Medical and Human Sciences

Our Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences is a leading international centre for research and education in medicine and a spectrum of health-related professions including nursing, midwifery, social work, pharmacy, dentistry, psychology, audiology and speech and language therapy. The Faculty has just completed a major review which has led to a new strategy and structure intended to enhance our research and teaching performance. The new strategy will focus our research effort in 6 priority areas:

• Human development including women's and children's health
• Cardiovascular sciences
• Cancer science
• Inflammation and repair
• Brain, behaviour and mental health
• Population and health sciences

The Faculty has a total income of £187 million, around 7,000 undergraduate students and over two thousand postgraduate students. The Faculty is the academic partner in MAHSC (Manchester Academic Health Science Centre) linking with four NHS Foundation Trusts, a Mental Health Trust and Primary Care Trust providing outstanding links and opportunities for clinical and translational research.

Links and collaboration

As can be seen at www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk, the Faculty has a diverse portfolio of the highest quality teaching and research activity, represented through our component Schools:

• Dentistry
• Medicine
• Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
• Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Psychological Sciences

Strong collaborative links underpin each of them. Working in partnership with industry, the Department of Health and the NHS, we understand the importance of cross-faculty teaching and research activity. The Faculty has strong relationships with outstanding NHS partners which are critical in achieving our mission. Six of these NHS Partners have joined with The University of Manchester to create MAHSC (Manchester Academic Health Science Centre) the only Department of Health-accredited Academic Health Science Centre outside the South-East. MAHSC provides unprecedented opportunities to ensure research and education to impact on clinical care on a large scale. The Faculty, University and NHS partners, through MAHSC, are all set in the context of the social, economic and health needs of the Greater Manchester region and population. This setting of a large, stable population with challenging health problems and needs provides a perfect opportunity for progress of both local and global significance.

One recent example of collaborative research across faculties and with industry is the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR). The faculties of Medical and Human Sciences and Life Sciences together with GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca have created the MCCIR, a unique venture that will see the establishment in the UK of a world-leading centre for research on inflammation and inflammatory diseases, by bringing together the best industrial and academic scientists in state-of-the-art facilities.

Recruitment

Following a major review of the Faculty, which has led to a new strategy and structure intended to enhance our research and teaching performance, we are seeking to recruit outstanding academics, at all levels, with an excellent track record and a good fit with our strategic priorities, in the following Faculty Institutes and Schools:

Institutes

• Brain/Behaviour/Mental Health
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular Sciences
• Population Health
• Human Development (including genetics, women's and children's health)
• Inflammation and Repair

Schools

• Psychological Sciences
• Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Dentistry
• Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

We aim to recruit 4-5 outstanding academics at a range of stages in their careers for each School and Institute listed above.