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Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Criminology
School of Law, Policing and Forensics
Closing: February 22, 2020
Come and join our brilliant and friendly team! An exciting opportunity has arisen at Staffordshire University for a highly motivated lecturer or senior lecturer (depending on experience) in Criminology to join us in delivering our thriving undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and to contribute to our excellent research profile. The successful applicant will join a highly regarded, research active and student-centred team of colleagues. We are looking to appoint someone who is enthusiastic and highly motivated with the ability to teach a broad range of topics within Criminology. Your role will include teaching, assessment, curriculum development, and recruitment and admissions.
Your teaching approach will be flexible, student-centred and research informed. The role will also require you to develop and maintain productive relationships with placement providers, employers and other stakeholders, so you will need a high level of inter-personal skills, and personal effectiveness to promote a high-quality experience for all involved. You will have a strong commitment to continuing professional development and to inter-professional and international perspectives. We expect you will have experience of, and a commitment to, delivering high quality teaching in a multi-disciplinary environment and have excellent communication skills. We have a collegiate environment where it is usual to work with colleagues from academic disciplines including Law and Forensic Science, and with others across the wider university community.
This is an exciting time to join Staffordshire University. We have risen exponentially in university league tables, recently making 37 in the Guardian League Table, and we are delighted to have achieved TEF Gold. The University is recognised for the high quality of the provision of a broad portfolio of on-campus, off-campus, blended and distance learning undergraduate and postgraduate courses. We also have strong partnerships with employers and placement providers from a range of sectors. Research activity is an integral part of the University’s business and we are committed to enabling staff to engage in a wide range of research and scholarship.
Should you wish to have an informal discussion about the vacancy please contact Dr Jo Turner, Head of Department, email: jo.turner@staffs.ac.uk
For more details see website
Assistant Professor in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Closing: February 24, 2020
Durham Law School are seeking to appoint an outstanding legal scholar in the area of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice with research interests in this broad field.
The Law School is in its largest expansion of permanent, full-time appointments in our distinguished 50-year history as we build additional capacity in core areas and further develop other strengths building critical mass in the area of public law. Our award winning 53 academic staff are producing ground-breaking research with significant impact and are highly active in public engagement both nationally and internationally. We are a top 50 QS World Ranked law school and our research ranked 3rd best in grade point average in the UK’s last national Research Excellence Framework exercise in 2014. Durham Law School is consistently ranked among the top ten or higher UK law schools across various league tables, including 3rd in The Daily Telegraph, 8th in The Time and The Guardian. Our graduates include some of law’s leading figures, such as current members of the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the Government, Members of Parliament and beyond.
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DMU Institute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice
Funded PhD scholarships currently available at De Montfort University
Closing: March 9, 2020
We welcome expressions of interest from potential PhD candidates interested in undertaking research in the field of criminology. Key areas of focus include:
- Crimes against humanity
- Digital Criminology
- Gender, Crime and Justice
- Prison Studies
- Probation Studies
If you have other areas of interest that you wish to discuss, please feel free to contact us.
22 fully-funded PhD scholarships are currently available across disciplines at De Montfort University.
If you are interested in finding out more about applying for a PhD with the DMU Institute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice, please contact Dr Christina Quinlan, Director of the Institute, (christina.quinlan@dmu.ac.uk) for an informal discussion.
Entry requirements include a UK Honours Degree with at least an upper second class honours or equivalent, and English language competence. For more detail, please see the De Montfort University Doctoral College webpages (https://tinyurl.com/rmp5w6p)
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Lecturer in Criminology (Teaching)
Closing date: March 10, 2020
We are looking to recruit a Lecturer in Criminology in the Division of Community & Criminal Justice, De Montfort University. The role will be a teaching focused post on our undergraduate criminology programmes.
The ideal candidate will hold a postgraduate qualification in Criminology or a relevant discipline. We would particularly welcome applications from those with specialisms in Victimology, Mental Health, or Peacebuilding Criminology although other specialisms will be considered.
