We seek a Chair in Mental Health to help develop and lead a new University Institute for Youth Mental Health in conjunction with the College of Social Sciences. The successful individual will be an outstanding, internationally recognised academic with the vision and capacity to help shape and build the future of translational neuroscience in youth mental health and whose research will impact policy and decision making. The Chair will lead a collaborative research platform across three major transdiagnostic domains: cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging and neurophysiology, and clinical phenotypic capture and psychopathology. This is a major opportunity for someone seeking to join one of the largest and most successful Schools in the UK, currently ranked in the top 5 in the country (REF 2014).

The School will be moving to new accommodation in the form of a fully refurbished, purpose-designed space and a new-build Centre for Human Brain Health that will house our new MRI and MEG facilities, sleep lab, and the newly appointed Chair in Translational Neuroscience.

The University of Birmingham is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from currently under-represented groups. The School of Psychology has a Bronze Athena SWAN award. It strives to maintain a flexible and supportive environment that enables its staff to flourish.

Confidential enquiries can be made to Professor Kim Shapiro, Head of School, hos.psychology@contacts.bham.ac.uk, +44 121 414 4930.