Vice Chancellor’s Fellowship in Psychology

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking exceptional academic colleagues who have research plans which will have a remarkable impact on our disciplines and/or drive development of our Research Peaks, to join our Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship Scheme. As a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, you will have a permanent academic role, and for the first three years you will be supported to undertake independent and collaborative research, delivering an agreed research plan to make a significant contribution to the research profile of the University.

ABOUT THE RESEARCH AREA

We conduct world-class research across three key clusters: Cognition & Neuroscience, Evolution & Social Interaction, and Health, Wellbeing & Performance. We host three specialist labs—the Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre, Northumbria Sleep Research Lab, and PaCTLab—and lead university-wide initiatives including the Urban Futures theme, the UKRI CDT in Citizen-Centred AI, and a Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research. In REF 2021, 95% of our staff were submitted, earning us 15th place in the UK for research power, with 100% of our impact and environment rated 3–4*. Our researchers benefit from cutting-edge facilities including a 3DMD body scanner, Vicon motion capture, 128-channel EEG, eye-tracking systems, TMS, VR suite, sleep lab, psychophysiological tools, and wet labs. We support a thriving academic community with over 1,000 undergraduate and 200 postgraduate students across a range of in-person and distance learning programmes. We are committed to supporting our academic colleagues to enable high-quality research and collaboration. The department is proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, recognising our commitment to gender equality.

ABOUT YOU

We are seeking to appoint at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor. All applicants should hold a doctoral qualification and have demonstrable specialist expert knowledge and skills in the research area. All applicants are expected to provide a research plan including grant capture activities. For the Assistant Professor role, we expect applicants to have an established and growing publication record with ambitious plans to deliver an innovative research programme, positioning them to be future leaders in their field. For the Associate Professor and Professor roles, we expect applicants to be established academics with publication and research track records that demonstrate existing leadership in their field and include examples of successful innovative research projects, commensurate to the level of the role. For appointments at all levels, you must demonstrate a clear research plan for the period of the Fellowship.

TO APPLY

To apply for these vacancies please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter, CV and a two page 'Research Plan' which outlines how you would use the Fellowship period and including details of anticipated outputs, income and impact. Please ensure your CV includes research / education statements, and grants and publications list, highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of 4. For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount and your role. In addition, candidates are asked to provide copies of the top 3 research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio).

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance. We’d like to make you aware that the research panels are expected to take place during the week commencing 30th June 2025, with the main interview selection events anticipated during the weeks commencing 7th and 17th July 2025.

With over 37,000 students from 140+ countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and more. Our Northumbria Values, co-created by our team, define who we are: Academic Excellence, Innovation, Inclusivity, Collaboration, and Ambition. Our Behaviours shape our work culture: We listen and learn, support one another, respect everyone, trust each other, and are bold. Located in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation with flexibility in hours and location. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding numerous awards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.