Appointment of a Lecturer in Criminology

Appointment of a Lecturer in Criminology

The school The School of Applied Social Science is inter-disciplinary with over 75 staff and researchers, and approximately 1000 students based on the Falmer campus in Brighton. Teaching is also offered at the Hastings Campus. The School has grown rapidly in the last 10 years by developing innovative joint honours courses based on research-led curricula and has established itself as an increasingly internationally recognised centre for applied research in the social sciences. The School is now expanding its undergraduate provision to offer single honours degrees. It has also recently restructured into four divisions that cluster together our growing expertise in programmes of delivery in, Criminology, Psychology and Psychotherapy, Social Work and Social Policy, and Sociology and Politics.

Divisions Division of Criminology

The Criminology division offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminology and substance misuse interventions including:

BA (Hons) Criminology

BA (Hons) Criminology and Social Policy

BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology

BA (Hons) Criminology and Substance Misuse Interventions

MA Criminology and Criminal Justice

We also contribute a half-degree to LLB Law with Criminology.

Division of Psychology and Psychotherapy

The Division offers a range of BPS accredited undergraduate degrees and BACP and UKCP accredited postgraduate professional training programmes including:

BSc (Hons) Applied Psychology (from 2015)

BA (Hons) Applied Psychology and Criminology

BA (Hons) Applied Psychology and Sociology

MA Community Psychology

Postgraduate Diploma in Humanistic Therapeutic Counselling Postgraduate Diploma in Psycho-dynamic Therapeutic Counselling MSc Psychotherapy

Division of Social Work and Social Policy

The Division offers undergraduate and postgraduate College of Social Work endorsed and Health and Care Professions Council approved social work training courses; undergraduate social policy and social science degrees and postgraduate and post registration professional development courses including:

BA (Hons) Applied Social Science (Hastings)

BA (Hons) Social Science

BSc (Hons) Social Work

BA (Hons) Sociology and Social Policy

MPA (Masters in Public Administration)

MSc in Social Work

MSc Advanced Social Work

PGDip Approved Mental Health Practice

PGDIp/PGCert Professional Social Work Practice

MSc Mental Health

Division of Sociology and Politics

The Division offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:

BA (Hons) Sociology

BA (Hons) Politics and Social Policy

BA (Hons) Politics and Sociology

MRes (Social Research)

We also contribute a half degree in sociology to a range of courses to the Hastings Campus Joint Honours programme (see http://www.brighton.ac.uk/hastings/).

Research

We deliver innovative education and research across a range of social sciences and professional areas and our research culture is represented by a major research centre and three research groups (see below). In 2004 the school moved into a new £13 million purpose-designed building, Mayfield House and is now co-located with several other research centres and with the Brighton and Sussex Medical School http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sass.

Our work aims to develop and apply innovative theoretical and methodological inter-disciplinary analyses to contemporary policy and practice. Within the local and regional community the school is a significant resource for research, consultancy, and continuing professional development to public services including local government, health authorities and trusts, and social care organisations in the statutory, voluntary and independent sectors. http://www.brighton.ac.uk/sass/research. We also have an established national and growing international reputation with an approximate annual research turnover of £300,000 and aim to grow this to £500,000 per annum. We have a thriving research student division within the Brighton Doctoral College. Our research is supported by a British Council sponsored link with Chi Nan National University in Taiwan, collaboration with universities in Sweden and Spain. We also provide a focus for the Community University Partnership Project which supports a wide range of community development activities and research http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cupp/.

Research within the school is organised through the Social Science, Policy and Research Centre (SSPARC) which also secures commissions, often through successful competitive bidding, and is highly regarded for the relevance and quality of its research reports. The school is organised into research programmes, establishing three groupings through which research development is directed:

·  Care, Health and Well-being

·  Crime, Resistance and Security

·  Culture, Identity and Society.

