Lecturer (Teaching) in Psychology or Education - Maternity Cover x2

UCL; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

UCL seeks two exceptional Lecturers in Psychology or Education for maternity cover. The role involves teaching, supervising postgraduate projects, and developing curricula. Candidates must hold a doctorate in a related area and demonstrate teaching and research excellence. This position offers competitive benefits and supports diversity in applications.

Benefits

41 Days holiday

Defined benefit pension scheme

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

Qualifications

• Evidence of teaching and research specialisms in education or psychology.
• Developing research profile reflected in publications or impact activities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to teaching on postgraduate and undergraduate courses.
• Supervise postgraduate research projects.

Skills

Teaching

Research

Education

Earned doctorate in education or psychology

Job description

About us

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Department of Psychology and Human Development brings together staff with research and teaching interests that encompass psychological approaches to learning, development and education from early childhood to adulthood in typical and atypical populations.

About the role

We are looking for two exceptional applicants for the posts of Lecturer (Teaching) in Psychology or Education (Maternity Cover).

In this post you will contribute to teaching on courses offered to postgraduate and/or undergraduate students and supervise postgraduate research projects.

In addition, you will use a range of monitoring and evaluation techniques to assess the effectiveness of course delivery and contribute to the development of research-led curricula across relevant programme areas.

About you

With an earned doctorate in education, psychology or closely related area you will have evidence of teaching and research specialisms in education, psychology or closely related area, together with a developing research profile, reflected in publications and/or impact activities.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

There are two posts available, both for 12 months each, with one starting on 1 st September and the other starting on 1 st October 2025.

For further information please contact Professor Zachary Walker: [e-mail]

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.