Cardiff Metropolitan University
Senior Lecturer in Law
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Cardiff School of Management
Cardiff School of Management is located in a state-of-the-art facility close to the heart of the capital city, the University offers a diverse portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Law sits within the School and plays a central role in delivering the ambitions of the University’s Strategic Plan (Strategy 2030).
CSM is an ambitious, accredited provider of Business and Management education. State-of-the-art facilities on the Llandaff Campus provide an encouraging and creative learning environment, showcasing the School as a leading centre in the UK for Accounting, Economics and Finance; Business, Management and Law; Marketing and Strategy; and Tourism, Hospitality and Events Management. Staff are rightly proud of their significant contribution to regional regeneration and economic growth through teaching, enterprise work and applied research.
In 2024, the School became the first University in Wales and just the third in the UK to receive the Business School Impact System (BSIS) label from the European Foundation for Management Development for the positive economic impact the School has on the Cardiff Capital Region.
The School is proud of the role it plays in delivering programmes around the world. With around 10,000 students studying management programmes at our international TNE partners, the School makes a positive difference to the life chances of students and communities around the globe.
Role
Cardiff School of Management’s Department of Business, Management and Law is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Law with a strong criminology profile and a clear socio-legal and doctrinal focus. This is a strategically important appointment that will strengthen the Department’s growing provision at the intersection of law, criminology, justice and public policy.
The Department delivers a range of highly successful law programmes, including the LLB (Hons), BA (Hons) Law and Criminology, BA (Hons) Business Law and Management, and a Foundation in Legal Studies pathway. In 2024, the Department launched the CSM Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, providing students with supervised opportunities to deliver legal advice and assistance in a real-world setting. Teaching across the Department prioritises employability, professional skills and personal development, while situating law firmly within its broader social, political and criminological contexts. This approach enables students to critically engage with law’s role in shaping justice, inequality and social outcomes.
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The successful candidate will be a criminology-informed legal scholar, able to contribute to undergraduate teaching across law and criminology programmes, with particular strength in areas that explore crime, justice and regulation from a legal perspective. They will be expected to support curriculum development, contribute to research and scholarship, and enhance the Department’s applied and socially engaged teaching ethos.
Principal Duties And Responsibilities
- Contribute to teaching across a range of undergraduate modules, with teaching and research interests aligned to one or more of the following areas:
- Punishment and Justice
- Access to Justice
- Criminal Justice and Legal Responses to Crime
- Family Law and Social Justice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Legal and Professional Skills
- Terrorism, Radicalisation and Violence
- International and Comparative Law and Systems
- Supervision of final year dissertations or projects.
- Make a significant contribution to the delivery of our taught portfolio contributing to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in our Law provision and other areas of our core curriculum depending on your areas of expertise and experience.
- Be enthusiastic about student-centred pedagogy, and contribute to education delivery, including programme management as required, across the range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
- Contribute to employability, and professional engagement with relevant internal and external organisations, at a regional, national and international level.
- Contribute to the research profile of the department and to meet the qualitative and quantitative requirements for submission to the next Research Excellence Framework.
- Contribute to PG research supervision.
What We Are Looking For
- A Masters (LLM/MA/MRes) or equivalent qualification in Law or Criminology/Criminal Justice or a related discipline.
- An in-depth knowledge of subject and professional area of Law, Criminology /Criminal Justice or a related discipline.
- Successful experience of HE Law teaching/professional practice or equivalent and demonstrated competence to teach principles of legal professional conduct on related programmes.
- A good honours degree.
- An in-depth understanding of pedagogy.
- An in-depth understanding of research/enterprise and scholarly activity.
- Ability to design, develop and deliver a range of programmes at various levels.
- Ability to review programme design on a regular basis to ensure compliance with quality standards and academic regulations and to make alterations where appropriate.
- Ability to contribute to the achievement of the School Development Plan and the institutions strategic planning processes.
- Ability to develop research objectives, prepare proposals, carry out independent research, referee and contribute to peer assessment.
- Ability to identify opportunities for strategic development/improvement e.g. research projects, new courses, consultancy.
- Ability to identify (through the analysis of appropriate management information) areas requiring improved performance e.g. student numbers, student satisfaction.
- Experience of providing academic leadership and first line support/mentoring for other colleagues.
- Experience of engaging in pedagogic and practitioner research.
- Ability to achieve Fellow Status as part of the Higher Education Academy’s Professional Recognition scheme, within agreed timescales (as soon as is practicably possible and definitely within three years of commencement of employment).
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Contact Us
If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Angela Joseph, Head of Department, at ajoseph@cardiffmet.ac.uk for further information about working with us at our University please visit our recruitment website.
All applications must be submitted online.
The person specification will be used as a tool for shortlisting; so please make sure you use this information when writing your application. You can find useful hints and tips about how to apply by visiting our Application Guidance page.
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