Lancaster Medical School seeks to appoint a highly qualified expert in medical ethics and law to the role of Senior Teaching Associate in Medical Ethics and Law. This is a fixed term appointment to provide cover for a temporary absence.
You will work with the co-directors of the Medical Ethics and Law curriculum theme at Lancaster Medical School to develop and deliver high quality, innovative teaching and assessment in medical ethics and law as part of the undergraduate medical programme. You will work closely and flexibly as a team with members of the Medical Ethics and Law theme. This will involve providing administrative support for teaching and assessment where necessary for the theme, attending key meetings, assessment boards and assessment activities, and admissions activities.
You will contribute more generally to teaching, learning and assessment across the portfolio of provision in LMS according to their experience, for example by supervising student projects as part of the Special Study Modules programme, and facilitating Problem Based Learning.
You will develop and deliver their teaching activity in line with requirements by the GMC and the needs of the Medical Ethics and Law Theme as set out by the Co-Directors Dr John Appleby and Dr Faye Tucker. Lancaster Medical School is based on the Lancaster University campus in the Health Innovation One building.
The Faculty provides an environment that strongly supports the individual needs of each employee, promoting a healthy work-life balance. We are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis, as well as the Athena SWAN Charter, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in higher education.
Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Faye Tucker (
[email protected]).
This post is available from 16 November 2026, and the successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching until 28 May 2027.
General information about Lancaster Medical School can be found on the Divisional web site: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lms/, while information about the Faculty of Health and medicine can be found on the Faculty web site; http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fhm/, and additional information about Lancaster University can be found at: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/.
We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups and are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this post, including working week, flexible start/finish times or condensed hours.
