Professor in Cultural Leadership

Job description

The Faculty of Life, Sciences and Education is seeking to appoint a 0.4 Professor to work within the Hydra Research and Innovation Centre (HRIC). 

USW has a strong reputation for producing highly impactful and applied research with 81% of our research activity classed as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (4/3*).

Our vibrant, impactful research is contributing to solving real problems faced by our society, and our multidisciplinary research teams collaborate with industry, communities, and organisations to make a positive difference to lives. Our research is focused around four accelerator areas: Crime, Security, and Justice; Health and Well-being; Creative Innovation; and Sustainable Environment.

USW has enjoyed a long relationship with the Hydra Foundation and its immersive learning methodology in critical incident decision making but we are now delighted to have extended that by hosting the only Hydra Research and Innovation Centre in the UK at our Newport campus.

Our work with Hydra has traditionally focused on using immersive methods to aid teaching and learning. Working in collaboration with the Hydra Foundation, the Hydra RIC creates an environment to provide evidence-based research to inform future decision-making policy, procedure and practice with a specific initial focus on cultural leadership within emergency services and other organisations.

The post-holder will be a research leader and able to provide academic leadership of the growing research portfolio with line management of academic staff engaged in teaching, research, and enterprise. You will be educated to doctoral level, and have a proven track record of attracting externally competitive research funding, publications, and research student supervision. Working with Faculty colleagues you will have proven ability to inspire best practice, mentor and develop junior colleagues, whilst acting as a key leader and expert advisor. You will have experience in cultural leadership, have a strong profile in education, research and innovation and will be expected to further develop the excellent relationships that we hold with our partners across the university, Policing, Health and wider public sector organisations.

For an informal conversation about this post please contact Dr Gina Dolan

Discover the advantages of working for USW:

USW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All those working at the University are expected to share this commitment.

We are committed to employing a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment. Where colleagues can be themselves and every person is treated with dignity, fairness and respect. We actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and communities, especially with regards to age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, race and religion and/or belief. We benchmark our success through equality accreditations with Athena Swan, Race Equality Charter, Stonewall and Disability Confident.

If you’re a Welsh learner or a Welsh speaker, we’d be delighted to receive your application. At USW, you’ll have access to Welsh courses to enable you to develop your Welsh skills further, in order to provide a bilingual service to our students, colleagues and the public.

We welcome applications in Welsh and English. Applications in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than those made in English.