Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Information Behaviour

The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS), University of Strathclyde seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Information Behaviour. CIS provides one of the largest postgraduate programmes in Information and Library Studies in the UK, and is a member of the iSchools group, a coalition of the world's leading information schools.  Our SISRG (Strathclyde iSchool Research Group) research group is an interdisciplinary information science research group, investigating information behaviour, information engagement, digital cultural heritage, and interactive information retrieval. Much of our work is societal in nature, investigating human information need and use, and informing the design and delivery of public information systems and services.

We seek to recruit a, highly motivated scholar who will contribute to the research, teaching, and administrative activities of the school in the MSc and PhD programs. The successful applicant will have primary research interests and expertise in information behaviour.  The appointee will be expected to teach on the Department's masters programmes, with a particular focus on CILIP accredited courses and our modules on information law and ethics. We particularly encourage applicants with practical library experience.

Candidates for Lecturer level will demonstrate significant promise in their research discipline with a record of achievement in their career to date and demonstrate an ability to attract research funding. Candidates for Senior Lecturer level will already have a track record of scholarship and teaching experience, with a track record of research funding. They will have ambitious academic goals and an understanding of how to bring in the grant income required to fund those goals.

Salary range: Lecturer £42149 - £51799,  Senior Lecturer £53348 - £60022

Research Starter Grant: The Faculty of Science offers a Research Starter Grant to all new full-time, non-professorial, academic staff within the Faculty. The Grant may be used for any purpose that assists staff to establish their Strathclyde research career and to assist in attracting additional funding for research from external sources. Any grant awarded will be to a maximum of £10,000, and the planned expenditure of the award is normally for a period of 18 months. Departments may, however, add to the value of this award.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Ian Ruthven (Head of SiSRG) and/or Dr Martin Halvey (Director Postgraduate Teaching), ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>).

Formal interviews for this post will be held on week commencing 10/01/2022.

Full details on the position can be downloaded here - https://tinyurl.com/StrathInfoBehaviour Applications close 17/12/2021

Dr Martin Halvey
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Reader (Associate Professor) in Multimodal Interaction
Director Postgraduate Teaching
Course Director MSc Information Management
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
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[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
0141 553 6027


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