-to-day organisation. You will have or be about to obtain a PhD and have a solid background in Health Services Research. Strong interests in conducting multidisciplinary research, methodology and or health service improvement would be advantageous. You will have very strong planning and organisational skills in health research together with an ability to plan c...

Faculty / Organisational unit : Engineering & Physical Sciences School / Directorate : School of Computer Science Location : Oxford Road, Manchester Salary : £24,766 to £28,685 p.a. (Research Assistant) or £29,541 to £36,298 p.a. (Research Associate) Applications are invited to join the team working on the SpiNNaker project, part of the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group within the School of Computer Science at Manchester. The APT group is a world-leading research centre, continuing the long and distinguished record of the University of Manchester in the field of Computer Architecture. The SpiNNaker architecture is optimized to support the simulation of simple (point-like) neurons and their connections (or synapses). This architecture now has a world-wide user base, drawn to a reliable and flexible platform for real-time neural network simulation; this community is comprised of both traditional computational neuroscientists and also scientists and engineers from applicati...