Assistant Professor in Environment & Society

Job description

Role : Assistant Professor in Environment & Society and Hoogenboom Scholarship programme leader Grade and Salary: Grade 7 (£37,694 - £47,389) / Grade 8 (£47,389 - £58,225) FTE and working pattern: Full Time (1FTE), Fixed Term for 5 years Annual Leave: 33 days, plus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday). Use our total rewards calculator: https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/work/total-rewards-calculator.htm to see the value of benefits provided. Detailed Description: Heriot-Watt University has been awarded a significant philanthropic gift to set up the Hoogenboom Scholarship programme which will fund 30 women from Africa to study for Masters courses that will provide them with the skills and knowledge to tackle environmental challenges confronting their home nations. The programme will run for five years (September 2026 onwards) and the Lyell Centre for Earth & Marine Science & Technology is responsible for ensuring the delivery of the programme. Students applying for this scholarship can choose from the following MSc courses: Global Environmental Change & Policy, Sustainable Geoenergy, International Marine Science. We wish to recruit an academic to join The L...