The Department of Criminology is seeking to appoint two outstanding and enthusiastic scholars to join a Department committed to theoretically-informed, critical and multidisciplinary research and high-quality teaching of students from diverse backgrounds. The Department of Criminology, formed in 2017 and housed in the School of Law, has a strong tradition of critical criminological scholarship and enjoys a growing international research profile.

You will be required to contribute to the Department’s taught and research degree programmes, teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and assisting in development of our Masters-level programmes and in developing our provision of short courses focused on professional development and contemporary issues in criminology and criminal justice.

We would particularly welcome applications from those with research expertise in the following areas: Specialist knowledge in one of the following areas: decolonial or southern perspectives; digital criminology; critical psychosocial criminology; critical disability and/or mental health; race, racism and crime/criminal justice; urban criminology (especially issues of gentrification and poverty and urban disorder and social control); prisons and prison abolition; political economy; state crime; media/social media and culture.

Candidates should have completed or be near to completion of a PhD (or equivalent qualification) and show evidence of published research or exceptional potential. All academic staff within the Department are required (subject to assigned duties) to contribute to teaching, scholarship, and published research relating to both undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes, as well as to undertake effectively their assigned administrative duties.

One post will start in September 2019 and another will start in January 2020.