Lecturer; Assistant Professor in Hydrology

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Hydrology

Employer

University of Edinburgh

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The School of Geo Sciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity‑driven research and to support prescient decision‑making at individual to global scales. We undertake world‑leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter‑and trans‑disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.

With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.

A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system‑scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue‑skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability;

urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.

The School of Geo Sciences aims to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family‑friendly working.

• Geomorphology (GM)
• Hydrological Sciences (HS)
• Natural Hazards (NH)

Type

Full time

Level

Entry level

Preferred education

PhD

12 August 2026

Posted

15 July 2026

The School of Geo Sciences at the University of Edinburgh wishes to appoint a full‑time Lecturer in Hydrology on an open‑ended contract. We are seeking a committed and enthusiastic individual to join the teaching team for the BSc (Hons) Geography degree programmes and who has expertise in topics related to hydrological sciences. The successful candidate will contribute high quality teaching to the BSc (Hons) Geography degree programme and pursue excellent hydrological science research in the School of Geo Sciences.

The role will involve course design, delivery, assessment and organisation, practical‑based and field‑based teaching, pastoral care, and supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. The appointee will also pursue excellent research, engage in knowledge exchange, and contribute to Institute and School citizenship and administration.

The appointee will be a member of the Global Change Research Institute in the School of Geo Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. The institute is home to around 100 academic and research staff and 130 postgraduate researchers whose overarching mission is to understand past, present and future changes in the Earth system, and to inform mitigation strategies for future change.

We host longstanding programmes in understanding how the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, land surface and oceans have interacted in the past, in monitoring their current behaviour, and in developing predictions of their future dynamics. Building on these scientific foundations, we further engage in interdisciplinary research focussed on mitigating the many challenges posed by the global climate emergency, environmental hazards, inequalities, conservation and sustainability.

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