SEED departmental roles

Ensuring that our School is as inclusive as possible is a fundamental part of what we do in SEED. We aim to redress staffing imbalances and inequalities. We promote equality and actively challenge unfair discrimination. One of our priorities in our EDI strategic plan in SEED focuses on fair leadership and progression. 

When we recruit to academic leadership roles, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – people of all ages, sexual orientations, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, and beliefs. We particularly encourage applications from women, disabled colleagues, and racially minoritised colleagues, because these groups are currently underrepresented at more senior levels in Higher Education.  

As part of our EDI and Athena Swan commitments for greater transparency and equal access to opportunities, and as an important step in enhancing the fairness of progression for academic staff, our short-term focus is to clearly summarise role holders, and tenures, for the department roles summarised below. We are defining standard SEED job descriptions for these roles which, once in place, will support all future recruitment to the roles. A standard recruitment process to the posts will apply across departments, mirroring recruitment to school roles. 

Links to the standard department job specifications will be added here once approved by School Executive.