Career Opportunities at Queen's

About the job:

The School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast invites applications for a fixed-term Teaching Fellow to provide cover during a funded Research Fellowship period (12 months, starting September 2026).

This post is within a dynamic, research-active school that delivers MPharm and BSc Pharmacy programmes to a large undergraduate cohort. The successful candidate will join a collegial team of academic staff and contribute meaningfully to both teaching delivery and the school's research culture.

The primary purpose of the role is to ensure continuity of high-quality teaching and student support across five undergraduate modules spanning pharmaceutical sciences. The role also carries a research component, with the opportunity to contribute to an internationally collaborative computational pharmacology project investigating allosteric communication in G protein-coupled receptors, using molecular dynamics simulations and network analysis.

Teaching responsibilities include delivering lectures and tutorials, supervising final-year research projects, marking examinations for a cohort of over 300 students, and providing personal tutoring to a small group of undergraduate students. Administrative duties include committee participation and contribution to programme coordination activities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career researcher in pharmaceutical sciences or a closely related discipline to gain substantial teaching experience within a research-intensive university while maintaining an active research profile.

About the Person:

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following criteria:

Essential Criteria

• We are seeking an enthusiastic and knowledgeable academic/researcher with a strong foundation in pharmaceutical sciences or a closely related discipline, who can deliver high-quality teaching across our undergraduate pharmacy programmes while contributing to an active computational research project.
• Applicant has or is about to obtain a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, computational chemistry, or a cognate discipline.
• A demonstrable ability to deliver undergraduate teaching across pharmacy or life sciences modules is required, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills to engage diverse student cohorts effectively.
• Experience in molecular dynamics simulations and computational modelling of proteins, with demonstrable ability to work independently on a research programme.
• Candidates must have sufficient subject expertise in pharmaceutical sciences to deliver lectures and tutorials across MPharm and BSc Pharmacy programmes at all undergraduate levels, and the capacity to supervise final-year research projects and provide pastoral support to undergraduate students.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience or strong interest in computational approaches to protein modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, or structural pharmacology would be highly advantageous, given the research component of this role.
• Familiarity with G protein-coupled receptor biology or allosteric pharmacology is desirable.
• Prior teaching experience in a higher education setting, or possession of a PGCE or equivalent teaching qualification, would strengthen an application.
• Experience with high-performance computing environments is also welcome.
• The successful candidate will be organised, collegial, and capable of managing a varied workload spanning teaching, student support, administrative duties, and research activity. A commitment to maintaining the high teaching quality standards established within these programmes is essential.

To be successful at shortlisting stage, please ensure you clearly evidence in your application how you meet the essential and, where applicable, desirable criteria listed in the Candidate Information.

This is a fixed-term post for 12 months. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

What we offer:

Beyond a competitive salary, the University offers an attractive benefits package including a holiday entitlement of up to 8.4 weeks a year, pension schemes and development opportunities. We support staff wellbeing with flexible working options, work-life balance initiatives and support for physical and mental health. You can find more detail on all of this and more at https://www.qub.ac.uk/directorates/HumanResources/pay-reward-and-benefits

Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI and Athena Swan and have established staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.  For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit www.qub.ac.uk/diversity

If you are an international applicant and don't already hold a visa that permits you to take up the role you are applying for, please use the information provided on our website to self-assess whether the University is likely to be able to support a visa application - http://go.qub.ac.uk/internationalstaffsupport

Candidate Information