Chair in Law

Location: Birmingham or Dubai

Closes: 01.07.2024 

Role Summary

Birmingham Law School is seeking to appoint a professor in any area of Law, although we have a preference for someone with research and/or teaching expertise/experience in Commercial Law, Private Law (broadly defined) and Labour/Employment Law. The post holder will provide significant strategic leadership which will positively enhance the profile of the institution. The post holder will be expected to have an excellent international reputation, based on an extensive track record of innovative research which has a major quantifiable influence in the subject area. You will also make a significant contribution to teaching and learning, contribute at a high level to leadership and management activity and act as a role model in respect of citizenship.

Role description

Research

• Develop, plan and lead research activities/programmes of outstanding quality in the disciplinary area;
• Publish high quality innovative, distinctive and significant outputs which are considered to be world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour;
• Regularly contribute to other research-related activities such as conference papers and keynote speaker invitations at conferences;
• As appropriate for the discipline, lead a major research group, managing people and resources to deliver an ambitious research vision;
• May lead consultancy projects and/or advise external organisations, based on research and reputation in the subject area;

Education

• Develop, plan and lead high quality education activities;
• Develop high quality, inclusive and academically challenging practice in research-intensive teaching, learning and assessment;
• Deliver high quality portfolio of innovative, engaging and inspirational teaching which is accessible to all;
• Contribute to curriculum design to ensure the offer is contemporary, inclusive, engaging, international and academically challenging;

Leadership, Management and Citizenship 

• Lead and manage major activities in the School/College/University. This may be in relation to one or more of the following:
• External partnership activities/collaborations;
• Using position and influence in order to ensure that others engage positively with the University’s Strategy;
• Leading, developing and motivating colleagues using mentoring and coaching skills;
• Proactively supporting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion activities.

Person Specification

The post holder will have an outstanding and sustained profile of achievement evidenced by the following:

• PhD or equivalent qualification or an equivalent body of work;
• A substantial record of international quality outputs;
• An excellent and widely recognised reputation amongst peers internationally;
• Proven ability to plan and lead the delivery of research;
• A sustained record of attracting significant funding, as appropriate to the discipline;
• A track record in translating research into impact on other scholars and on the wider community through publication, engagement with policy and practice, consultancy and advisory work;
• A track record of attracting and successfully supervising high quality doctoral students;
• Willingness to engage in teaching-related CPD;
• Evidence of proactively engaging in citizenship activities;
• Evidence of working with others for the greater good of the academic discipline and institution.

All applications will be assessed against the person specification.

Enquiries – Professor Nelson Enonchong, Deputy Dean of School, n.e.enonchong@bham.ac.uk

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