For informal inquiries, please contact: Kim Sadique, Head of Division (ksadique@dmu.ac.uk)
For more details, please see the website
Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Criminology
Closing: March 10, 2020
The School of Law is looking to make two appointments, at either Lecturer and or Senior Lecturer level. Both posts are open, but we are particularly keen to attract applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas: criminology and gender; criminology and race; cultural criminology; global criminology; green criminology; technology and criminology; and/or quantitative methods. The successful applicants will carry out excellent research, deliver research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and supervise master’s dissertations, and PhD theses in one or more of these areas. For more information about the School, please visit www.shef.ac.uk/law
The Centre for Criminological Research (CCR) is one of the four original criminological centres of excellence in the UK and is now over thirty years old. CCR reaches across the University as a multi-disciplinary Centre, conducting high quality research on criminology and criminal justice, which has been funded by the EU, the ESRC, trusts and the government. CCR is one of the University’s established research centres, with over 60 members from many different disciplines.
This is an opportunity to join an ambitious school of lawyers and criminologists that aims to produce world-class research and students who can flourish in a rapidly changing world. You will be a dedicated scholar and teacher who is prepared to make a lasting contribution to the School. You will have an excellent track-record of and potential for academic leadership, both within the School and University, and within your discipline.
See website for further details: www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs
Informal enquiries
For informal enquiries about these jobs and the recruiting department, contact Professor Graham Gee, Head of School, on g.gee@sheffield.ac.uk. For administration queries and details on the application process, contact the lead recruiter: Jayne Parkin on j.e.parkin@sheffield.ac.uk or on 0114 222 6846.
ESRC-funded PhD studentship: The role of police sergeants in shaping frontline discretion
Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
Closing: March 13, 2020
This ESRC-funded PhD studentship is a collaboration between the University of Liverpool and the College of Policing. It will provide an observation-based analysis of the neglected issue of how sergeants shape the work of officers they supervise, generating original insights into frontline policing and informing the development of role-specific training. By collaborating closely with external partners, in particular the College of Policing, the successful PhD student will have the opportunity to engage in knowledge-exchange with end-users of the research.
Eligibility Criteria: As this is a three year (+3) studentship applicants must hold (or expect to be awarded in 2020) a Masters degree in a relevant subject (e.g. Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy, Social Research Methods), which includes a significant component of relevant training in social science research.
If you wish to discuss the studentship further, please contact Dr Liz Turner at lizt@liverpool.ac.uk
ESRC WRDTP Collaborative Project: ‘Protecting the vulnerable through neighbourhood policing’
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds
Closing: March 13, 2020
Awards are available on +3 (PhD) basis or on a 1+3 basis (MA Social Research (Interdisciplinary) plus PhD.
This ESRC PhD studentship is a collaboration of the University of Leeds and South Yorkshire Police. Drawing primarily on the disciplines of criminology and sociology, it will explore the recent reconfiguration of ‘neighbourhood policing’ through a discourse of ‘vulnerability’. It will explore the extent to and the ways in which the emergence of ‘vulnerability’ as a core priority within policing potentially reconfigures the very purpose of public policing – how ‘demand’ for policing is understood, responded to, and managed – at the local, neighbourhood level. It will question whether the institutionalisation of ‘vulnerability’ refocuses policing priorities and protection onto erstwhile stigmatised populations and marginalised groups, traditionally seen as problematic due to their interactions with authorities, lifestyles or circumstances, and the extent to which it potentially shifts the delivery of policing towards an emphasis on proactive prevention and harm minimisation from a public health perspective. The successful candidate will work closely with South Yorkshire Police, collecting diverse sources of data with which to interrogate the research questions including observations, interviews, focus groups and administrative data.
