Overview
Senior Lecturer or Reader in Public Health – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 500 experts in a wide range of population health sciences including women and children’s health, life course sciences, nutritional sciences, Health AI, preventive medicine and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women’s Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.
About the role
At a pivotal moment for rehabilitation, population health and health-services research, the appointee will provide academic leadership in public health and rehabilitation science within the Department of Population Health Sciences (soon to be the Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Science). They will develop an internationally excellent, impactful research programme addressing the delivery, organisation, evaluation and implementation of rehabilitation and physiotherapy-related care, with particular attention to function, recovery, long-term conditions, frailty, ageing, disability, health inequalities and patient/carer outcomes.
The postholder will help shape and lead public health research across the King’s Population Health Institute, the School of Life Course & Population Health Sciences, and King’s Health Partners, including collaborative grant development, postgraduate supervision, and cross‑disciplinary partnerships – enhancing King’s contribution to policy and society locally, nationally and globally.
As strategic lead for the MSc Public Health (Online), they will integrate research into lectures, seminars and asynchronous learning, champion inclusive digital pedagogy, and provide excellent pastoral support that inspires future public health leaders and evidence‑based practitioners.
This is a full time role (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
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