UCL School of Management

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Assistant Professor in Creativity or Innovation in the Organizations and Innovation Group

The Organizations and Innovation Group at the UCL School of Management seeks applications for a faculty position at the Assistant Professor level. We are particularly interested in research related to creativity, innovation, and related topics. The anticipated start date is 1 September 2023. We welcome applications from candidates pursuing topics related to creativity and innovation from either macro- or micro-organizational behaviour. 

University College London (UCL) is one of the world’s top universities. With an annual turnover exceeding £1.5 billion, it is a major research and education hub in London and globally. UCL’s staff and former students have included over 34 Nobel prize winners. It is a truly international community: More than one-third of our student body come from 150 countries and nearly one-third of staff are from outside the UK. UCL offers more than 200 undergraduate programmes and more than 400 taught postgraduate programmes.

The UCL School of Management offers BSc, MSc, MBA and PhD programmes in Management, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Business Analytics, and Information Technology. See mgmt.ucl.ac.uk for more information about the school.

The School consists of five research groups: Organizations & Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Operations & Technology, Marketing & Analytics, and Finance, Accounting & Economics.

The Organizations and Innovation group includes research faculty members Martin Kilduff, Raina Brands, Cydney Dupree, Colin Fisher, Sarah Harvey, Anthony Klotz, Blaine Landis, Sunny Lee, Chia-Jung Tsay, Joshua Becker, Jim Berry, Clarissa Cortland, Felix Danbold, Verena Krause, and Tom Taiyi Yan, as well as PhD students and post-docs. The Organizations & Innovation Group, in line with the School’s focus, has built a strong, collegiate, and active research community. We provide generous research support, including the provision of research assistants. Our group, in liaison with the Strategy & Entrepreneurship Group, holds weekly internal brown bag seminars, and regularly invites leading scholars to present their work.

The UCL School of Management encourages diversity and a positive culture among all faculty, staff, and students. Our school is committed to building an intellectual community in which diversity, fairness, and inclusion are valued. UCL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications

Successful candidates should have a Ph.D. in a relevant field from an accredited institution, possess a strong research programme commensurate with the rank sought, and have impressive teaching credentials.

Application Instructions

Please submit your application materials here. The application deadline is August 31, 2022, but applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

For any questions about the position, please contact the Search Committee Chair, Raina Brands (r.brands@ucl.ac.uk). For application related questions, please contact our HR team (mgmt-hrsom@ucl.ac.uk).