Stipendiary Lecturer and Researcher in Biochemistry

Stipendiary Lecturer and Researcher in Biochemistry Application Deadline: 3 September 2026 Department: Tutorial Office Employment Type: Fixed Term - Part Time Location: Central Oxford Reporting To: Dr Mark Pobjoy, Senior Tutor Compensation: £19,712 - £20,257 / year Description Applications are invited for a part-time fixed-term position as Stipendiary Lecturer and Researcher in Biochemistry, tenable for one year from 1 October 2026. Applicants should hold a doctorate or be close to completion. See section 3 below for details of the selection criteria for the post; details of the application procedure are given in section 6. Magdalen College Magdalen College was founded in 1458 by William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor, on the site of the Hospital of St John, just outside Oxford’s East Gate, near the centre of the modern city.  Its top priorities are academic excellence and the fostering of a supportive and inclusive community, and it is committed to the tutorial system as a personalised and intellectually challenging method for undergraduate teaching. It also seeks to provide an outstanding environment in which graduate students may flourish. In any one year there are approximately 400 Magdalen undergraduates and 270 graduates. The College prides itself on the welfare provision it offers its students, Magdalen’s staff now including a Dean for Welfare, a College Counsellor, and a College Mentor for Students, among many others with welfare responsibilities. The Governing Body of Magdalen consists of the President and 71 Fellows, including Professorial Fellows, Tutorial Fellows, and Fellows by Examination (Junior Research Fellows). The President of the College is Dinah Rose, KC. Further information is available on the College website at: https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk . The College has a strong representation in Medical Sciences, including three Tutorial Fellows in Medicine (Prof. Chris Garland, in Vascular Pharmacology, Prof. Stephen Goodwin, in Genetics, and Prof. Teresa Thurston, in Cell and Molecular Biology), one in Biochemistry (currently vacant), and one in Experimental Psychology (Prof. Lucy Bowes). The other Fellows in Medical Sciences at Magdalen are Prof. Richard Cornall (Nuffield Professor of Medicine and Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine), Prof. Daniel Freeman (Professor of Experimental Psychology), Prof. Adrian Hill (Director of the Jenner Institute and Lakshmi Mittal & Family Professor of Vaccinology), Prof. Xin Lu (Professor of Cancer Biology and Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford), Prof. Gero Miesenböck (Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour), Dr Lauren Phillips (Fellow by Examination in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), Prof. Maheshi Ramasamy (Professor of Infection and Vaccinology, and Florey Lecturer in Clinical Medicine), and Prof. Sir Peter Ratcliffe (Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Scholar of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and Director of Clinical Research at the Francis Crick Institute). The College also has very strong representations of Fellows and Tutors in Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences, in Social Sciences, and in Humanities. Besides the Tutorial Fellowship position in Biochemistry, the subject is also supported by a Stipendiary Lecturership position, held by Dr Dominic Alonzi. The College generally admits between 3 and 5 undergraduates each year to read Biochemistry. Duties of the Post The main duties of the post are as follows: (i)           to engage in independent research at an internationally competitive level in Biochemistry; (ii)        during Full Term (each of Oxford’s three Full Terms of the year is eight weeks long), to provide an average of six weighted hours of tutorial and class teaching per week for undergraduates reading Biochemistry, contributing also to first-year Biomedical Sciences and Pre-Clinical Medicine teaching; (iii)      to participate in the normal administrative duties associated with Biochemistry in the College, including the undergraduate admissions process; (iv)       to share pastoral duties with other teaching staff in College; (v)         to participate in outreach and access initiatives. For Biochemistry, teaching is expected within the following range (for details, see the course information available at: https://www.bioch.ox.ac.uk/our-courses ): - for the Preliminary Examination (Prelims) in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, including core topics such as molecular cell biology and biophysical chemistry; - for the Final Honour School (FHS) in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, including teaching for Blocks within the papers on Information Transfer, Cellular Chemistry, Molecular Processes in the Cell, and/or The Cell in Time and Space, as well as structural biology teaching as part of the Tool Boxes component of the course. In addition to giving tutorials and classes, the successful candidate will be requ