Job Description

Location: Singleton Campus

To deliver its sustainable top 30 ambition Swansea University needs a workforce with the differentiated skills necessary to ensure that it can deliver excellence in research, teaching, learning, and the wider student experience, and to be a powerhouse for the regional economy and internationally.

As part of its strategic commitment to help improve educational standards in Wales, Swansea University has established the Department of Education and Childhood Studies. The Department has already launched an innovative suite of research led and research orientated programmes in Education, Childhood Studies and Developmental and Therapeutic Play.

The Department for Education and Childhood Studies has a thriving and well respected portfolio of research. We have expertise in children\'s rights, family learning, early childhood studies, initial teacher education and play, amongst others. We are committed to working at the research-practice interface and collaborating with other universities and policy makers in Wales and further afield. Such is the quality of our research that, just five years after being launched, we were included in the QS world rankings as a new entrant.

We are seeking to appoint a Professor of Education as a permanent post. The post holder will be expected to take a leading role in shaping and supporting the research culture of the relatively newly formed Department of Education and Childhood Studies. We have a wide range of multidisciplinary research interests, and staff in all phases of their academic careers, but with a consistent commitment to bridging between research and practice, an example of which can be seen in our Centre for Research into Practice.

The post holder will be expected to support all, but especially early career, researchers, particularly in the areas of grant capture and support for the REF. The department is a highly collegial one, with an embedded culture of mutual working and support, and the new appointment will be expected to support this culture while helping to ensure continued rigour and quality in research.

The post holder would also be expected to contribute, as appropriate to their skills and expertise, to our diverse teaching portfolio, as well as supporting undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, and supervising PhD and EdD students.

We have achieved a great deal in a short period of time and we are now looking for a senior academic who can help us build on our successes and achieve even more in the future. We are looking for someone who shares our collegial values, who, like us, is committed to bridging the research-practice gap and who can help mentor and support colleagues to help them build their own research and scholarship portfolios.

The post holder will be expected to have a doctoral degree in Education or an aligned subject, and a recognised teaching qualification such as Fellowship (or Senior Fellowship) in the HEA. The postholder should also have a record of successful supervision of undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral students.

A candidate for this professorial level post should have a sustained and distinguished record of world leading or internationally excellent research and publication, which aligns with and could enhance the research in the Department of Education and Childhood studies.

Competitive salary (commensurate with the Professorial role) with USS pension benefits

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