King's College London

About us

King’s College London is seeking to recruit a Professor of Engineering to contribute to our programme of internationally excellent research and to lead on ambitious plans to grow our undergraduate education portfolio. We are in the process of integrating elements of the first year of our existing programmes in electronic engineering, general engineering and biomedical engineering; in addition, we plan to develop new programmes in other branches of engineering to which elements of the newly integrated first year would also contribute.

The post-holder will act as the academic lead for this integration, which will underpin our ambitious plans for growth, playing a prominent role in helping to shape and deliver the strategic development of engineering programmes at King’s College London.

Engineering at King’s College London is delivered across two academic units: the Department of Engineering (Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences) and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine).

The successful applicant will be appointed to the unit most closely aligned with their research interests, while exercising a cross-faculty remit.

They will play a central role in driving collaboration across both faculties, leading the educational integration and portfolio growth project, and will be jointly accountable to the Vice Dean Education in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences, and the Dean of Bioscience Education in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine.

The post-holder will provide inspirational vision and leadership, demonstrating an ability to work across departmental and faculty boundaries to deliver complex education change projects, at large scale and at pace. Alongside this, they will be internationally recognised as an expert in their own field, continuing a full and active programme of research commensurate with an academic post at this level.

About the Department of Engineering

We are a vibrant, diverse Department that looks to lead innovation in education and research at one of the world’s leading universities. To support our ambition, King’s has invested in new multi-million-pound teaching and research laboratories of more than 3000 sqm for the Department at heart of its Strand campus, which opened in August 2022.

We celebrate diversity and actively promote an inclusive environment and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups. In moving our ambitions forward, we are continuing to appoint academics to join us in shaping the future of education and research for King’s Engineering. We offer undergraduate and postgraduate education, with a distinctive approach, combining traditional teaching methods with modern, project-based learning, catering for the needs of our students and the industries in which they will work.  It is essential that applicants have the enthusiasm and commitment needed to ensure the success of these programmes.

Further information about the Department of Engineering may be found at https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering.

About the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences

The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences is a cutting-edge research and teaching School dedicated to development, translation and clinical application within healthcare technologies. Our objective is to facilitate research and teaching guided by clinical questions and is aimed at novelty, understanding of physiology and pathophysiology as well as development of new diagnostic tools and therapies. In this way, basic science can be rapidly translated into clinical applications (and vice versa).

The School consists of eight research departments: Cardiovascular Imaging, Cancer Imaging, Early Life Imaging, Imaging Chemistry & Biology, Biomedical Computing, Surgical & Interventional Engineering, Imaging Physics & Engineering, and Digital Twins for Healthcare. Our staff and students comprise physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians and clinicians working together in a highly cross-disciplinary way.

The chemists and biologists develop new contrast agents and radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging; the physicists and engineers develop hardware and instrumentation; and the computer scientists and mathematicians develop computational methodologies; meanwhile, the clinicians apply them in the clinic in a wide range of areas, such as cardiology, vascular surgery, cancer, neurology, paediatrics, nuclear medicine and radiology.

This interdisciplinary group encourages the generation of projects far beyond classic research by combining the skills and equipment of basic scientists with those of clinical researchers.  Our proactive approach to collaboration with other departments and Schools, both in basic sciences and clinical sciences, means that we widen the use of healthcare technologies and maximise the benefit to patients. There is a close and vital relationship in our work between problem solving in clinical and biomedical application areas and methodological research in the basic disciplines.

Further information about the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences may be found at

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/bmeis/index.aspx 

About the role

The role holder will:

• Lead a cross-faculty programme to design and implement a delivery framework that facilities a common curriculum across Biomedical, General and Electronic Engineering and supporting the growth of the portfolio of courses on offer. This will be done in a manner that complements and builds on successful existing pedagogies seeking to make these work at large-scale.
• Act as the lead of the suite of elements comprising integrated engineering education, ensuring they deliver an excellent student experience and that they serve as a strong academic platform for the programmes to which they contribute.
• Convene and chair a cross-faculty group of academic and professional services colleagues involved with the design and delivery of the integration and growth project – reporting to the relevant Education Committees (on which they will sit) in each faculty. In this way, they will act as key bridge between the engineering units involved.
• Ensure that skills development, employability, academic rigour and an excellent student experience are embedded in across the first year of our renewed suite of undergraduate degrees.
• Assist with, and lead where required, aspects of the development and implementation of strategy across engineering. They will also play an important role in the development and implementation of strategic initiative spanning the discipline of engineering more widely across King’s.
• Contribute to teaching of the integrated components of undergraduate programmes and will be required to have a professional qualification for university teaching. They will act as Personal Tutor, supervisor of project students and will carry out other such teaching responsibilities as required within their overall allocated workload.
• Pursue a programme of internationally excellent research in an area that aligns with the existing research strategy for engineering across King’s, including supervising research degree students, producing research outputs and securing grant funding at a level commensurate with expectations for a Professor at King’s.
• Contribute to enterprise and engagement activity across both faculties, ensuring their work has demonstrable external impact.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1.       First Degree and/or Masters in relevant subject; PhD (or equivalent) level in Engineering or related subject; a professional qualification in university teaching.

2.       In-depth understanding of their research to enable the development of new knowledge, innovation and understanding within the field, a strong publication record for original research and track record in obtaining research funding and leading a research group.

3.       A strong record of successful supervision of research degree students.

4.       A comprehensive understanding of engineering education pedagogies, significant experience of leading the delivery of engineering degrees and a clear understanding of the accreditation of engineering degree programmes.

5.       Demonstrable experience of exceptional teaching and making an impactful contribution to enhancing the student experience in an HE setting and experience of leading successful large-scale education change projects.

6.       Proven ability to work collaboratively across departmental boundaries, with a collegiate approach, excellent stakeholder engagement and the ability to plan and prioritise workloads effectively.

7.       Ability to contribute to the development of a collegiate department with a dynamic, inspirational research and education culture together with an inclusive environment that is able to make the most of diverse talents and ideas.

8.       Effective communication skills, to engage audiences, convey conceptual and complex ideas and information, and articulate a research vision.

Desirable criteria

1.       Experience of student support through personal tutoring or related activities.

2.       Adept at leading and developing talents of others to work across disciplinary boundaries.

3.       Experience of effectively chairing committees and/or working groups.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.