Lecturer Researcher in Phisiotherapy

About UIC Barcelona

UIC Barcelona is home to around 8,000 students and offers 16 bachelor’s degree programmes, around 30 international double degrees and a wide range of master's and postgraduate degrees, in addition to continuing education courses in different fields of knowledge. Since 1997, we have been teaching people based on a model of academic rigour, a fulfilling university life and enriching life experiences. Our UIC Barcelona team is made up of professionals who are qualified not only in their field of teaching, but also in research, management, administration, communication, services and systems. Beyond each individual’s professional endeavours, at UIC Barcelona you will also form part of a young and dynamic working environment.

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About the Physiotherapy Department

The Physiotherapy Department in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, offers a Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy, two Master’s Degrees and a number of continuing education courses. Also, it is characterized by the fact it undertakes innovative teaching and research projects through a senior research group and different focuses of research.

Our department is developing different strategies to adapt the academic curriculum of our physical therapy degree and our areas of research to the needs of the present society. This mission is supported and reinforced by the nature of our campus, which is consisting of six different degrees belonging to health sciences. This academic environment gives lecturers and researchers the possibility to develop their careers in an excellent standard.

https://www.uic.es/en/research-groups/health-sciences/phisiotherapy-based-evidence

What we are looking for

The Department of Physiotherapy wants to increase its research potential launching several teaching and research positions. We are looking for lecturers/professors at different stages of their academic careers who would like to join us to take on research, teaching or management tasks.

Young candidates can join our current research lines in the fields of pediatrics, manual therapy, biomechanics, sports and other secondary lines of research related to physical therapy. Senior candidates will be able to join us in line with their own research ideas and work alongside the other researchers they already work with. Any specialty of candidates will be accepted for this application.

The selected candidates will teach subjects that are taught in our Bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy, and our University Master’s Degree in Pediatric Physiotherapy and our Master’s degree in OMPT (Orthopedic Manual Therapy).

We offer

• A four-year tenure-track position with an intermediate evaluation (depending on the applicant’s background, the position could become permanent more quickly).
• We offer a full-time contract, a good working environment and a dynamic environment, flexible working hours and support for research.
• Depending on the candidate’s experience, we offer a research starting pack and a relocation aid pack.
• Salary: we offer a very competitive salary based on the qualifications and experience of the applicant.
• The position will be located at UIC Barcelona, in the Department of Physiotherapy.
• Start date: to be negotiated with the candidate. The desired start date would be as close as possible to 1 September 2022.

How to apply

All applications must include a full CV including contact details. We strongly recommend that you highlight the points that are under evaluation during this call.

Selection process

In May 2018, the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya received recognition from EURAXESS via an HR Excellence in Research Award that ensures that the selection of candidates is carried out only based on criteria for excellence. The UIC Barcelona selection process includes:

• An independent committee of experts who evaluate applications and decide who will move on to the next stage. All the committee members are from outside UIC-Barcelona.
• A public oral defense by finalists: presentation of their trajectory (both academic and teaching) and their research project/s. Following this presentation, the examining panel will ask several questions to conclude the defense. The exercise will take 60 minutes in total.

Deadline for applications

The application deadline is May 30th 2022.