Lecturer

University of Essex; Colchester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Essex Law School is recruiting a lecturer to join our diverse community of scholars, dedicated to delivering engaging and innovative curriculum in the foundations of legal knowledge and beyond. The appointee will teach undergraduate and postgraduate courses, provide supervision and feedback, and support experiential learning and administrative duties on campus.

Applicants should hold a doctoral-level research degree or be close to completion, with a law degree at undergraduate/postgraduate

Qualifications

• PhD or near completion in law, or an equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience teaching undergraduate and/or postgraduate students.
• Commitment to engaging, innovative curriculum for diverse student body.

Responsibilities

• Deliver teaching in the compulsory areas of the undergraduate curriculum, foundations of legal knowledge.
• Contribute to teaching in other areas of the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum.
• Provide supervision, assessment and feedback to learners; supervise student projects.
• Support experiential learning programmes and undertake administrative duties.

Skills

Teaching experience

Legal research

Curriculum development

PhD or near completion

Education

Doctoral level research degree or equivalent

Undergraduate/postgraduate degree in law (or equivalent)

Job description

Department

Ranked 3rd in the UK for Research Power (Times Higher Education research power measure, Research Excellence Framework 2021), Essex Law School is recognised across the world for taking excellence in research and excellence in education equally seriously.

The School promotes equality, diversity and inclusivity in all aspects of its work.

Essex Law School offers a wide range of courses to students with a blend of experiential learning. Alongside our single-honours LLB, we deliver joint LLBs with various other subjects such as human rights, philosophy, business, finance, and criminology and run an award-winning LLB Licence English and French Law (Double Degree).

At the postgraduate level, we offer a general LLM and courses in subjects including international law, international commercial and business law, law and technology, law, environment and sustainability, and human rights (both LLM and interdisciplinary MA).

Duties of the Role

Essex Law School is recruiting a lecturer to join our diverse community of scholars, who will be able to contribute to teaching in the compulsory areas of our undergraduate curriculum, particularly the foundations of legal knowledge subjects. The appointee will demonstrate a commitment to providing an engaging, innovative curriculum that meets the modern needs of our diverse student body in a campus-based environment.

An ability to contribute to teaching in other areas of the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum is essential. The successful candidate will deliver substantive, effective and engaging teaching, supervision and learning support to our students, select appropriate methods of assessment and feedback to learners, supervise student projects, support experiential learning programmes, and undertake administrative duties.

Skills and qualifications required

Applicants will have a relevant doctoral level research degree or equivalent professional experience/practice or be close to completion of a PhD, as well as having an undergraduate/postgraduate degree in law (or equivalent professional experience).

They will have experience in teaching at undergraduate/postgraduate levels, or demonstrable potential to contribute to teaching and learning support in engaging and innovative ways.

We particularly welcome applications from those from an ethnic minority as they are under-represented in the School of Law.

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£47,389 to £56,535 per annum