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Grade: UE07: £40,497 - £48,149 per annum
College of Science & Engineering/School of Mathematics
Fixed term for either 18 or 21 months (depending on start date)
Full time: 35 hours per week
The Opportunity
The School of Mathematics is seeking to appoint a University Teacher with a focus on Statistics and Data Science. This is a fixed-term position for either 18 or 21 months (depending on start date) involving teaching across a range of our undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses.
Job Description
Grade: UE07: £40,497 - £48,149 per annum
College of Science & Engineering/School of Mathematics
Fixed term for either 18 or 21 months (depending on start date)
Full time: 35 hours per week
The Opportunity
The School of Mathematics is seeking to appoint a University Teacher with a focus on Statistics and Data Science. This is a fixed-term position for either 18 or 21 months (depending on start date) involving teaching across a range of our undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses.
The role will also include involvement in assessment of students, helping to develop courses and programmes, where this is appropriate, and teaching related administration, which could include providing academic support to students. There will be opportunities to take part in scholarship activities in our School.
The School takes career development seriously: we will mentor the post holder to develop key skills and experiences in teaching and learning and support participation in the Edinburgh Teaching Award, which leads to a Higher Education Academy Fellowship.
The post is available from September 2025 and is fixed term for either 18 or 21 months (depending on start date).
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
* A PhD in Statistics
* Experience and achievement in teaching within Higher Education reflected in a growing personal teaching portfolio
* Excellent written and oral communication skills in a range of contexts
* Good interpersonal and organisational skills
* Ability to plan and initiate activities and projects and develop self and others
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
* CV
* Cover letter clearly describing your suitability for the role as outlined in the job description.
Informal enquiries, which are welcomed, can be made by contacting Professor Miguel de Carvalho via Miguel.deCarvalho@ed.ac.uk
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
* A competitive salary.
* An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
* To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
* Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing Equality, Diversity And Inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 9 May 2025
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About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of Mathematics
The University of Edinburgh's School of Mathematics is one of the world’s leading mathematical sciences departments, home to world-class researchers and to an innovative educational environment for both undergraduates and postgraduates. We are proud to have a highly international faculty and students from around the world. As a School we value both the breadth and depth of our research and teaching.
We have around 110 permanent faculty and around 45 research fellows and research associates, who cover a broad range of research topics in pure and applied mathematics, operational research and statistics. The School has an enviable record of attracting prestigious fellowships and currently hosts, for instance, 6 ERC grant holders and 7 Royal Society University Research and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows. In the 2023 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects we are ranked 18 th among the world’s best Mathematics departments. Together with the Departments of Mathematics and Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, we form the Maxwell Institute; our joint submission to REF2021was ranked 3rd in the UK for Mathematical Sciences by research power, based on the quality and breadth of our combined research.
The School delivers a world-leading educational experience for its students and is constantly exploring new evidence-based ideas in mathematical education in order to provide a stimulating learning environment. There are excellent possibilities for imaginative curriculum development, including online activities, and course design and delivery. The School teaches pure and applied Mathematics, operational research and statistics. We have approximately 1000 undergraduate students, around 210 MSc students, and our Graduate School has close to 160 PhD students.
Edinburgh is home to the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, one of the UK’s two major conference centres in the mathematical sciences and operated jointly by the University with Heriot-Watt University. Over the past 30 years the centre has established a superb reputation for hosting workshops at the highest scientific level on all mathematical topics, attracting many of the best mathematicians in the world to the UK.
The School is located in the James Clerk Maxwell Building which is situated on the King's Buildings campus, approximately 3 kilometres south of the city centre.
Further information about the School, our research and our teaching is available on the School of Mathematics Website ( https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk ) (Opens in new browser tab)
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