Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Specified Purpose Contract), Department of Psychology, Maynooth University

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued. 

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in Psychology. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programmes of the Department which may include teaching in the areas of qualitative and quantitative research methods, lifespan development, individual differences, social psychology, cognitive psychology, mental health, or other core topics depending on background and expertise. The appointee will undertake supervision of Master’s students and research interns. 

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.