About the Role

As a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, you will make a significant contribution to teaching, research and academic development within the Department of Sport and Physical Activity. You will play a key role in delivering high quality, research led teaching across our Sport and Exercise Science programmes, including the supervision of undergraduate dissertations and, where appropriate, postgraduate research students.

You will contribute to the delivery of core modules aligned to your expertise and experience, with particular opportunities to teach in areas such as Exercise Physiology, Exercise and Health, Clinical Exercise Physiology and Applied Practices in Exercise and Health Science. Through your teaching, supervision, and personal tutor duties, you will support students to achieve their academic potential and progress into graduate employment or further study in line with their aspirations.

Alongside your teaching responsibilities, you will be expected to contribute to the research activities of one of the Department’s Research Units and to meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence Framework. You will play an active role in strengthening the quality, impact and profile of the Department’s research and/or in expanding knowledge exchange and continuing professional development activity aligned to departmental and institutional priorities.

You will also contribute to the wider academic life of the Department, including curriculum development, student recruitment and engagement, and the delivery of an excellent student experience supported by outstanding specialist facilities at the Ormskirk campus.

As part of the University’s ongoing commitment to redeployment, please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any stage of the recruitment process if a suitable redeployee is identified.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Dr Kelly Marrin, at marrink@edgehill.ac.uk

About You

You will be an enthusiastic, collaborative and student focused academic with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a strong commitment to delivering an outstanding teaching and learning experience. You will be an experienced and effective academic with a clear understanding of the professional competencies defined by our endorsing body, the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES), and a passion for evidence based teaching practice.

You will have an established or developing research profile in Exercise Physiology, alongside substantial teaching experience at undergraduate level and, where appropriate, postgraduate level. You will be committed to maintaining and expanding your research and/or knowledge exchange activity, and to engaging in ongoing professional development that aligns with the strategic priorities of the Department.

Your qualifications, experience and professional approach will demonstrate your commitment to enriching the student experience through subject expertise, high quality teaching and active engagement with research. In return, you will join a supportive, ambitious and forward thinking Sport and Exercise Science team within a vibrant department recognised nationally for excellence in teaching, research and impact. 

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & Benefits

•    A minimum of 48 days annual leave per annum, pro rata (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days).

•    Relocation and Visa Assistance Policies (subject to eligibility criteria). 

•    Access to a range of CPD to support your career development, with three defined pathways for progression.

•    Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and health & wellbeing resources.

•    Automatic enrolment into the Teacher’s Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 28.68%

•    Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities

•    Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.

•    Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.

About Us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.