Teaching Fellow - School of Psychology Grade 7

Job Description

School of Psychology

• Location:
  
  University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
• Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822
• Grade: 7
• Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to August 2028
• Closing date: 18 th June 2026

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is one of the UK’s leading centres for Psychology research and education. Home to over 120 academic staff, the School has internationally recognised strengths in mental health, lifespan development, and brain health, and delivers highly rated, BPS accredited undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Building on the success of our BPS-accredited provision, we have recently added an MSc Psychology (Conversion) programme to our portfolio.

The programme is designed for students wishing to attain BPS Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC), with the inaugural cohort starting in the 2026/27 academic year.

You will contribute to a range of education-related activities. In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students, and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others carry out theirs. You will contribute to a range of teaching and administration duties on the MSc Psychology (Conversion) as well as, where appropriate, other courses delivered by the School of Psychology.

We are particularly looking for someone with an ability to teach Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, and Research Methods.

• You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:
• Contribute to leading programme development.
• Develop and manage approaches to teaching and learning that are best practice in the subject area or institution.
• Advance the practice of teaching in their modules and within the school, and play an important role in student academic support.
• Frequently update your subject expertise, and undertake personal professional development in teaching, including self-reflection on own teaching, using student and peer review feedback, to enhance own teaching and learning processes.
• You may play an important role in the recruitment and admission of students; and co-supervise doctoral students to completion.
• Using a variety of methods in teaching and advising individuals and groups of undergraduates, postgraduates, or CPD students, including (as appropriate):
  • Teaching and examining courses at a range of levels.
  • Planning and reviewing your own teaching approaches and encouraging others to do the same.
  • Designing contemporary, inclusive, engaging and academically challenging curriculum content.
  • Working collaboratively with colleagues to design and deliver teaching, learning and assessment.
  • Using digital resources/environments effectively to support learning and assessment.
  • Developing programme proposals and making substantial contributions to the design of teaching programmes more widely.
  • Where appropriate, undertaking and developing the full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking and examining.
  • Developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks and methods.
  • Devising and supervising projects, student dissertations and practical work.

To contribute to School administration. This may include:

• Contributing to the administration/management of teaching across the School.
• Making a contribution to administrative activities within the University (e.g. appeals panels, working groups).
• Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation and actively challenging unacceptable behaviour.

Contributing to an inclusive working environment:

• Pursuing your activities in a way that helps others to pursue their activities effectively and efficiently.
• Demonstrating a willingness to be involved in a variety of activities supporting University life (e.g., participation in graduation, School committees).
• Demonstrating support for colleagues, such as sharing resources, providing advice.
• Willingness…