Senior Lecturer in Criminology

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

The Department of Sociology and Criminology has established an international reputation as a centre of excellence in the research and education. The Department has been ranked 5th

nationally and 1st in London in the 2021 REF. It offers an exceptional and varied programme of study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and runs a well-established PhD programme. The Department is home to high-profile research centres including: the Centre for Justice Reform; the European Social Survey (ESS) centre, the Violence and Society Centre, the Work and Society Centre, and the new Centre for Online-Safety, Safeguarding, Privacy and Identity (COSPI). The Department also hosts the City Q-Step Centre, which delivers specialist undergraduate quantitative programmes. For more information on the courses and modules we currently provide please see our website

Responsibilities

The post holder will contribute to the development and the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate criminology degrees with a focus on corporate/institutional crime or eco-global crime. They will also undertake doctoral supervision and contribute to the research profile of the Department.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Criminology or a relevant field. They will have a track record of innovative teaching and facilitating learning and of publishing high quality, impactful research on corporate crime commensurate with their career stage.

Additional Information

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

Closing date for applications: 30th September 2024 at 11:59pm.

The selection process will involve an interview and an presentation.

Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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