Assistant Lecturer Language and Literacy

Organisation/Company MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY Research Field Language sciences Literature Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Established Researcher (R3) Application Deadline 27 Aug 2026 - 00:00 (UTC) Country Ireland Type of Contract Other Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Department: Froebel Education
Vacancy ID: 043323
Closing Date: 27-Aug-2026

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in English Language and Literacy in the Primary School. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. They will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of Undergraduate student research. They will be expected to engage as a School Placement Tutor on undergraduate and postgraduate school placements.

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University's research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Closing Date:

23:30hrs (local Irish time) onThursday, the 27th of August 2026

Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer

The position is subject to the Statutes of the University