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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Department of Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship

Location: Egham, UK

Salary: See Advert

Post Type: Full Time, Permanent

Closing Date: Wednesday 10 May 2023

Reference: 0423-163

Available as either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (please use corresponding application link at the bottom of this advert).

·       Lecturer Salary is £46,548 to £54,975 per annum (including London Allowance)

·       Senior Lecturer Salary is £56,555 to £65,193 per annum (including London Allowance)

As an AACSB accredited Business School, our strategic vision is to be recognised as a centre of excellence, inspiring and empowering students, and staff to realise their full potential for the benefit of society. Inspired by the history and values of Royal Holloway, University of London as a leader for progressive education, we embed issues of ethics, sustainability, and inclusion as core parts of our distinctive offering.

Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive environment where faculty and students are enabled to tackle the big questions facing business and society equipping all with the skills and knowledge to thrive in the emergent, rapidly changing digital world. 

Our research is challenge-led and world leading. The 2021 Research Excellence framework indicated 82% of our research to be 'world-leading or internationally excellent', placing us in the top quartile in terms of outputs in the UK.  Our research is led by three Research Centres: Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS), Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organisations and Society (CHRONOS), and our centre for Digital Organisation and Society (DOS).  We are developing more research centres to cultivate activity in emerging disciplinary areas, business analytics, logistics and fintech to name a few, and encourage colleagues to work with the university's research catalysts.

This is an exciting time to join us as we are looking to build on our current successes, our heritage, and our strategic location, to become a leading School nationally and globally by investing in all areas of activity. We offer programmes at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, both nationally, from our Egham and Central London Campuses, and internationally, through our global partners, including Kaplan (Singapore) and Coursera.  Additionally the school is developing an ambitious portfolio of post experience programmes. 

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

The Department of Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship is currently expanding and seeking an outstanding lecturer/senior lecturer to join the current academic team. To be successful in the department team you must be passionate about teaching and learning, with a keen desire to prepare students for the changing digital world. This will be aligned to the demonstrable ability to teach and assess topics both in person and online at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels effectively and creatively, on both our Egham and London campuses, and in our international teaching (e.g. Singapore). 

As a department we are committed to multidisciplinary, collaborative and responsible research that engages with contemporary debates in policy, business, and society. We would be particularly interested to hear from researchers with teaching experience and track record in the following areas: 

·       Start-ups/new product development

·       Family businesses

·       Innovation

·       Corporate Entrepreneurship

We welcome candidates with prior business experience who wish to make an impact to the subject area through research, teaching, and knowledge exchange. Experience or interest in provision/design of short courses/exec education is desirable.

The successful candidate will have the potential and/or experience of developing a track record of impactful world-leading or internationally excellent research. Evidence of the potential and/or experience to develop relevant funding applications and an emerging track record of success is highly desirable. 

Our Department is committed to contributing to the School's approach to excellence in teaching through innovation with the purpose of creating managers capable of leading responsibly and recognising the importance of meeting needs of all stakeholders. In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:

·       Generous annual leave entitlement

·       Training and Development opportunities

·       Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution

·       Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.

·       Free parking

The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park, but you will be required to undertake some work at other locations including at our Central London Campus and abroad. 

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Sigrun Wagner sigrun.m.wagner@rhul.ac.uk  Head of Department for Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship. 

For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk

·       To apply for Lecturer please click here: https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=0423-164

·       To apply for Senior Lecturer please click here: https://jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=0423-165

Please quote the reference: 0423-163

Closing Date:  23:59, 10 May 2023  

Interview Date: To be confirmed

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Hsing-Fen Lee
Royal Holloway, University of London
EGHAM
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