Cardiff School of Management’s Department of Business, Management and Law is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Law with a strong criminology profile and a clear socio‑legal and doctrinal focus. This strategically important appointment will strengthen the Department’s growing provision at the intersection of law, criminology, justice and public policy.
The successful candidate will be a criminology‑informed legal scholar, able to contribute to undergraduate teaching across law and criminology programmes, with particular strength in areas that explore crime, justice and regulation from a legal perspective. They will be expected to support curriculum development, contribute to research and scholarship, and enhance the Department’s applied and socially engaged teaching ethos.
The role holder will contribute to teaching across a range of undergraduate modules, with teaching and research interests aligned to one or more of the following areas:
- Punishment and Justice
- Access to Justice
- Criminal Justice and Legal Responses to Crime
- Family Law and Social Justice
- Legal and Professional Skills
- Terrorism, Radicalisation and Violence
- International and Comparative Law and Systems
- Supervision of final year dissertations or projects.
This post offers an exciting opportunity for a criminology specialist with a strong legal foundation to shape an innovative, practice‑focused curriculum and to contribute meaningfully to debates around law, crime and justice in society.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Make a significant contribution to the delivery of our taught portfolio, including a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Law and other core curriculum areas. Deliver programme management as required, enhance employability, and engage with internal and external organisations at regional, national and international levels. Contribute to the research profile of the department and meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence Framework. Opportunities exist for postgraduate research supervision.
What we are looking for
- A Masters (LLM/MA/MRes) or equivalent qualification in Law, Criminology, Criminal Justice or a related discipline.
- An in‑depth knowledge of subject and professional area of Law, Criminology or Criminal Justice.
- Successful experience of HE Law teaching/practice and demonstrated competence to teach principles of legal professional conduct on related programmes.
- In‑depth understanding of pedagogy.
- In‑depth understanding of research, enterprise and scholarly activity.
- Ability to design, develop and deliver a range of programmes at various levels.
- Ability to review programme design on a regular basis to ensure compliance with quality standards and academic regulations, and to make alterations where appropriate.
- Ability to contribute to the achievement of the School Development Plan and the institution’s strategic planning processes.
- Ability to develop research objectives, prepare proposals, carry out independent research, referee and contribute to peer assessment.
- Ability to identify opportunities for strategic development/improvement (e.g., research projects, new courses, consultancy).
- Ability to identify areas requiring improved performance (e.g., student numbers, student satisfaction) through analysis of appropriate management information.
- Experience of providing academic leadership and first‑line support/mentoring for other colleagues.
- Experience of engaging in pedagogic and practitioner research.
- Ability to achieve Fellow Status as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Professional Recognition scheme, within agreed timescales (within three years of commencement of employment).
Cardiff Metropolitan University is proud to be a Disability Confident employer and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant.
All applicants with disabilities, or those who are part of the Armed Forces community who during the short‑listing process meet the essential criteria for the role, will be progressed to the next stage.
The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family‑friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.
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