The centre has a number of staff leading on the strategic development of our research output, including Peter Squires, Professor of Criminology and Public Policy, Marian Barnes, Professor of Social Policy and Flis Henwood, Professor of Social Informatics. Dr Michael Cahill holds a Readership in Social Policy, Dr Mark Erickson and Mr Mark Bhatti hold Readerships in Sociology, Dr Lynda Measor a Readership in Applied Social Science and Dr Paula Wilcox a Readership in Criminology. Peter Dickens holds a long term Visiting Professorship and there are a number of School Fellows who make a significant contribution to research culture, including Professor John Lea and Professor Di Waller. SSPARC has links with many other research bodies including the Trust for the Study of Adolescence. Recent funding sources for research in the school include the ESRC, the AHRC, the EPSRC, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Department of Health, the NHS, the European Union, the Social Exclusion Unit, and the Gulbenkian Foundation. The SSPARC runs regular seminars and conferences. The school also houses the University of Brighton Social Science Forum which runs regular in-house seminars and an annual public lecture as part of the Brighton Festival.

Twenty four (full time equivalent) research active staff were returned in a submission to UoA 40 in the 2008 RAE. Over 90% of work was considered to be internationally recognised with a staff grade point average (GPA) of 2.25 achieved. Research income over the assessment period totalled just over £2 million from a range of international, national and regional funding sources.

Partnerships and links

The school has close associations with local and regional agencies through teaching and research. Staff research links complement international student exchanges in sociology, criminology, social policy, social work and community psychology and staff regularly deliver papers at international conferences. The school works closely with a number of other schools across the university, including delivering the LLB Law with Criminology in partnership with Brighton Business School. We are also committed to a local and regional role in community development and regeneration and, as a result, are expanding our work at the Hastings Campus.

Staff Development

The university’s staff development policy encourages staff to develop their academic, technical and professional expertise. The school currently awards two one-semester sabbaticals each year for scholarly research, and shorter periods of teaching relief to support specific research outputs. It also supports staff to enhance their teaching and learning expertise and professional practice. All teaching staff are encouraged to continuously review and improve their teaching methods. A wide range of development opportunities, which are continuously reviewed to meet new demands, are available to all staff including, computing short courses, management training, learning and teaching qualifications and research supervision. Academic staff are encouraged to attend conferences where appropriate and all staff are able to apply for a tuition fee waiver in order to attend part-time courses at the universities of Brighton and Sussex and City College Brighton and Hove.

Location

The school is based at the Falmer campus of the university, approximately five miles from the centre of Brighton and Hove linked to frequent train and bus services. Falmer is a site of outstanding natural beauty on the edge of the South Downs.

Job Sharing The University of Brighton welcomes job sharers. Job sharing is a way of working where two people share one full-time job, dividing the work, responsibilities, pay, holidays and other benefits between them proportionate to the hours each works, thereby increasing access to a wide range of jobs on a part-time basis.

Potential job sharers do not have to apply with a partner. However, if a post is to be operated as a job share there must be at least two suitable applicants who wish to share the job.

A job share appointment will only be made if it has been demonstrated that both shortlisted applicants can do the job to the required standards and within a working pattern of hours that is agreeable to all parties. If one applicant is unsuitable, neither can be appointed unless an alternative potential job sharer has been shortlisted.

When applying as a job sharer please indicate this at the top of page 3 on the application form. We will need to know if you are applying with a job share partner and the name of that person. Also if the post is full-time but open to job sharers it would be useful if you could indicate whether you would be interested in the post on a full-time basis if no suitable partner can be found. If you have indicated that you would be willing to take up the position on a full-time basis then the normal recruitment procedure will be followed.

If you are interested in appointment on a job share basis, please contact Human Resources for a copy of the university's policy, procedure and guidelines for job sharing. Alternatively staff in Human Resources will be happy to answer any queries you may have.

