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Professor / Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering and Environment

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Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Nov 3, 2019

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The Faculty of Engineering and Environment is passionate about the principles and applications of Science and Technology in all its forms and strives to be excellent in research, teaching and innovation.

Working within the Department of Mechanical and Construction Engineering, you will provide expertise in an area of Mechanical Engineering to further enhance research, teaching and entrepreneurial activities. The department has particular strengths in Renewable& Sustainable Energy, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Materials, Product Development & Manufacturing Technology.

We are seeking to appoint a Professor/Associate Professor to complement and expand our research in Mechanical Engineering. In particular, we are looking for candidates with research expertise in mechanical design.

As a senior Academic colleague, you will assist the Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor to maintain, enhance and improve the University's national and international reputation in your academic field. You must demonstrate continuing academic attainment and achievement and provide academic leadership (of your subject and associated colleagues), through active contribution to your discipline and to the life and work of the Faculty and the wider University. This will include contributing to significant change within practice, the discipline, profession and/or community at regional, national and international level.

To be successful in this role you will have externally recognised research outputs of a quality that are internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and demonstrable success in securing research funding. You should also demonstrate academic leadership experience and strong standing with external bodies and networks in your field.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, please contact Professor Laurent Dala: laurent.dala@northumbria.ac.uk

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now ',and submit a covering letter, CV including research / education statements, and grants and publications list. Please highlight your highest quality research outputs (please indicate a rank from 1 to 5) up to a maximum of 5, since 1 January 2014. In addition, candidates are asked to provide copies of the top 2 research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio). Where possible candidates are asked to combine all of these documents into a single file.

Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality and is a member of the Euraxess network, which delivers information and support to professional researchers.

Please note this vacancy will close on 03/11/2019

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