Thank you for your interest in this role and in Queen Mary University of London. Working at Queen Mary means being part of a unique, world-class global University with a long, proud and distinctive history.
Our founding institutions, the London Hospital Medical College, St Bartholomew’s Medical College, Westfield College and Queen Mary College, were founded to provide hope and opportunity for the less privileged and otherwise under-represented.
Today, we remain true to the vision of our founders by continuing to improve lives locally, nationally and internationally through the seamless combination of our world-leading strengths in education and research.
The Queen Mary community – our staff, students and alumni – is the heart and soul of our University. We are proud to provide an inclusive and nurturing environment so that staff and students from all backgrounds can develop, flourish and achieve their full potential.
I look forward to welcoming you to our unique University and working with you to realise our ambitions.
Our strategy 2030
In 2019, Queen Mary University of London launched a bold new Strategy with the vision to open the doors of opportunity. By 2030, we will be the most inclusive university of its kind, anywhere. We are doing this by building on our existing cultural diversity to create a truly inclusive environment, where students and staff flourish, reach their full potential and are proud to be part of the University. Continuing our long tradition of commitment to public good, we will generate new knowledge, challenge existing knowledge, and engage locally, nationally and internationally to create a better world.
We have five core values that will help us to reach this goal:
We are inclusive, supporting talented students and staff regardless of their background, and engaging with our local and global communities.
We are proud of the difference we can all make when we work collectively.
We are ambitious, fostering innovation and creativity, disrupting conventional thought, and responding with imagination to new opportunities.
We are collegial, promoting a strong community through openness, listening, understanding, co-operation and co-creation.
We are ethical, acting with the highest standards, and with integrity, in all that we do.
Queen Mary University of London is a Russell Group University with a difference. Our vision is to be recognised across the world as the most inclusive research-intensive University. We will strive to achieve that goal.
To all the communities at Queen Mary, inclusivity is key to who we are and to achieving all our ambitions.
We are a multi-faculty institution teaching undergraduates and postgraduates across all the major disciplines. We offer more than 280 undergraduate courses. We have world- leading research across disciplines and were ranked 5th in the UK in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) for the quality of our research outputs, and continually challenge ourselves to ensure we have an environment where everyone feels included and can flourish.
We are very proud of our teaching and learning and were awarded a ‘silver’ in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) (2016-17). We are also deeply embedded in the local community and were the first UK University to be awarded an Engage Watermark Gold award for public engagement by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement.
Unlike many other Russell Group universities, we attract a very diverse student population. Of our 25,000+ students, over 30 per cent are from non-EU overseas countries, and 9 per cent are from the EU. Our international students are drawn from over 160 countries. 90 per cent of our home students are from state schools, 59 per cent are Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME), 42 per cent are the first in their families to go into higher education and over 30 per cent are from households where the household income, as assessed by Student Finance England, is less than £15,000.
We attract a lot of local students, owing to our strong relationships with schools in the surrounding boroughs, coupled with a strong reputation for inclusivity. 37 per cent of our students commute to our campuses daily. Our staff body is also diverse and is drawn from over 162 countries.
Inclusivity is one of our fundamental core values at Queen Mary: it is intrinsic to who we are. Our diversity of cultures and backgrounds is key to the vibrancy of our community and to the knowledge and ideas we are able to generate and pass on; without that diversity, we would not be who we are. We are extremely proud that we attract such a diverse staff and student body, and are fully committed to providing an environment where everyone is supported to flourish and fulfil their potential, irrespective of their background.
To be truly inclusive requires sustained, proactive, hard work, and we know there are areas where we have work to do. Our core objectives are focused on reducing the BAME attainment gap and increasing the proportion of female and BAME staff at the higher grades, both for academics and for Professional Services. We are looking to see how we can ‘hard-wire’ inclusivity throughout all our policies and practices: we do not see this work as belonging to one team or unit, but rather as being embedded in all that we do.
Being inclusive makes us better at everything we do, it improves our daily lives and the delivery and impact of our work.
Queen Mary is committed to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and champions a number of EDI initiatives across the University.
Queen Mary holds a Silver Institutional Athena SWAN award for advancing gender equality, and is also a Stonewall Diversity Champion and commits to advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion by submitting to the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index. We also offer a number of development programmes including Springboard, Aurora and B-MEntor. We are committed to championing EDI relating to all protected characteristics and other underrepresented and marginalised groups under the Equality Act 2010.
We offer ‘Introducing Inclusion’ training for staff to give them an understanding of EDI related issues and provide them with the tools needed to champion inclusivity and embed best inclusive practice in all the work they do. EDI is built into everything we do at Queen Mary, and is championed through a well-established governance structure.
If you are interested in learning more about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Queen Mary and how to get involved then please contact hr-equality@qmul.ac.uk.
Staff benefits
Flexible working
Queen Mary is proud of the diversity of its staff and students. We encourage inclusive practices in everything that we do, to ensure that everyone who works here feels valued and enabled to have a positive working experience. We are therefore open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly, balanced against business need. Our Flexible Working Policy includes examples of some of the flexible working arrangements that could be considered. If you feel that this is something that may be of benefit to you, please do ask.
Family Friendly Policies
Queen Mary recognises the commitments that staff have to their family and the importance of work-life balance. To support this Queen Mary offers a range of family friendly policies with enhanced rates of pay available for family-related leave, following a qualifying period of service.
Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to the University. An executive search process is being carried out by Anderson Quigley in addition to the public advertisement.
The closing date for applications is noon on Wednesday 16th August 2023.
Applications should consist of:
To apply, please click the Apply Now button at the top of this page.
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence, please contact Hayley Mintern at hayley.mintern@andersonquigley.com or +44 (0)7596 954 387.