Serious Brain Power – a reminder!
I’ve posted already about this initiative, but there’s no harm doing a bit of re-advertising on behalf of Cardiff University’s new recruitment campaign which has the slogan Serious Brain Power. A major initiative is under way to attract high quality researchers to Cardff (either at Chair level for established academics or at the level of a Fellowship for those earlier in their careers) across a range of academic disciplines, including STEM subjects.
In the School of Physics & Astronomy we’ve already appointed four new lecturers in Physics over the last year, and will also be joined by a new Professor of Experimental Physics next year, all independently of this scheme, but it would be great if we could attract even more excellent new people into the School via the new initiative; for an advert see here.
At fellowship level the positions provide a greater degree of independence than a normal postdoctoral research assistantship, including the possibility to direct one’s own research programme. The number of similar positions funded by research councils is dwindling owing to cutbacks in the research council budgets, making such a post a particularly valuable and attractive proposition.
Although this is a personal blog, and therefore not officially part of the recruitment campaign, it occurred to me that readers of this blog might well be interested in these opportunities, hence the reason for posting this message. Applicants for astronomy and cosmology would be welcomed, by me at any rate! It’s a rare opportunity to join a Physics department that’s actually growing in size…
To find out more about the Fellowships and Chairs, see here. Feel free to contact me informally if you have any questions, and please also feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested!
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In the Dark 
January 23, 2012 at 8:53 am
Just out of interest, how much does a Chair earn at Cardiff?
January 23, 2012 at 9:17 am
How much does a chair earn, or how much does one get paid?
😉
January 23, 2012 at 9:33 am
But seriously, professorial salaries are negotiated at commencement (not on a fixed salary scale as more junior positions). At Cardiff the professorial scale starts at £59354 p.a., so the salary would be above that.
January 23, 2012 at 4:14 pm
I have no idea.
January 23, 2012 at 6:07 pm
In response to Philip (I am never sure how many indents the reply button refers to):
About 5 years ago, in response to professorial dissatisfaction at salaries, I emailed professorial colleagues at a variety of universities, and asked if they would send copies of professorial salary scales. I got responses from most, and as I recall, most universities were around the same level, +/- a couple of £k. I excluded Ox and Cam from consideration, because they have complex deals involving colleges and fellowships and things
January 23, 2012 at 6:15 pm
All I’m willing to say is that I’m more than happy with my own salary 🙂
January 28, 2012 at 3:05 am
Hmmm – given the exchange rate at the moment, I think I might stay put for now 🙂
January 23, 2012 at 8:15 pm
The Times Higher annually publishes each UK university’s average salary for each grade, including professors. Eg see (hopefully available without subscription)
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=415610
The average professor (which I suppose means someone of around 10 years experience at that grade) earns about 75,000 pounds, but with quite significant variation between institutes.
I see that Cardiff professors on average earn almost 10,000 pounds a year more than Sussex ones. No wonder Peter is so happy!
Andrew
January 23, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Go to the bottom of the last page and you’ll find the answer to your question…