Overview
Lecturer (Education & Research) – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.
The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power. REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.
As of 2025, King’s is number 1 in the world for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.
Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.
We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.
About the role
These two posts are an outstanding development opportunity for talented individuals who wish to advance excellent and innovative research and education, especially on the care and support of children and young people with life limiting conditions or medical complexity, their families and the workforce that care for them.
These two Lecturer positions will be working with our Chair of Palliative Care and Child Health, Lorna Fraser.
Post 1 will support an NIHR funded programme, Improving Care for children with life-limiting Conditions: developing, adapting, impLementing and Evaluating interventions (ICICLE).
Post 2 will support the Kentown Centre of Excellence studies on social care and economic evaluation.
In both positions you will contribute to new grant applications and advise on studies to completion and publication, including supervision of research team members. You will also contribute to teaching, including module leadership and admissions roles and provide PhD and MSc supervision.
Post 1 – This post will be full-time (35 hours) in the Cicely Saunders Institute and will be funded until 30/11/2029 in the first instance.
Post 2 – This maternity leave cover post will be full-time (35 hours) in the Cicely Saunders Institute and will be funded for 12 months
We particularly seek applicants with experience and expertise of one or more of the following: developing or evaluating complex interventions, research in child health, especially those with complex or life-limiting conditions, or palliative care.
Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days per week on campus (Denmark Hill)
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