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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Northumbria University, Faculty of Arts Design and Social Sciences
Closing: November 23, 2020
The successful candidate will join the interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences and will work in a thriving and busy team which includes world-leading researchers in policing, criminal justice, social harm, environmental crime and victimology.
You will be responsible for contributing to an exceptional student experience through the delivery of teaching, research, business and enterprise engagement activity. You will be able to work with traditional students as well as Professional students (such as those on the PCDA). We are looking for a colleague who shares our values and passion for teaching and is committed to providing the highest quality student experience. You must also have outstanding research outputs with clear research plans for the future, including around grant capture. You will utilise this expertise to deliver outstanding research informed teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with expertise in evidence based policing and styles of policing, national intelligence models and quantitative research methods.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Lisa Hardisty, Head of Department, lisa.hardisty@northumbria.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Criminology
Northumbria University, Faculty of Arts Design and Social Sciences
Closing: November 23, 2020
You will be responsible for contributing to an exceptional student experience through the delivery of teaching, research, business and enterprise engagement activity. You will be able to work with traditional students as well as Professional students (such as those on the PCDA). We are looking for a colleague who shares our values and passion for teaching and is committed to providing the highest quality student experience. You must also have outstanding research outputs with clear research plans for the future, including around grant capture. You will utilise this expertise to deliver outstanding research informed teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
We would particularly welcome applications from candidates with expertise in evidence based policing and styles of policing, national intelligence models and quantitative research methods.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Lisa Hardisty, Head of Department, lisa.hardisty@northumbria.ac.uk
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Criminology
School of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Lincoln
Closing: November 25, 2020
The successful candidate will be able to teach core elements of the criminology curriculum, as well as having a research or practice specialism within any field of criminology. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in green criminology, criminal justice, and/or in quantitative methods, but not in preference to stronger candidates with other specialisms. Alongside teaching, staff are expected to conduct high quality research and/or engage externally, for example in professional practice and scholarly activity.
The successful candidate will seek to develop their own and the School’s profile, and to enrich the academic environment and profile of the School of Social and Political Sciences, and of the College of Social Science of which it forms a part.
Researcher, “Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life: A contemporary study of an English town”
Centre for Criminology at Oxford
Closing: Midday November 26, 2020
The post is part time (0.5 FTE or 18.75 hours per week)
Professor Ian Loader (Oxford University), Dr Evi Girling (Keele University – Principal Investigator), Professor Richard Sparks (Edinburgh University) and Professor Ben Bradford (University College London) have been awarded a grant from the ESRC for an ambitious three year programme of research examining Place, Crime and Insecurity in Everyday Life: A contemporary study of an English town. The project commenced in November 2019 and will run to 1st February 2023. This project will provide a new exploration of the place and meanings of security in the everyday lives of people living in Britain today through an intensive local study of one English town in Cheshire, details about the project can be found on the website, https://securityinplace.org/
Lecturer in Criminology (fixed term for 12 months)
Closing: November 27, 2020
The criminology subject group in the Department of Law and Criminology is a diverse mix of colleagues with a broad range of academic and professional practice experience. The primary focus is on the applied nature of criminology underpinned by strong theoretical knowledge, the development and application of research skills and the enhancement of graduate attributes.
As a lecturer you will be expected to make broad contributions to the academic work of the Department of Law and Criminology (DLC). Teaching duties will include undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, assessment and other related duties. You will also be expected to contribute to research and other forms of scholarly activity as part of a multi-disciplinary team; and, to contribute to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice.
You must have a good honours degree in a relevant subject and experience of teaching across the criminology subject area. You must also have experience of technology to enhance teaching or online learning knowledge and well-developed current knowledge and understanding of critical, practical and theoretical issues relevant to the teaching of Criminology, which would include some of the following:
• criminal justice
• criminological theory
• desistence and/or recovery
• human rights and social justice
• quantitative and qualitative research methods
Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Policing
Staffordshire University, School of Law, Policing and Forensics
Closing: December 6, 2020
We are currently recruiting to a number of Lectureship/Senior Lectureship posts in Policing, based within the University’s Institute of Policing. During 2019 we announced a major new partnership to deliver police constable education and training for West Midlands, Staffordshire, West Mercia and Warwickshire police forces.
Post-holders will join our team to deliver undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in our Policing courses, specifically in relation to our Policing Apprenticeship and Degree Holder programmes, as well as providing support to other Policing programmes as required.
We are seeking individuals with knowledge and/or research experience across broad specialisms including core Policing concepts and skills and/or Criminology. We are particularly keen in individuals with expertise in Digitally Enabled Crimes, Road Policing, Intelligence and Security, and Policing Research, although we welcome applications from people with other specialisms too. Whether you have developed your expertise through an academic route or with one of the UK’s Police Forces we want to hear from you.
You will have a commitment to developing and delivering high-quality teaching, have excellent communication skills and an ability to work effectively as part of a high performing team of academic staff.
Research Assistant – Police Accountability – towards international standards (POLACS)
University of Dundee
Closing: December 9, 2020
We wish to appoint an experienced and highly motivated Research Assistant for the UK branch of a three-year, international, inter-disciplinary research project involving partners from Germany, France, Canada and Japan. The UK part is funded by the ESRC, and led by Dr. Anja Johansen (Humanities, University of Dundee) in collaboration with Prof. Nick Fyfe (Social Sciences, University of Dundee, and Dr. Genevieve Lennon (Law, University of Strathclyde).
The project investigates and compares complaints procedures against police personnel in the UK, Germany, France, Canada and Japan, to identify best practice and procedural problems, as well as to set minimum standards for viable complaints structures, and to strengthen the theoretical basis for research on and comparison between police complaints procedures beyond the five countries involved. The international research team involves scholars working on police-public relations from a broad range of disciplines (law, political science, sociology, human geography and history).
The RA will be involved in the organisation and record management relating to a series of interview meetings with police stakeholders (National Police Chiefs’ Council; Police Unions; Police Colleges), representatives from independent police complaints bodies (the IOPC for England/Wales; the PIRC for Scotland; and the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland), and representatives for victim support groups and civil liberties organisations involved in complaints cases against the police. The RA will also be involved in the organisation of a series of workshops and conferences aimed at bringing together academic researchers, police practitioners, and political decision-makers to discuss the findings and interim conclusions of the project. In addition, the RA will be expected to contribute to the production of output and the dissemination activities of the project, with full recognition of all the RA’s academic contributions.
Closing: January 4, 2021
The University of Brighton is one of the partners in the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The South Coast DTP is a beacon of excellence, innovation and imagination in postgraduate training for the next generation of social scientists.
The South Coast DTP will be awarding studentships to social scientists carrying out PhD studies, or Masters + PhD studies at its three partner institutions, start date October 2021. The studentships are for both institutional projects and ‘open call’ projects for which applicants devise their own project proposal.
Reducing domestic abuse harms: a multi-agency approach to working with perpetrators
University of Essex
Closing: January 18, 2021
This 3-year fully funded studentship will give a PhD researcher the opportunity to work with Islington and a team of expert academics at the University of Essex’s centre for criminology, to produce new findings and recommendations on how to reduce the harm caused by perpetrators. In 2020 Essex’s Centre for Criminology was ranked 6th in the UK (Guardian University League Tables). Project supervisors have strong relationships government and with key domestic abuse organisations. The successful candidate will be supported to become an important independent scholar in the field and develop a strong academic career.