Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date: 07 October 2024

We are seeking a clinical academic to join our thriving translational rheumatology unit. You will be either in the early stages of your independent career and on a steep trajectory of success, or an established clinical academic with a national and developing international reputation in your chosen field.  Your research will be based in the Faculty of Medical Sciences.  Clinical activities will be based at the Freeman Hospital’s Musculoskeletal Unit, one of the busiest clinical rheumatology units in the UK. We have a range of busy specialist clinics that cover the breadth of rheumatology, supported by an infrastructure to facilitate clinical and translational research.

Rheumatology research in Newcastle has an outstanding international reputation, with three successive EULAR Centre of Excellence awards (2010-2025). Musculoskeletal disease is also a key theme in our NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, providing invaluable research infrastructure.  Examples of our recent research include the development of a cellular therapy (autologous tolerogenic dendritic cells) to induce tolerance in people with inflammatory arthritis, trials of a potential anti-fibroblast therapy to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and an experimental medicine model to better understand the causes of disease flare in rheumatoid arthritis. We have also led major UK collaborations studying the pathogenesis of inflammatory arthritis.

Your field of interest can be within any subspecialty of rheumatology but we are particularly interested in individuals with a connective tissue disease interest, who can leverage research opportunities from our extensive range of specialty clinics. We are a translational research group, with an emphasis on immunological mechanisms of disease, but increasingly there are opportunities for researchers with a primary interest in other areas such as data research.  Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals also provides excellent infrastructure for delivering clinical research and clinical trials.

For more information our Candidate Information Pack can be here

Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 27391