UNIVERSITY OF BATH
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Teaching Fellow in Construction Management - Further Particulars
The University
The University, which received its Charter in 1966, is situated on a campus of 200 acres,
surrounded by open countryside one and a half miles from the centre of Bath.
Communications are rapid and easy, with London being less than one and a half hours away
by train. The University is structured around 15 Departments which are organised into three
Faculties, with the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering in the Faculty of
Engineering and Design. The University has around 13,000 students and competition for
places is keen resulting in an intake of exceptionally high quality. The University’s research
is similarly highly regarded internationally.
Location and Facilities
The University is based on a fine downland site of about 200 acres at Claverton Down, less
than two miles south-east of the city centre. The University has been developed on this site
over the last forty years, so that all the buildings are relatively new and have been designed
or refurbished to modern standards. Physical working conditions are generally pleasant, with
many buildings commanding attractive views. The facilities on campus include a grocery
shop, newsagent, post office and bookshop, and sub-branches of three banks. There is also
a medical centre and dental practice, while those with sporting and other social interests will
find a variety of clubs and societies open to them. The University has extensively revamped
its Creative Arts provision and the English Institute of Sport in the south west is now based at
the University in extensive new facilities.
In addition to those buildings used for teaching and for administration, there are residential
buildings on campus in which approximately 2150 students reside. Around five hundred
residential places are located in the city. Full-time members of staff may apply to become
resident Tutors within the on- or off-campus residences – further details are available from
the Department of Human Resources.
Westwood Nursery, which is on site at Claverton Down, offers competitively priced nursery
care for babies and children of staff and students from the age of 6 months until they start
school. The nursery is open throughout the year and children may attend on a full or part
time basis. Places are of course subject to availability and there are long waiting lists for
some age groups – you are encouraged to contact the Nursery for up to date information.
For children of primary school age the University play-scheme aims to organise provision
during some half terms and other holidays.
Appointments in the University are offered subject to the University receiving a satisfactory
report on your health from the University Medical Officer. This is normally undertaken on the
basis of a review of a confidential medical questionnaire. Smoking of any kind is prohibited
in all University buildings, with the exception of some bar and residential areas.
The City of Bath is recognised as being architecturally one of the finest in Europe and is a
very pleasant place in which to live. The communications network is good. Trains run at
least every hour to London and the fastest journey time is about 1 hour 15 minutes. The M4
motorway runs 10 miles north of Bath and provides a convenient road network to London,
the Midlands, Wales and South West England.
Further information Please visit our website at www.bath.ac.uk.
The Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
The Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering has a unique character with its
particular combination of architecture and civil engineering. The undergraduate courses are
organised with periods of joint teaching spread throughout the first degree courses. The first
semester of the first year is common to both groups of students, and in subsequent years
there are periods of group design project work. This interdisciplinary approach has been
commended by accreditation bodies across the professions, as well as being recognised by
the award of many external prizes to graduates in both disciplines. The department has
been rated as excellent for its teaching of both Architecture and Civil Engineering - which
received 22 out of 24 in the TQA. This, together with a full employment record for graduates
and a research assessment rating of 5, places us near the top of the U.K. in the Times Good
University Guide for Architecture and for Civil Engineering on an ongoing basis.
The Department occupies purpose built accommodation on the campus, completed in 1989.
This houses a range of laboratories and workshops on the ground floor with design studios
on the top floor, the two intermediate floors being devoted to studio space, lecture theatres,
research rooms and staff offices. There are currently 300 undergraduate students of civil
engineering and approximately the same number of first degree architects. The intake
standard is high, with aggregate A level grades in excess of AAB for both disciplines. The
MEng in Civil and Architectural Engineering is undertaken either as a five year sandwich
course with periods of training in years 2 and 4, or as a four year full-time course.
Additionally there is an MEng in Civil Engineering which contains significant industrial project
work, and a BEng in Civil Engineering which is three years full time or four years with
industrial placement. The flagship course remains, however, the five year sandwich MEng in
Civil and Architectural Engineering.
The laboratories in the Department cater for laboratory-based teaching of all undergraduates,
and for all laboratory-based research conducted by staff. These laboratories are the
Structures Laboratory, the Geotechnics Laboratory, the Materials Laboratory, the Timber
Engineering Laboratory, the Hydraulics Laboratory, the Acoustics Laboratory and the
Lighting Laboratory. All laboratories are headed by the Chief Technician, with a further five
technicians working across the various laboratories. Further, the Department has a dedicated
Computer Technician. In addition to the undergraduate courses, the Department also offers
the following postgraduate programmes:
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MSc in International Construction Management
MSc in Architectural Engineering: Façades
MSc in Architectural Engineering: Environmental Design
MSc in the Conservation of Historic Buildings
MSc in the Conservation of Historical Gardens
MPhil in Innovative Structural Engineering
MPhil in Computational Architectonics
MPhil in Architectural History & Theory
MPhil and PhD by research
There are currently about 140 MSc and 50 research postgraduates. In the last RAE, 70% of
the Department’s research activity was rated at 3* or 4*, placing it 6th in the UK in
Architecture and the Built Environment Unit of Assessment.
The Post
The Department is seeking to appoint a 0.35 FTE Teaching Fellow in Construction
Management. The successful candidate will have particular strengths in teaching
construction management at undergraduate level to civil engineering and architecture
students, will preferably hold a PhD, and will preferably be professionally qualified with
established links with industry.
The post-holder will deliver teaching on four undergraduate taught units, will supervise
about five final-year MEng dissertation students, and will contribute to the day-to-day life
of the Department in an appropriate way.
Due to the uniquely joint nature of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
design ability of our students and graduates is at the forefront of teaching, so that design
experience and/or experience in the design process would be advantageous.
The appointment level will depend on qualifications, teaching record and experience.
The first year of a Teaching Fellow Grade 8 appointment is probationary unless the
appointee has already completed probation of a comparable nature in another university.