Chairs Institute of Education, University of London

£ Attractive salary offered

Central London

Lead current thinking at a globally-recognised research powerhouse.

The Institute of Education (IOE), University of London, is a vibrant, world-leading centre for education and related areas of social science. With over 6,000 students and 800 staff, we are active in every continent and we attract more education research funding than any other UK university. In fact, we're consistently placed as one of the top three recipients of social science research funding in the UK.

Our location at the heart of the UK's capital city reflects our position at the centre of influencing policy and practice. We are now looking to recruit exceptional academics, with an outstanding reputation for the quality of their publications, research leadership and expertise, to contribute to our work and ensure that we remain at the cutting edge of current thinking and research.

Take on a Chair (Professorship) at one of the UK's premier research institutions.

We currently have up to six Chairs (Professorships) available within our distinguished professoriate. Whatever your specialist subject, you will be committed to delivering the highest quality research-led teaching, willing to undertake other third stream activities such as consultancy, and ready to help us influence thinking worldwide about social research in the 21st century. We're particularly keen to receive applications from those in the following fields:

• Quantitative economic and social research and quantitative methods
• Education leadership and system reform
• Assessment and psychometrics
• Languages in education, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, bi-and multilingual learners and intercultural communication
• Arts education, digital arts and curatorial practices in galleries, museums and elsewhere
• Technologies and innovation
• Schooling, school processes and school quality, including patterns of inequality
• Psychological dimensions of learning including neuroscience, epigenomics, and health
• Early learning and child development
• Family processes, family dynamics, early intervention, health education and health policy
• Learners and learner experiences, including individual learning needs
• Teachers and teaching including pedagogic innovation and curriculum development
• Education and International development

To join us, you must be a world-leading academic with an outstanding reputation for the quality of your publications and the expertise to engage with policy issues in your field. As well as compelling plans for future research leadership and development, you will bring the commitment to help the Institute achieve even greater things.

In return, we'll provide a comprehensive programme of support and an attractive salary, relocation and benefits package .

Our ambitions are wide-ranging: if you can help us to shape the future of the social sciences through exceptional research and the highest quality research-led teaching, we would like to hear from you.

Closing date: 18 May 2012.

For further details please visit our website by clicking 'Apply online' below or call 020 7911 5516.