Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Project Management (Teaching and Scholarship)

Department: School of Business & Management
Salary: £55,840 - £62,415 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. (Grade 7)
Reference: QMUL24651
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 23-Mar-2021
Closing date: 22-Apr-2021

Overview:

About the Role

The School of Business and Management (SBM) seeks to recruit an outstanding educator to a Senior Lectureship in Project Management and Entrepreneurship. This is a Teaching and Scholarship (T&S) focused position which offers an exceptional opportunity for a passionate educator and educational leader to lead on the School’s extra-curricular support for students seeking to develop skills in project management, as well as providing innovative teaching in these areas in the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

About You

Applicants for the Senior Lectureship will be academics with strong teaching and educational leadership records, qualified to at least post-doctoral level with a specialism in entrepreneurship and project management, and will ideally have practitioner experience. Applicants should be able to demonstrate the capacity for excellent teaching in a UK university context, for driving innovation in teaching and learning.

All applicants should demonstrate the capacity to teach and supervise effectively across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Applicants must provide evidence of their teaching abilities, drawing on their experience. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the teaching on programmes, such as our MSc in Business Analytics, that focus on the application of data analytics and machine learning to business challenges. Students on these programmes expect to learn about opportunities and challenges of digital entrepreneurship and require a strong foundation in project management techniques appropriate to highly dynamic environments. The rapid pace of change in these fields will necessitate frequent updates to teaching materials and content.

Colleagues on T&S contracts have access to a full range of professional development support, including an annual allowance to support their scholarship or pedagogical activities. Queen Mary recently revised the college’s promotion guidelines to provide comprehensive and clear promotion routes for T&S staff up to and including the academic rank of professor.

About the School of Business and Management, and the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics

The School of Business and Management is one of the eight schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The School has been undergoing a period of rapid growth, doubling our number of academic staff over the last five years. We presently have 90 academic staff. We have over 1,600 undergraduate business studies students plus approximately 800 students taking business in combination with other degree subjects within QMUL. At the post-graduate level we have approximately 800 MSc students and a well-established doctoral programme of around 80 doctoral students.

SBM’s core purpose is to promote social justice, sustainability and good governance in the management of private, public and voluntary organisations through our research and education. We are a distinctive School that takes a humanities and social science-led approach to our scholarship, and are now the largest school within QMUL’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, with its traditional strengths as a site of critical thinking in the humanities, law, history, geography and politics.

The Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics focuses on solutions to technological, social and environmental challenges through data analysis. Our core value is collegiality. Departmental colleagues are committed to collective excellence in teaching and research in Business Analytics and Applied Economics and respect each other's abilities to work toward that purpose. The Department is research-led, and we publish in peer reviewed journals and monographs of leading university presses. Our research addresses the needs of practitioners across industry and government by applying cutting-edge research methods, focusing on significant technological, social and environmental challenges. Drawing on this work, research-led teaching equips students to respond to challenges on the basis of careful analysis and the application of sound methods and processes. The Department has introduced a range of innovative, exciting new degrees in recent years and is seeking colleagues who can contribute to the further development of these degrees.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full time, permanent appointment, and is available from 1st August 2021. The starting salary will be Grade 7, in the range of £55,840 - £62,415 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

How to Apply

Your application should include a focused CV of no more than ten pages, including evidence of teaching quality (for example recent evaluations and teaching awards or other recognition) and evidence of educational impact. Please do not provide evidence of qualifications with your application as these will be requested at a later stage in the process. As part of the selection process you will be asked to present to members of the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics on your teaching.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

We particularly welcome applications from women and BAME applicants who are currently underrepresented in the School at this level.

Enquiries can be addressed to:

Professor Brigitte Granville, Head of Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics and Professor of International Economics and Economic Policy, b.granville@qmul.ac.uk

Information about the School can be found at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/ and about the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics at https://www.qmul.ac.uk/busman/departments/department-of-business-analytics-and-applied-economics/

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The closing date for applications is 22nd April 2021

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

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