Senior Lecturer - Evidence SynthesisUniversity

Company description:

We are a world class research-intensive university. We deliver teaching and learning of the highest quality. We play a leading role in economic, social and cultural development of the North East of England. Attracting and retaining high-calibre people is fundamental to our continued success.

The Role

The purpose of this role is to provide academic leadership in evidence synthesis across the Population Health Sciences Institute, working within a shared leadership model to support the strategic development, integration, visibility and sustainability of evidence synthesis activity across research groups and NIHR infrastructure.

The postholder will lead the development and delivery of a high-quality evidence synthesis education portfolio across postgraduate and continuing professional development programmes, ensuring that evidence synthesis methodologies are embedded within curricula and aligned with emerging research and policy needs. They will contribute to the development of future evidence synthesis capacity through teaching, supervision, mentorship and curriculum innovation.

Alongside this educational leadership, the postholder will build a coherent programme spanning methodological innovation in evidence synthesis, applied evidence synthesis (including health technology assessment), and interdisciplinary collaboration within a highly collegiate research environment.

The role will play a key part in strengthening evidence synthesis as a visible and sustainable academic discipline within the Institute, integrating research, teaching and knowledge mobilisation activities. This will include developing income-generating educational and research activity, contributing to major collaborative infrastructure programmes, and enhancing the national and international profile of the Institute's evidence synthesis expertise.

The University has developed an Academic Job Summary Guidance document which summarises the range of activities that academic colleagues may be expected to perform.

£59,390 to £62,994 with progression to £68,817 per annum