We are recruiting !  Senior Lecturer (Academic) in Tourism Marketing / Management (Fixed Term – Maternity Cover) 

At Bournemouth University our vision is to create a stimulating, challenging and rewarding university experience in a world-class learning community, through sharing a unique fusion of education, research and professional practice and inspiring our students and staff to enrich the world.

The Department of Tourism & Hospitality, located in the Faculty of Management at Bournemouth University, is a new Department, signalling investment and growth, and that builds upon Bournemouth’s existing excellence and global reputation for combining research, practice and teaching in tourism and hospitality.

As Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management you will be expected to strengthen the Department’s position as a high-level research institution in joining an active and productive group of scholars whose work coalesces around the interdisciplinary understanding of tourism and hospitality. You will also engage in attracting external grant funding, knowledge transfer, continuous professional development, consultancy and other forms of external engagement and professional practice, as appropriate.

Enthusiastic about student-centred pedagogy, you will contribute to education delivery, including programme management as required, across the range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. You will also make a significant contribution to employability, and professional engagement with relevant internal and external organisations, at a regional, national and international level.

You will be qualified to Doctorate level or be able to demonstrate the ability to create and disseminate knowledge at an equivalent level and the capability to convert this knowledge into a doctorate in a maximum of 3-5 years from the date of appointment. You will be research active and committed to a culture of academic excellence and continuous improvement.

For further information and discussion or the opportunity for an informal visit, please contact Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Head of Department by email on dbuhalis@bournemouth.ac.uk.

This post is available for up to 12 months on a fixed-term contract or secondment basis to provide maternity cover for an established member of staff. If you wish to be considered as an internal secondment you must speak to your line manager first.