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Postdoctoral
Development
Centre

Lectureships: Ready, Set, Go!

Practical information

  • Audience: Postdocs and research staff at Queen's (priority to individuals with AC2/AC3 grade contracts, e.g. Research Fellows, Senior Research Fellows)
  • Date and time: Tuesday 25 March 2025, 09:30 - 16:30
  • Length: 1 day
  • Place: R&E Seminar Room, First Floor, 63 University Road
  • Number of places: 20 - *We anticipate high interest in this course and will keep a waiting list in the event of oversubscription. Places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Organised by: PDC

Content

This full-day interactive course is designed to provide you with useful information to help you prepare for the next stage of your academic career.  Is a lectureship the right thing for you? Can you make your academic career ambitions a reality?  What is the application process like?  What are the key skills recruiters are looking for in a lecturer?  Where are the gaps in your CV?  What can you do now to start filling in those missing areas?

The course will focus on the lectureship role (and applications) in the morning and developing participants' CVs in the afternoon.

Programme Objectives

By the end of the session participants will have:
  • Reflected on their current experience and how to articulate this in a lectureship application
  • Identified what institutions are looking for in a lectureship
  • Analysed senior CVs and identified gaps in their own CV
  • Provided peer feedback 
  • A plan for next steps 

Participants are required to bring a copy of their CV with them on the day of the course.

Registration

Priority on this course is given to research staff on grade AC2/AC3 contracts, e.g., Research Fellows/Senior Research Fellows and places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Register for Lectureships: Ready, Set, Go!

Facilitator

Dr Anna Seabourne

Anna Seabourne has more than 23 years' experience working in Higher Education, with 15 of these years spent in the United Kingdom. She spent 12 years working in Japanese further and higher education, including a pioneering initiative preparing Japanese graduates for work in international organisations.

Anna's PhD used communities of practice theory to research education and self-development in a classical Japanese martial art. Anna is passionate about researcher development and holds postgraduate qualifications in education, coaching, library and information science, and leadership and management. She has worked in a variety of academic related professional service roles in UK Higher Education.

Anna has reviewed hundreds of postdocs' and fellows' applications for a variety of roles and has run a similar number of lectureship mock interviews.

View Anna's Linktree site to find out more/connect with Anna

Feedback

Rating (out of 5): 4.5

Recommended by: 100%

Number of feedback provided: 13

Quote: “A very worthwhile course and time well spent. Karen was an excellent facilitator and I gained lots of extremely useful information. I feel more confident now to proceed with a Lecturer application.” (Participant, March 2023)