Lecturer in Psychology

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Weekly Working Hours: 37 Change your career, change lives The Open University is the UK's largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education. Find out more about us and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link). About the Role Please note we may need to close this vacancy early (see below for full details and applicant support information). We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated Lecturer in Psychology. The role is located in the School of Psychology & Counselling and is associated with the Centre for Protecting Women Online, funded by Research England. The successful candidate will work closely with Professors Lisa Lazard and Rose Capdevila and the Human Behaviour team within the Centre. We are looking for a lecturer who would seek to play an active part in building the research culture in the Centre and who is committed to collaborative research. They will use their research knowledge, skills and grant bidding experience to conduct research activities, knowledge exchange and bidding. They will have an opportunity to collaborate with researchers in the centre to initiate, shape and develop funding applications which develop their own research. A successful candidate would also contribute to the School and Centre's publications and knowledge exchange activities. Relevant training and professional development opportunities will be made available. In the School of Psychology & Counselling, they will work in teams that produce and deliver innovative and exciting learning resources, focusing on the development and teaching of the British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited psychology qualifications. The Open University offers distance learning at scale. With modules taught using a combination of core textbooks, VLE materials and primarily online tutorials delivered by associate lecturers/tutors. If appointed, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to work as part of teams of fellow academics, editors and producers to create innovative teaching and learning materials using a variety of media. They will also join a team working on existing modules to offer support to students and associate lecturers. Project Description The Centre for Protecting Women Online is a research unit dedicated to understanding and addressing challenges posed to women's safety online through a novel, interdisciplinary and ambitious research agenda. This will be combined with cross-sectoral, collaborative outputs and interventions which inform law, policy, technology development and practice to reduce online harms suffered by women and girls; minimise anti-social behaviours online whilst promoting pro-social behaviours, and help build tech/software that helps ensure accountability, credibility, and facilitate justice. The work of the Centre is delivered through five interwoven Work Streams. Please visit our Centre website for further details - https://cpwo.open.ac.uk/ and LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/centre-for-protecting-women-online/ . Key Responsibilities The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to research and administration within the Centre for Protecting Women Online as well as the teaching and administration of the School, Faculty and University. Duties include, but are not limited to. Research: Play an active part in building and supporting the research culture of the Centre for Protecting Women Online as well as the School of Psychology & Counselling. Initiate and build collaborations with external partners and researchers. Initiate, lead on and contribute to innovative funding bids relevant to the Human Behaviour stream in collaboration with other researchers. Initiate and lead on research projects from start to completion. Take a lead role in the dissemination of research carried out within the Human Behaviour stream of the Centre (including writing academic and non-academic publications; presentation of research findings at conferences and events; communicating research to non-academic and lay audiences via media). Working with the Centre's Director and Work Stream leads to meet the strategic objectives set out in the Centre's plan. Lead on design and delivery of knowledge exchange and impact activities. Contribute to current research-related activities and projects in the Centre. Contribute to the delivery of the University's research and knowledge exchange strategy. Supervision of research students in areas aligned to the work of the centre. Teaching: Contribute to teams producing, presenting and updating relevant modules and qualifications for the School of Psychology & Counselling. An interest or expertise in Forensic Psychology would be particularly welcome. Contribute to teaching in areas aligned to the work of the Centre to groups/individuals from diverse backgrounds. Play a leadin

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