LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, Armidale, New South Wales

LECTURER IN PSYCHOLOGY

Department: School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
ACU Ref: 59004
Closing Date: 20 January 2012

Come to UNE to join a psychology discipline that has an enviable record of research and teaching and provides one of Australia’s most successful and well-established programs in distance education. The discipline has a staff of 20 academics, technical and administrative support, and an extensive range of teaching, library, computing, and research facilities, including an auditory laboratory.

The successful applicant to the position (equivalent to assistant professor) will conduct research, supervise honours and PhD students, contribute to the teaching of our undergraduate and fourth year programs in psychology, and coordinate an undergraduate psychology unit in perception and perceptual impairment. Perception and perceptual impairment will be delivered in face-to-face classes for on-campus students, and online for off-campus students (these students also attend a 3-day intensive school on campus).

Applicants must have a PhD in psychology, be able to teach perception and perceptual impairment, have a strong or emerging research profile in psychology relative to stage of career, and show evidence of strong teaching performance and strong organizational skills.

Armidale is a unique rural centre in the heart of the New England district of Northern New South Wales, Australia. It is a university city with a sophisticated lifestyle and surrounded by the state's most magnificent national parks. For information about Armidale visit: www.armidaleregion.com.au.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Dr Sue Watt, phone: 61 2 6773 2153 or email: sue.watt@une.edu.au. For further information about Psychology at UNE visit: www.une.edu.au/bcss/psychology/. For further information about the School visit: www.une.edu.au/bcss/

Salary: A$77,416 to A$91,751 per annum (Lecturer) plus 17% employer superannuation and optional salary packaging

Closing Date: 20 January 2012

Reference No: 211/126

The full advertisement, including selection criteria that must be addressed, may be obtained from www.une.edu.au/recruit or by phoning Human Resource Services, +61 2 6773 3972

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