The Job We are seeking a new colleague to complement the expertise of our dynamic staff team. We will require you to have a solid commitment to students’ learning and development and to make a lively contribution to teaching and research in core curriculum areas in criminology; you will also have ample opportunity to teach and develop your own research-based specialism. Applicants with expertise in policing and/or security are particularly welcome. You will have a good (1 or 2:1) degree, preferably in criminology or a related/combined social science discipline and ideally a PhD (or nearly completed) or equivalent professional qualifications. A firm record (or evidence of an ability to develop one) in national and international outputs is essential.

The range of duties of a university lecturer is extensive and diverse. The following summary indicates the nature of this range. Almost all academic staff will be expected to contribute to both the teaching and the research activity of their subject area. At Senior Lecturer level (AC3), staff are expected to be engaged in the planning, design and leadership of teaching and research activity, and to be making wider contributions to the work of their school and the university.

Teaching and Scholarship

A Lecturer (AC2) is expected to possess, develop and utilise a range of teaching methods and ways of supporting student learning. These may include: lectures, seminars, tutorials, forms of e-learning, workshops, laboratory classes and individual supervision.

The role requires the ability to: identify the learning needs of students and to define appropriate learning objectives; ensure that the teaching content, methods of delivery and learning materials are appropriate; develop own teaching materials, under guidance; select appropriate types of formative assessment; seek ways of improving teaching performance by self-reflection and the gathering and analysis of student feedback, and teach as a member of a team within the framework of an established course. An understanding of equal opportunities issues with regard to academic content and teaching delivery is also expected.

In addition a Senior Lecturer (Ac3) is expected to be able to design teaching materials, identify areas where current provision is in need of revision or improvement, supervise student projects, field trips and placement activity.

Research and Scholarship

A Lecturer is expected to: continually update their disciplinary and/or professional knowledge and understanding; develop personal (and, where appropriate, collaborative) research objectives; write up research work for publication; translate new subject knowledge into teaching content; and reflect on their own practice as a higher education teacher. Engagement in continuous professional development with regard to disciplinary/professional and pedagogic expertise is required.

In addition a Senior Lecturer should: disseminate research findings and outputs at conferences and similar events and identify and seek sources of external funding for their own scholarly activity.

Communication

A Lecturer should be able to: deal with routine communication using a range of media; communicate complex information orally, in writing and electronically and communicate material of a specialist or highly technical nature.

In addition a Senior Lecturer will be capable of: routinely communicating complex and conceptual ideas to those with limited knowledge and understanding, as well as to peers, and preparing proposals and applications to external bodies, e.g. for funding and accreditation purposes.

Liaison and Networking

A Lecturer is expected to : liaise effectively with colleagues and students; build internal contacts and participate in internal information exchange networks, and join external networks to share ideas.

In addition a Senior Lecturer will be able to develop external networks in such areas as: identifying sources of funding; student recruitment; student placements; outreach and marketing activity, and obtaining consultancy projects.

Managing People

A Lecturer will be able to agree and largely self-manage teaching, research and administrative activities.

In addition a Senior Lecturer will be expected to: advise and support less experienced colleagues; in certain circumstances supervise the work of others in research teams or as a research supervisor, and coordinate the work of colleagues, for example when acting as a module leader.

Teamwork

A Lecturer is expected to: collaborate with academic colleagues on course development, curriculum changes and the development of research; attend and contribute to subject group and similar meetings, and collaborate with colleagues across the university to identify and respond to students’ needs.

In addition a Senior Lecturer may be required to act as a team leader in a small scale project.

Pastoral Care

A Lecturer/Senior Lecturer will be expected to: act as a personal tutor; use listening, interpersonal and pastoral care skills to deal with sensitive issues concerning students, appreciate the needs of individual students and their circumstances, and to refer students as appropriate to the specialist services which can provide further help.

Initiative, Problem-solving and Decision Making

A Lecturer will be able to: develop and apply initiative, creativity and judgement in the conduct of teaching and research; respond effectively to pedagogical and practical challenges, and contribute to decision making on, and share responsibility for, the academic content, delivery and assessment of modules.