Lecturer in Law

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspirational and motivated lecturer to join the growing and vibrant Law team within the School of Business and Law at The University of Brighton. We are a University that is proud of its reputation for producing highly employable and adaptable graduates and postgraduates.  

We are seeking to appoint a lecturer to our diverse community of staff, who will be able to contribute to teaching on our Law courses.  We are looking for experience in teaching Law with a focus on at least one of the Foundations of Legal Knowledge.  The successful candidate will deliver innovative and engaging teaching, supervision and learning support to our students across the subject area.  

We require a commitment to educating students at undergraduate and postgraduate level using a mixture of traditional and innovative teaching methods, in particular we require a track record of teaching in a blended learning environment.  

The successful candidate would be expected to have research potential as well as a relevant degree and postgraduate qualifications in the subject area.  

It is expected that you will actively engage in research and scholarship. If you have a PhD and can supervise at this level, you will have opportunities to develop as the University has an active programme for supporting early career researchers. 

We offer a wide range of benefits, such as a generous annual leave package, and travel loan schemes.

Please note this is a 6 month post to cover a period of maternity leave.  Applicants will be expected to start within 4 weeks of the interview date due to the length of this contract.

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The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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