Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Economics

Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne - United Kingdom
S: See advert

Salary: SL: £38,896 - £47,801;
L: £33,574 - £37,768
Northumbria is a thriving research engaged, business focused, professional university with a firm and ambitious vision.

Within the Faculty of Business and Law, Newcastle Business School has an outstanding reputation in the delivery of business relevant programmes that are underpinned by research. The School is the first in Europe to gain double AACSB accreditation (Business & Management and Accounting) from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, positioning it as part of an elite group of the top 1% business schools worldwide. Newcastle Business School currently has 4,500 students based in a £70m iconic state-of-the-art city centre campus in Newcastle. Over 40% of our publication outputs and 60% of our impact case studies have been assessed as internationally excellent or world leading in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF). Newcastle Business School has just won the Business School of the Year award at the highly prestigious The Times Higher Education awards.

Working within the Department of Business and Management, you will join a team of highly qualified academics with a passion for enhancing the student experience. You will contribute to research informed and technology enabled learning and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition to teaching, you will undertake research and scholarly activities contributing to the Faculty's research profile, and will contribute to consultancy, enterprise, and other income generation and business development activities.

You must have (or be close to completing) a PhD in a relevant field, ideally coupled with experience and expertise in the application of economic theory in industry, business, and policy making. With excellent interpersonal skills, you must be able to demonstrate expert knowledge in the field and be able to teach effectively on a range of academic and professional programmes using a variety of approaches to student learning. You will possess strong quantitative and/or qualitative analytical skills and ideally be a member of an appropriate professional body.

Northumbria University is an equal opportunities employer and in welcoming applications from all sectors of the community we strongly encourage applications from women and under-represented groups.

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