Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Sport and Health

Faculty of Health | Te Kaupeka Oranga
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wananga of Waitaha
Located in Christchurch, New Zealand | Aotearoa
- Full-time 37.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE each)
- Continuing (i.e. permanent) position
- Generous annual leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā_
- He hiahia, he pūkenga nōu ki te mahi a te Pūkenga / Pūkenga Matua / Ahorangi Tuarua? Nāia te pōwhiri nā Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha kia tono mai i te tūranga nei._

**Āu Mahi | What You Will Do**
Applications are invited for a full time, permanent position at Pūkenga | Lecturer or Pūkenga Matua l Senior Lecturer level within the Te Kaupeka Oranga | Faculty of Health. This is an exciting opportunity for an emerging or experienced academic scholar to make a significant contribution to research and teaching at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC). The successful applicant will provide significant contributions to teaching and the delivery of academic courses and programmes, engage in the full range of research activities, including postgraduate supervision, and undertake academic leadership and service duties within the programmes, Faculty and University. In particular, the successful applicant will join our Health and Sports Teams teaching into our Bachelor of Health Sciences, Bachelor in Sport, Master of Health and Masters of Sport Science programmes. Research and teaching expertise will include at least one of the following areas: physical activity, wellbeing, nutrition, community focused health services, epidemiology, population health in the areas of nutrition, diverse populations and/or addressing inequalities health.

**Mōu | Who You Are**

Applicants will need to demonstrate the following characteristics:

- hold a doctoral degree in Health / Sport or other relevant discipline
- relevant and effective tertiary teaching experience in their specialist area(s). Willingness and ability to both develop and lead undergraduate and postgraduate courses and contribute to teaching of other courses/majors physical activity and wellbeing area, as well as population nutrition and/or epidemiology.
- competency and confidence in bicultural practice, including a commitment to upholding the values, tikanga, kawa and traditions as guided by Ngāi Tūāhuriri, the mana whenua. Ability in te reo Māori me āna tikanga would be an advantage.
- at the senior lecturer level should have a record of successful supervision of research students.
- an appropriate research publication history, and plans for future research, grant funding and publication and consistent with appointment at Pūkenga | Lecturer or Pūkenga Matua | Senior Lecturer rank.

The successful applicant will have opportunities for national and international conference travel to support their research and teaching activities and will have the opportunity to network with international leaders their field through the University's unique Erskine and Canterbury Fellowship Schemes (which enables the University to host world leading academics) and through the University's academic staff exchange programmes with Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK.

**Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With**
Te Kaupeka Oranga | Faculty of Health offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and research activities that respond to the dynamic nature of the health and sport sectors and their workforce. We offer undergraduate programmes in Sport and Health Sciences as well as postgraduate programmes in Counselling, Social Work, Child and Family Psychology, Nursing, Health Leadership as well as various population health and clinical endorsements within the Postgraduate Diploma and Master of Health Sciences. For more information on our Faculty please visit us at Te Kaupeka Oranga | Faculty of Health

The Faculty offers exciting research and teaching opportunities through its home, in the Rehua building, located in the heart of UC's Ilam Campus with modern digital technologies and innovative learning and social spaces.

For information on our team and qualifications, click on the links to, the Faculty of Health and the Health Sciences | University of Canterbury and Sport and Sport Science | University of Canterbury

**Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC**
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We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates