Senior Lecturer In Computer Science

Description:

Applications are invited for one academic position as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire within the Human Centred Computing Group.

The department has an international reputation for teaching and research, with nearly 90 academic staff, divided into five academic subject groups. In addition, we support 150 adjunct staff, and 70 research students and postdoctoral research staff. With a history going back to 1965, the department supports one of the largest cohorts of students in the UK, including thriving online provision.

Main duties and responsibilities

The Senior Lecturer will provide high quality teaching, research and module leadership in Computer Science with expertise that will contribute to our Human Centred Computing group with demonstrable experience and expertise in all or some of the following areas:

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

• Accessibility conformance testing

• HTML, CSS and JavaScript

• Experience with WAVE, Google Lighthouse or similar tools

You will also provide pastoral and academic support for home and international students, and will play an important role as part of a team incorporating the Head of Department or Subject Group Leader, programme leader, module leaders, the professional, administrative and technical staff (if applicable), the Dean of School and the Associate Deans of School.

You will also be expected to contribute to teaching in mainstream areas of Computer Science, and modules with particularly large groups of students.