Supervisors: Professors Stuart Lister and Adam Crawford
Funding on offer: Full awards provide UK/EU academic fees and a maintenance grant at standard Research Council rates (£15,009 in Session 2019/20) for full-time study, together with other allowances if appropriate. EU applicants will be eligible for an award paying tuition fees only, except in exceptional circumstances, or where residency has been established for more than 3 years prior to the start of the course.
Contact details: For further information about how to apply please contact the Graduate School Office
e: applypgr.socialsciences@leeds.ac.uk, t: +44 (0)113 34338056
University of Leeds
Two Research Fellow/Assistant Posts in European Urban Security
Closing: March 16, 2020
The post-holders will work with Professor Adam Crawford, at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law at the University of Leeds, to conduct and support research activities on the EU funded project IcARUS: Innovative Approaches to Urban Security. This is a large-scale Horizon 2020 programme of research led by the European Forum on Urban Security, involving 18 partners across Europe. It will focus on implementing change in six major European cities. Working with a team at Leeds and in collaboration with partners, you will play an important role, assuming significant fieldwork and data collection responsibilities. You will assist in the preparation of a review of the best evidence from urban security research and practice over the last 30 years to inform the implementation of an integrated, evidence-based and multi-stakeholder approach to prominent urban security problems in the partner cities.
Further details and person specifications in relation to each post are available via the University Jobs portal.
- Research Fellow/Officer in European Urban Security (24 months) http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ESLLW1139
- Research Assistant in European Urban Security (12 months) http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/ESLLW1138
Project start date: 1 June 2020
Department of Sociology
Two Assistant Criminology Professor posts
Closing: March 18, 2020
To support the continued growth of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, we are looking to appoint two Assistant Professorships in Criminology. The successful candidates will be joining one of the UK’s leading Sociology Departments.
The successful candidate will excel at research-led teaching and contribute to the successful development and delivery of the department’s undergraduate and postgraduate criminology programmes.
They will have the ability to teach in core areas of Criminology and Criminal Justice with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: critical policing, border criminology, media and crime, race, ethnicity and crime, cybercrime, organised crime, green criminology, critical criminology, prison/police abolition, corporate crime, cultural criminology, feminist criminology, youth crime, criminological theories and methodologies or queer criminology.
For an informal and confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Professor Virinder S Kalra (V.Kalra@warwick.ac.uk).
For more see the website
PhD Studentship in Policing
School of Law, Policing and Forensics
Closing: 22 March 2020
An exciting opportunity to study for a fully funded doctorate whilst gaining valuable teaching experience.
PhD Studentships at Staffordshire University are designed with a very strong focus on the development of those holding a studentship as a researcher, a teacher in Higher education, and as an academic.
About you
You will have a Masters’ degree in a relevant subject. You should also have a passion for pursing original research along with a desire to develop your teaching ability by supporting an experienced and dynamic undergraduate course team.
Highly motivated, resilient and with the determination to succeed, you will be committed to undertaking a PhD and possess strong written and oral communication skills along with excellent organisational skills.
About the role
Doctoral researchers holding a studentship hold a unique position in the University, being both registered students and carrying out teaching/teaching support duties.
You will be expected to:
- Complete a programme of research training
- Undertake continuing researcher development
- Complete a programme of training in teaching in Higher education
- Complete a PhD programme of research under the guidance of an appointed supervisory team (please see an outline of the project below)
- Undertake teaching and teaching support duties as directed by the Head of Department
- Enhance the research culture of the department by participating in development activities including publication and presenting at conferences
Rewards/Benefits
From the moment you join us, you will have the opportunity to enhance your skills. In addition to having the opportunity to enrol on our Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education (PgCHPE) to support your professional development, we offer a range of specialist development sessions.
The studentship includes:
- A stipend of £15,009 per annum for four years
- A full fee waiver of research degree tuition fees worth £4,327 per annum (UK/EU/Channel Islands) and £12,500 (international non-EU) for three years
- A full fee waiver of the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education (PgCHPE) tuition fee worth £3,400 per annum for 18 months
The project
Assessing the police demand caused by Serious and Organised Acquisitive Crime
Serious and organised crime is estimated to cost the United Kingdom at least £37 billion each year (UK Parliament, 2019) and the estimated scale of organised acquisitive crime is £680 million (Home Office, 2019). However, it can be argued that the true scale of serious and organised acquisitive crime is unknown. Without a standardised definition of serious and organised acquisitive crime nor a consistent reporting mechanism, there have been difficulties in assessing the demand associated with this crime on Police services.
This project intends to enhance the national understanding of serious and organised acquisitive crime and increase the police service’s capability for assessing the demand. The research will involve working closely with police forces and utilising police data to provide insight to some of the definitional problems surrounding the topic, assess the current demand caused by this type of crime to police forces and make suggestions for the assessment of future demand for serious and organised acquisitive crime.
First supervisor: Dr Lauren Metcalfe
For more details see website
Associate/Assistant Professor in Criminology
(Ref. No.: FSS/DSOC/AAP/10/2019)
Closing: Open until filled.
The University of Macau (UM) is the only public comprehensive university in Macao. Leveraging this unique advantage, UM aims to establish itself as a world-class university with regional characteristics. English is its working language. In recent years, UM has seen a significant development in and a rising international recognition for its teaching, research, and community service. It has implemented a unique ‘4-in-1’ education model that integrates discipline-specific education, general education, research and internship education, and community and peer education. Combining this model with the largest residential college system in Asia, UM provides all-round education to students. In addition, it recruits outstanding scholars from around the world to create a multilingual and multicultural learning environment for students. With the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the new initiatives of the university to boost cutting-edge research and interdisciplinary programmes, UM embraces unprecedented opportunities for development, and offers bright career prospect to professionals in different areas.
The Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for the position of Associate/Assistant Professor in Criminology. The department offers Bachelor, Master, and PhD programmes in Sociology and Criminology, has a productive and diverse faculty drawn from many parts of the world, including the United States, Netherlands, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau. We have a strong research portfolio focusing on comparative criminology, policing, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, intimate partner violence, migration, demography, political sociology, child and adolescent development, and quantitative research methods. More information about the department is available at the UM website: https://fss.um.edu.mo/department-of-sociology/.
Qualifications
Applicants must have completed the PhD degree by the start date of appointment, and must have a scholarly record of research, or demonstrate high research potential. Applicants should also have teaching experience, or be able to demonstrate teaching effectiveness. Area of specialization is criminology in general, but preference may be given to applicants with sociology background whose research and teaching expertise are related to criminological theory, sociological theory, and mixed research methods.
The selected candidate is expected to assume duty in August 2020.
Remuneration
A taxable annual remuneration starting from MOP800,800 (approximately USD98,860) for Assistant Professor and from MOP985,600 (approximately USD121,680) for Associate Professor will be commensurate with the successful applicants’ academic qualification and relevant professional experience. The current local maximum income tax rate is 12% but is effectively around 5% – 7% after various discretionary exemptions. Apart from competitive remuneration, UM offers a wide range of benefits, such as medical insurance, provident fund, on campus accommodation/housing allowance and other subsidies. Further details on our package are available at: https://www.um.edu.mo/admo/vacancy_faq/.
Application Procedure
Applicants should visit https://career.admo.um.edu.mo/ for more details, and apply ONLINE. Review of applications will commence on December 1, 2019 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants may consider their applications not successful if they are not invited for an interview within 3 months of application.
Human Resources Section, Office of Administration
University of Macau, Av. da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China
Website: https://career.admo.um.edu.mo/; Email: vacancy@um.edu.mo
Tel: +853 8822 8578; Fax: +853 8822 2412
The effective position and salary index are subject to the Personnel Statute of the University of Macau in force. The University of Macau reserves the right not to appoint a candidate. Applicants with less qualification and experience can be offered lower positions under special circumstances.
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